City Hall Stadtilm
The town hall of the small town Stadtilm in the Ilm district of Thuringia is in the street of the unit .
history
Today as city hall used building was in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, involving masonry of walls and preserved buildings of 1274 to Arnstadt laid Cistercian monastery as alimony for the black burg Prince Ludwig Günther and Albert Gunther , brothers of the reigning Count Karl Guenther , has been built. Although after 1625 the castle was only used temporarily by the count's family, its structural maintenance continued. In 1735 a chapel was consecrated on the upper floor . Partly destroyed after the city fire of 1780, the building was sold to the royal court chamber in Rudolstadt in 1811 . From then on the building was used in different ways. Another fire in 1897 caused great damage to the former castle. After its reconstruction in 1899, the local government purchased the building in 1918 to use it as a town hall.
Building description
The former castle was built as a plastered building with two storeys on a rectangular floor plan . The south-facing facade is dominated by five high gables , which are closed at the top by so-called Venetian battlements . Each gable is emphasized on the sides by brick masonry . The upper third of each gable panel is by cornices horizontal and Pilaster divided vertically. Is an octagonal front of the building on the eastern side of the facade stair tower with verschieferter hood . The high octagonal tower on a square base comes from the city fortifications on the narrow western side. He received his tent roof in 1899. In the western part of the building was the former refectory of the monastery. The eastern yoke of the hall was built around 1300, the western yokes date from around 1500.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 , pp. 1177–78.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 27.5 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 42.8" E