Straubing Town Hall

Straubing Town Hall
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place	Straubing , Theresienplatz 2
Construction year	1382
Coordinates	48 ° 52 '55.4 " N , 12 ° 34' 9.3" E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '55.4 " N , 12 ° 34' 9.3" E

Straubing town hall five days after the major fire in November 2016

Sign at the town hall in Straubing

The Straubing Town Hall is located in the Neustadt Straubing, which was founded in 1218, and consists of several connected buildings. In 1382 the first building was converted from a trading house into a town hall ; since then it has served as an office for the city administration and the city council. In 1893 it was given a neo-Gothic facade, which is a symbol of the city. Large parts of the actual city administration are housed in the buildings of the former canons of St. Jakob and St. Tiburtius , which are directly adjacent to the historic town hall.

On November 25, 2016, the historic part of the town hall was badly damaged by fire , and the aim is to rebuild it true to the original . The Gothic council hall, which is valuable in terms of art history, was also destroyed in the fire, one of the few examples of this era in Bavaria and Germany.

Reconstruction is scheduled to begin in 2020.

building

The building was first mentioned in 1382, later it was rebuilt several times. At the beginning of the 19th century, at the instigation of the Straubinger, the town hall was "modernized" and the Gothic gable wall was demolished, instead a hipped roof was placed on the town hall. The Gothic window front would almost have been removed if the government of Lower Bavaria hadn't pointed out to the builders that King Ludwig I was reluctant to see the removal of “such antiquities in public buildings”. At the end of the 19th century, the gable was then reconstructed again in the course of a neo-Gothic redesign and provided with a bell tower; it also survived the devastating fire in November 2016. The medieval roof structure of the longitudinal wing has also been partially spared, wall paintings emerged from under the flaked layers of plaster. Otherwise the roof structure from 1827 burned down. The town hall with its Gothic windows as a testimony to Straubing's medieval tradition was completely destroyed, as was the assembly room in which the city council met and the blue salon were badly damaged.

City administration

The city administration is subordinate to the mayor in his function as head of the authority ; the auditing office and the equal opportunities officer report directly to this. The further subdivision consists of four sections:

Unit 1: Law and Local Affairs

with main and finance committee, vacation committee, personnel committee, environment committee, fixed committee and audit committee

Unit 2: Order, Social Affairs and Integration

with committee for regulatory affairs (also committee for health, nutrition, consumer protection and veterinary affairs), social committee, youth welfare committee, administrative board of the youth center (subcommittee of youth welfare committee), school committee, culture and partnership committee and sports committee

Unit 3: Finances and Organization

with property committee and foundation committee

Unit 4: Planning and Construction

with building committee (also committee for development issues) and urban development committee (also economic committee)

Web links

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

Official website
Straubing, one year later: The town hall fire and its consequences , Idowa, November 25, 2017

Individual evidence

^ City hall in Straubing city center in flames. In: Passauer Neue Presse. November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .
^ After a fire in the Straubing town hall: City administration wants to start work ( Memento from January 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), BR.de, November 28, 2016, quote: “The internationally renowned gothic expert, the Regensburg art history professor Achim Hubel, has the Destruction of the Gothic town hall in Straubing classified as a historical loss of importance throughout Germany. On Bayerischer Rundfunk he said that Straubing had lost one of the few remaining Gothic town hall halls in Bavaria and Germany, which was of great art-historical importance, especially because of its valuable Gothic tracery windows and the Renaissance doors. "
↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/straubing-rathaus-aufbau-beginn-1.4692839 , accessed on January 24, 2020
↑ www.straubing.de Administrative structure plan (PDF; 54 kB). Accessed September 23, 2011.

[1] City hall in Straubing city center in flames. In: Passauer Neue Presse. November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2016 .

[2] After a fire in the Straubing town hall: City administration wants to start work ( Memento from January 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), BR.de, November 28, 2016, quote: “The internationally renowned gothic expert, the Regensburg art history professor Achim Hubel, has the Destruction of the Gothic town hall in Straubing classified as a historical loss of importance throughout Germany. On Bayerischer Rundfunk he said that Straubing had lost one of the few remaining Gothic town hall halls in Bavaria and Germany, which was of great art-historical importance, especially because of its valuable Gothic tracery windows and the Renaissance doors. "

[3] ttps://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/straubing-rathaus-aufbau-beginn-1.4692839 , accessed on January 24, 2020

[4] www.straubing.de Administrative structure plan (PDF; 54 kB). Accessed September 23, 2011.