Town hall Stolberg (Harz)

The town hall of Stolberg is a monument in the municipality of Südharz in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .

Stolberg is a small town in the Harz Mountains that is said to have emerged from a miners' settlement. It was granted city rights before 1300. In the years 1452 to 1454 the city received today's town hall, which was increased by two half-timbered floors between 1480 and 1482. Conversions in the years 1600 (Gothic windows replaced by Renaissance windows) and 1639 (changes inside) as well as at the beginning of the 19th century (ground floor inside rebuilt) changed the overall external impression only to a minor extent. In 1724 a sundial with Stolberg's coat of arms and baroque stucco frames with guild signs on the facade were added. These guild symbols were renewed in a simplified way in 1968.

The town hall is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 30303 . The size of the building shows that the city once had many more inhabitants than it does today. The double kink in the facade, which adapts to the street, and the steep, overhanging gable roof are striking. The upper floors are only accessible from the outside via a staircase that leads past the building to the right up to the town church. This saved a separate stairwell when expanding. The greatest specialty is the adaptation of the architecture to the calendar. It should have 12 doors (= months), 52 windows (= weeks) and 365 window panes. However, these figures are no longer adhered to today. So there should now be 366 windows. The Ratskeller is in the basement , the city administration is in the upper floors. A memorial for Thomas Müntzer, who was born here around 1489, has stood in front of the building since 1989 .

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
Norbert Eisold, Edeltraud Lautsch: Saxony-Anhalt (DuMont Art Travel Guide), 2nd edition, DuMont Buchverlag 2000.
Marianne Mehling: Knaur's cultural guide in color. Saxony-Anhalt , Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-8289-0700-8 .
Berent Schwineköper , Albrecht Timm : Stolberg. In: Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 , pp. 453-455.
Klaus Werner, Peter Höh, Christine Jaath: Ostharz with Kyffhäuser (= The Harz in 2 volumes; 2), 2nd edition, Bielefeld 1996, ISBN 3-89416-228-7 .

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Stolberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Dehio, p. 800.
↑ ^a ^b Dehio, p. 806.
↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670).
↑ Timm / Schwineköper, p. 454. One assumes 3,000 for the 15th century. Today (as of 2009) there are around 1,200.
↑ Werner / Höh / Jaath, p. 88; Mehling, p. 236.
↑ Eisold / Lautsch, p. 197.

51.573442 10.954602Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '24.4 " N , 10 ° 57' 16.6" E

[1] Dehio, p. 800.

[Dehio-2] Dehio, p. 806.

[3] List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670).

[4] Timm / Schwineköper, p. 454. One assumes 3,000 for the 15th century. Today (as of 2009) there are around 1,200.

[5] Werner / Höh / Jaath, p. 88; Mehling, p. 236.

[6] Eisold / Lautsch, p. 197.