Schneeberg town hall
| Schneeberg town hall | |
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.jpg) View from the market square (2011) |
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| Data | |
| place | Schneeberg , right on the market |
| Construction year | 1842, 1852, 1859, 1912 |
| height | 32 m |
| Floor space | 1000 m² |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 35 '43.4 " N , 12 ° 38' 27.8" E |
| particularities | |
| Neo-Gothic with Italian influences (outside), Art Nouveau (inside) | |
The town hall of the town of Schneeberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains District was completed in 1852 and then redesigned several times. The building is the seat of the city administration and the third town hall building in the history of the city. Since 2006, one is porcelain - chime in its tower.
history
Precursors
A first administrative building for the councilors of Schneeberg was started in 1527 according to plans and under the direction of the city architect Fabian Lobwasser, interrupted during a city fire in 1543 and completed in 1548. The building was erected in the Baroque style on the southern edge of the large market . Materials from the quarry on the Keilberg and from the Sieben Feldern as well as tailor-made stones from a quarry near Planitz were used for the construction . In 1548 the expansion of the office building was not yet completed, in 1551 and 1552 there was further documented work on the building. The tower was completed in 1579. With the "Council Constitution" put into effect by Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony in 1665, Schneeberg received town charter.
In the town hall there was a pharmacy , a tax collection office , a mining office , a society and concert hall , a drinking room , the district court , the council scales (to control the trading activities on the market square) and the prison . Small sales facilities were housed on the ground floor.
After the house was destroyed in the great city fire in 1719 , the citizens of the city had it rebuilt on the previous foundation walls in Baroque style by 1723 . It had on the South and on the north side in each case a central biaxial projections with a bay window conclusion on the second floor. The roof is designed hipped with two rows of dormers. The hexagonal tower ended in decorative gables , between which a lantern with a vaulted roof formed the tower end. A fire on November 8, 1849 led to the building being completely destroyed again.
New building
It was decided to build a larger and more representative town hall in the neo-Gothic style at the old location and with the previous floor plan . The construction work undertaken under the direction of Johann Anton Wetzel was completed in 1852. In the years 1910–1912, the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner redesigned the interior in the Art Nouveau style, which was popular at the time. The market and the council building were spared when the city was bombed at the end of the Second World War .
Today (as of spring 2012) there is a citizens' office , the registry office , the public order office , a tourist information office and the council cellar in the Schneeberg town hall .
Architecture and equipment
The floor area of the town hall is 40 by 25 meters. There is an entrance each in the north and south and a side entrance in the west. The building was built on three floors above a basement and has a central clock tower . The facade is made of pastel-colored plaster with white pilaster strips . The basic building of the town hall has a cornice running completely around the structure below the rows of windows on the first and second floors. Due to the sloping ground, the town hall has smaller windows on the north side on the ground floor. The building ensemble with its interior is a listed building .
The town hall tower with a rectangular base area of around 5 by 7 meters strives centrally above the south wing of the building to a height of 32 meters. A colored, relief-like city coat of arms is attached to the facade under the balcony on the tower front , which was cast in the iron foundry Lattermann in Morgenröthe in 1852 and cost 1,323 marks . It was not painted in color until later. In 2006 a carillon was installed in the balcony tower room and officially put into operation. The rectangular tower extends up to about 15 meters in height, where it is bordered by a four-sided open gallery. After that it continues as a symmetrical octagonal narrower tower, in the walls of which pointed arch windows and a tower clock visible on four sides with a striking mechanism of three bronze bells are incorporated. The tower has an upper end crenellated handling and centrally from a with copper sheet clad conical roof completed.
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Above the arched entrance portal on the south side, the legend of the foundation of Schneeberg is depicted on a sandstone relief in a cartouche . A miner (with a chew and a "chunk of iron stone" in his hands) complains to a thirsty and hungry hiker (with a pig ) that the mining brings hardly anything. The depiction is framed by two lace-making putti .
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In the entrance area there is a drinking fountain designed with blue and orange ceramics . The entrance hall is dominated by the monumental staircase with wrought iron railing. It leads up to the second floor and ends in a colored coffered ceiling , donated by the city councilors W. Brückner and G. Ebert and the bookseller K. Schmeil and made to designs by Josef Goller from Dresden. On the first floor there is, among other things, the registry office and the "Hall of the City Councilors", into which a dark-tinted oak door with sparse carving leads. The large council chamber is clad with stained panels , has pastel-colored stained glass windows and a painting by Carl Lange from Chemnitz, which shows the Neustädter Bergaufzug , the foundation of today's district of Johanngeorgenstadt. The hall is used not only for meetings of the city administration but also for cultural events. The wooden “wedding door” is also sparsely decorated. There is a carved city coat of arms above it.
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Other decorative elements in the corridors such as doors, stucco ceilings or windows are mainly made in Art Nouveau style. The delicate colored floral representations are particularly striking. Craftsmen's guilds, associations and wealthy citizens contributed to the financing and design through donations.
Town hall carillon
The porcelain glockenspiel in the town hall tower was inaugurated in connection with the 525th anniversary of the city charter and the 510th day of the mountain battle on July 22nd, 2006 and was named "Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld Glockenspiel". This honored the merits of Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld in the development of the Ore Mountains region. The basis was the purchase of a complete set of 25 bells made of Meissen porcelain in 1961 by the Schneeberg city administration. They have now been combined into an ensemble comprising 24 bells with a range in two octaves. The carillon was partly financed by donations. Signs about the creation and with the names of all donors are located in the foyer of the town hall.
Surroundings
Immediately in front of the portal to the town hall, modern benches were set up around several ground-level fountains in the center. The initially green space with an area of about 115 × 115 × 50 meters (almost triangular) is used twice a week for its original purpose as a marketplace with mobile sales stands. In the 1940s there were still two deciduous trees in the middle. During the Advent season, the Schneeberg Christmas market takes place here, where the Christmas pyramid is set up and artists or musicians occasionally perform.
Around the renovated market, some historical and listed buildings have been preserved, such as the Brotmännelhaus (18th century), the Jungnickelhaus or the Bockhaus (1725).
The back of the town hall borders on Fürstenplatz with other renovated historical buildings.
Literature and Sources
- Information board at the Schneeberg town hall on the building (as of April 2011)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Uwe Gehrig (Ed.): Schneeberg , Ruth Gehrig Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-928275-38-0 ; Pages 36-39
- ↑ Mining legend in the Western Ore Mountains. Here: How the city of Schneeberg came into being , accessed on April 10, 2012
- ↑ The planting can be seen on two postcards from 1930 and 1940 offered in auctions (April 2012).
- ↑ Picture from the Christmas concert on the Schneeberger Marktplatz in 1992 on meinestadt.de , accessed on April 10, 2912