Tangermünde Town Hall
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The Rathaus Tangermuende is created in the Middle Ages historic town hall of the city Tangermünde . It is counted among the most architecturally valuable secular buildings of the brick Gothic in Northern Germany. The Tangermünder Museum on the city's history is located on the ground floor and in the basement .
White storks regularly nest on the town hall.
history
The oldest part of the building is the east wing, which was probably built in 1430 by the builder Hinrich Brunsberg , who was working in the Mark Brandenburg and Pomerania at the time . Noteworthy is the 24 meter high from brick masonry display wall. Behind her is the magnificent town hall ballroom. In 1480 the court arbor and the council chamber above, which is now used as a wedding room, were built. The building was once an extension of the actual town hall from the 14th century, which was probably made of half-timbering and burned down in 1617. Arched cellars of the 14th / 15th centuries are of this building on Langen Strasse. Century preserved.
The Brunsberg building contains only two rooms and no staircase of its own; only in 1618 a wooden external staircase was created, which was replaced in 1846 by a staircase with an arcade built according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler . Today the town hall ballroom and the council chamber can be reached via these stairs. The windows on the ground floor were partially changed in the 16th century, the tracery panels of the windows on the upper floor were replaced in 1846 as part of the overall restoration, with the fronts being greatly supplemented. The last restoration took place in 1928.
architecture
The main architectural accent is the splendid facade of the east wing, which is subdivided into three axes with a narrow middle section by polygonal buttresses with eyelash-crowned niches. The division into storeys is enriched by wide decorative friezes made of glazed shaped stones . The openings in the lateral axes have moved closer to the central buttresses, which increases the vertical tendency of the higher central section. The ornamental gable is characterized by the splendid, free-standing tracery rosettes , of which two smaller ones carry a larger one. The biaxial south side of the east wing has a structure similar to the main facade, the crenellated wreath dates from 1846.
Inside the east wing there is a rectangular hall with a central pillar and a star vault on the first and second floors. In contrast to conventional single-pillar rooms, this results in a fan-like rib vault that mediates between a shorter two-axis and a longer three-axis wall. On the upper floor, a ten-pointed star emerges from 20 ribs emerging from the central support, towards which four-pointed stars grow from the corners of the room. The ribs are caught by wall templates between the windows or niches.
The lower hall is similar to the upper one, but its ribbed vault arises from a six-pointed star. The room was originally sunk into the floor and therefore much higher, with the base of the central pillar at the floor level of the current basement. In the 16th century the floor was raised and at the same time the chimney was placed in the west wall.
The much simpler south wing is opened in the protruding part of the ground floor as an arbor on three sides of the ground floor by an ogival arcade each. On the upper floor, segment-arched windows are arranged in pointed arches, the wall is divided by circular and coat of arms panels. The gable is similar in the choir of St. Stephen's Church with twisted Taustäben divided, the gable of the angular building was built in 1846. The arbor and the interior of the ground floor are closed with rib vaults. The council chamber on the upper floor has two bays with two star vaults that rest on mask heads above dewsticks.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Teichgräber: The town hall of Tangermünde . Eduard Pietzsch, Dresden 1839 ( digitized version )
- 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. 932–933.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Säum: Hinrich Brunsberg, a late Gothic master builder . In: Baltic Studies . New series vol. 28, Leon Saunier, Stettin 1926, pp. 215–326
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Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '27 " N , 11 ° 58' 14.7" E