Town hall Pegau
The Pegau town hall is a striking Renaissance building in Pegau in the Leipzig district in Saxony and is used by the city administration and as the seat of the city museum. The Ratskeller restaurant is located on the ground floor . The tower is used as a lookout tower in summer.
history
The town hall in Pegau is a valuable Renaissance building alongside the market square with a central tower, which was built in 1559 by the builder Paul Widemann based on a design by Hieronymus Lotter . The once existing dwelling houses were demolished after fires in 1644 and 1670. The great hall was relocated in 1845, the interior was completely rebuilt in 1899/1900 and a staircase was added to the rear. Restorations took place in 1960 and 1993.
architecture
The arrangement with the longitudinal building and tower unmistakably shows the model of the old town hall in Leipzig from 1556. The stately, two-story building is equipped with a tower protruding to the market side on a square floor plan, which merges into an octagon on the upper floors and with a hood and Lantern is complete. Large, not regularly distributed rectangular windows, twisted into a parallelogram on the tower , with profiled walls made of porphyry tuff illuminate the interior. A strong cornice made of brick with small brick consoles divides the building. Magnificent Renaissance portals with semicircular closed arches are arranged under the entablature supported by fluted pilasters . An asymmetrical double portal can be found on the tower, the left entrance of which (which leads to the stairs) is equipped with seating niches. This double portal is decorated with medallion portraits and a crowning coat of arms from the Electorate of Saxony and was renewed around 1900. Another seat niche portal with the dates 1561 and 1900 is provided with the Pegau city coat of arms.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 792.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the city of Pegau with information about the town hall. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 0.3 ″ N , 12 ° 15 ′ 19.1 ″ E