Town hall Steyr

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Facade to the main square

The Steyr town hall at Stadtplatz 27 is a Rococo building built between 1765 and 1778 according to plans by Johann Gotthard Hayberger . The builder was Wolfgang Hueber .

architecture

View from the tower of the parish church

The dominant element is the onion dome : this emphasizes the vertical orientation of the building. On the balustrade and on both sides of the tower there are six allegorical figures (from left to right): Justitia with sword, scales and blindfold, criminal law with an iron ball and chain, omniscience with God's eye , self-knowledge with a mirror, church patronage with a censer and Roman law with a book and column.

The facade is equipped with a clock and colossal pilasters . The windows on the first and second floors are suspected and barred on the ground floor and first floor. The balcony above the main portal is framed by a wrought-iron grille. Above the door the coat of arms of the city as a flame-breathing panther. On the Enns side is the meeting room with a rich stucco ceiling and marble door walls; in the right wing, first floor, the city archive.

history

The town hall replaces a dilapidated previous building. Hayberger's plans date back to 1757, but were not implemented until 1765. City master builder Wolfgang Hueber took over the construction management , the commissioning of the work was done by the city ​​treasurer Johann Anton Mayrhofer . The main building was completed in 1772, the rear wing, arranged around a courtyard, in 1778. Since the end of the Second World War , the building has been repeatedly adapted and redesigned: in 1956, for example, with the addition of the front wing. The baroque hall, which previously housed the city ​​archives , became the ballroom in 1979. The clock was renewed in the same year. A general renovation of the facade is necessary every decades. The facade has had a light gray paint job since 2000, previously it was orange-pink.

Others

On September 23, 1965, the Austrian Post issued a definitive stamp from the series of Austrian monuments worth 8.00 Schilling for this motif .

gallery

  • Hayberger's 1757 plan

  • The courtyard

  • The facade to the Ennskai

  • The stamp. In the left foreground the Leopoldi Fountain

  • General renovation of the facade in 1904

  • View from Berggasse to the scaffolded tower (2000)

  • Town hall with flowers and newly designed town square paving

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historisches Steyr (brochure). Korneuburg: Verlag Kellner 2007, p. 4 f.
  2. ↑ steyr online. Buildings: town hall. Viewed March 2, 2010
  3. ^ Manfred Brandl - New History of Steyr , Steyr: Ennsthaler 1980 p. 46, ISBN 3-85068-093-2
  4. ↑ Reinhard Kaufmann - Small guide through Steyr . Steyr: Ennsthaler 2004 p. 55, ISBN 3-85068-297-8

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Steyr  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 19.8 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 10.2"  E