Town hall Stendal
The Stendal Town Hall is a historic building in the Hanseatic city of Stendal . The building essentially dates from the 15th century and was rebuilt and renewed several times in the following centuries. Together with the Marienkirche, the town hall forms an unmistakable ensemble in Stendal.
history
The Stendal town hall was first mentioned in 1188 as Domus mercatorum and was opened in 1243 by the margraves Johann I and Otto III. ceded to the city. The court arbor was mentioned in a document in 1345.
The entire town hall building has been structurally changed again and again since the second half of the 19th century, for example in the years 1885–1887. When the courtyard facade was renewed between 1898 and 1900, eight new windows were created. The interior was restored in 1933–40.
On May 3rd and 4th, 1945 negotiations between German and American officers about a surrender of the German 9th and 12th Army to the US Army took place in the Stendal town hall .
The last repair took place after 1997.
Architecture and equipment
The Stendal town hall is built from brick on the east side of the market square and includes several tracts that were built at different times and are partly plastered. The connection with the Marienkirche behind it is attractive in terms of urban planning.
Court arbor
The court arbor is a brick-facing component on the eaves side facing the market on an approximately square floor plan, the core of which was probably only built in the second half of the 14th century, originally in the form of an open hall. The profiles of the cross vaults grouped around a central support are related to those in the nave of the Petrikirche , but were renewed in 1904. The four round keystones show reliefs with the evangelist symbols , the east yokes are walled up today. The wide, ogival arcades with buttresses in front of it appear a little more depressed than originally due to the later elevated floor level. Only the two gables are preserved in their old form; the simpler north gable shows slender panels from the 14th century, the south gable with lattice frieze and cloverleaf arches in wide blind arcades was created in the second quarter of the 15th century. The eclectic- looking upper floor on the market side was allegedly reconstructed in 1904 with arched windows and rustication based on findings from the construction phases of the late Gothic and Renaissance periods .
Gewandhaus and Council wing
The ten-axis Gewandhaus and Council wing lies parallel to the east and was built around 1450/60 in two construction phases. The ground floor was originally used as a clothing store and department store; today the Ratskeller restaurant is located there . Only the ground floor of the northern part, the so-called Gewandhaus wing, was built before the middle of the 15th century and has two aisles with eight cross vaults over three pillars.
The six-axis southern part, the so-called council wing, was built after the middle of the 15th century. Outside it shows a pillar gable with stepped two-part pointed arches from 1460 to the south. On the ground floor, the wing is divided into a narrower and a wider nave by pillars. The shaped stones of these pillars correspond to those of the neighboring Marienkirche, the profile of the capitals is identical to that in the chapter house of the Stendal Cathedral .
The former archive room, which is now used as a registry office, is on the first floor. Similar to the ground floor, it is divided into two naves of different widths. On the second floor is the large council chamber, which was thoroughly restored in 1889 and is three axes long and two wide. On the north side, a considerable part of the late Gothic wall paneling, dated 1462, has been preserved. The council and city coat of arms is depicted above the keel arched gate, on the side under the keel arches there are reliefs with depictions of Jonas and the whale, Samson with the lion, a prophet with tape and the Archbishop of Cologne.
The tiled stove from 1571, which was formerly in the north-west corner and richly decorated with figure reliefs, is now in the Altmark Museum . It was once heated by a Renaissance fireplace in the passage room north of the Great Council Chamber.
The six-axis southern part of the second floor of the council wing was probably laid out as a continuous room in the 15th century. During a renovation between 1570 and 1598, a two-axis vestibule was partitioned off in the south for the colorful hall that was then set up in the north and the council chamber. This anteroom was reduced to one axis when the colorful hall was expanded to become the city's ballroom in 1939/40. The stairwell has a tail gable and a niche portal to the market; the current staircase dates from 1866.
Corps wing
Set in the middle in front of the Gewandhaus wing and projecting obliquely to the west parallel to the axis of the nave of the Marienkirche is the corps wing, which was essentially built around 1480. Between 1570 and 1597 it was given a renaissance facade. The windows and doors were redesigned and uniform tail gables were built in late Renaissance forms. Inside are the two oldest rooms of the town hall under the eastern axis. The northern room is closed with a round arched barrel vault, the southern with a groined vault over pointed shield arches . Both rooms date from the first half of the 13th century. The two vaults in the western head rooms of the corps wing date from the late 15th century. On the lower floor there is a ribbed vault, on the upper floor (in the so-called Kagelwit room ) a star vault with a wooden relief disk in the center, on which a half-figure is depicted with writing.
Roland
A stone Roland figure stands in front of the arbor wing . This is a 1974 copy of the sculpture from 1525, which is kept in the Altmärkisches Museum . The 7.80 m high standing figure is equipped with plate armor , a shield with the Brandenburg eagle and a shouldered sword. On the back, on an ornamented support column, a fool figure with bagpipes and city arms is depicted, which symbolizes Till Eulenspiegel .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , pp. 903–906.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '19.2 " N , 11 ° 51' 34.6" E