Pirna town hall
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The Pirna Town Hall is a renaissance building that was later rebuilt several times on the market square of the town of Pirna in Saxony . It is the headquarters of the city administration and shapes the cityscape of the old town of Pirna.
history
The town hall in Pirna is a free-standing building in the middle of the market in the Renaissance style and was rebuilt in Baroque style. An extension took place in the style of the German Neo-Renaissance. The town hall in Pirna is one of the oldest buildings in town, it was first mentioned in 1386. After a fire it was built in 1486 as a new building in the late Gothic style; the main portal on the east side bears witness to this. In the years 1555/1558 the three-storey building was fundamentally converted by Wolf Blechschmidt . The characteristic Renaissance gables, the window frames and the cornices that structure the building have been preserved from this renovation.
After another fire in 1581, the building was restored until around 1597. The council scales in the west, probably from around 1600, received its gable in 1611/1612. In 1718 and 1819 the roof turret over the east end of the south wing was renewed. For centuries the town hall was more a trading house than an administrative building. It offered the butchers, bakers and cloth makers permanent sales stands and rooms. It also housed the council chamber as well as archive and combing rooms. With the introduction of the Saxon City Code (1832), the administration's space requirements increased, so that the meat banks were demolished by Georg Aster in 1878 and replaced on the west and north side by an extension in the neo-renaissance style. Up until the beginning of the 20th century, stores and shops were on the ground floor. The building was completely renovated between 1991 and 1997 as part of the urban redevelopment.
architecture
The older part of the town hall with a hook-shaped floor plan consisting of two interpenetrating wings is still determined by the renovation by Wolf Blechschmidt. This part is characterized by smooth wall surfaces and narrow cornices on which the profiled windows are arranged. The multi-level volute gables are provided with fluted pilaster strips. Above the east gable of the south wing is the tower-like roof turret with a repeatedly renewed astronomical clock with a moon-phase display above it. Below is the city coat of arms. In it, the left lion strikes every quarter of an hour and the right lion strikes the tree with its paws every hour when the bell strikes. Both lions move their tongues to do this. The east side of the clock still has a Renaissance dial, with the long hand showing the hours and the small hand showing the minutes. The eight-sided helmet with a double lantern ends in a slim onion hood .
On the east side is the main entrance with a flat frame by an aedicule with fluted pilasters and a crown with dolphins around the relief with the city coat of arms and the monogram FH in the gable. The portal itself, as well as the lateral entrances with grooved walls and interpenetrating bars, belong to the latest Gothic. The coat of arms of the Electorate of Saxony from the earlier bay window, which was created by Nickel Leffer in 1577, is located below the second floor.
The long side of the south wing, which was heavily modified in 1822, is provided with an arbor , the four pillars of which come from the protective roof for the shops on the east side of the town hall. The relief portrait of Mayor Lorenz Fuchs from the year 1551 from the house at Am Markt 19 is attached above the ground floor . A cast-iron coat of arms from 1686 is placed between the first and second floors.
The new part of the town hall was built in 1879 with the inclusion of the former city scales and is rusticated in the basement, with a flat central projecting crowned by a gable on the north side. The coupled pairs of windows on the ground floor are arched, those on the upper floor are rectangular with strongly profiled triangular gables. The volute gables are designed based on the old part of the town hall.
The interior has been largely changed. A barrel-vaulted room in the eastern part of the south wing with high slits of light, possibly earlier the drinking room, dates from the late Middle Ages. In the north half of the east wing there is a room on the ground floor with a wide-span parallel rib vault.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 702–703.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the town hall on the website of the city of Pirna. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 45 ″ N , 13 ° 56 ′ 31.1 ″ E