Town hall Rain (Lech)

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Town hall in Rain
South view with the dwelling

The town hall in Rain , a town in the Donau-Ries district in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , was built between 1759 and 1762. The rococo- style town hall at Hauptstraße 60 is a protected monument .

History and description

The elongated, two-story saddle roof building with a curved volute gable has a gable tower above the flat risaliten . On the south side there is a three-storey dwelling with a battlemented gable . The building is richly structured with pilaster strips , cornices and window frames.

Since the premises were no longer sufficient due to the growth of the city, the subsequent so-called "Altherr House", acquired in 1880, was gradually included in the use of the city administration from the 1950s to 1975. This three-storey house, built in 1600, is named after its previous owner, the wax puller and mayor (1836–1842) Josef Altherr, and is one of the oldest and most stately buildings in the old town.

With the formation of the Rain administrative community on May 1, 1978, the complex had become scarce again, which is why the city had an extension building adapted to the facade from 1985 to 1987 and then (1987-1989) renovated the town hall and the Altherr House. The Munich architect Erwin Schleich planned the general renovation and expansion .

A property acquired by the communities of Genderkingen , Holzheim , Münster and Niederschönenfeld in Rain, Münchner Straße 42, was occupied on April 1, 2019 as the second building of the Rain administrative community; since then, only the city administration has been housed in the town hall.

Film set

The director Franz Xaver Bogner shot the exterior shots of his series Der Kaiser von Schexing in Rain ; the outer facade of the Schexingen town hall is the real town hall.

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Commons : Rathaus Rain (Lech)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 23.9 "  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 53.2"  E