Town hall Teupitz

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Town hall in Teupitz

The town hall Teupitz is a listed building and the seat of the city ​​administration of Teupitz in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg . It is also the seat of the office of Schenkenländchen .

location

The building with the address Markt 9 stands in the center of the city at the intersection of Markt and Poststrasse. In front of the entrance is an installation, the Teupitz picture book : the history of the city is depicted on individually designed tiles. The Kaiser Wilhelm and war memorial is on the opposite side of the street .

history

For many centuries, the region was under the influence of the Schenk von Landsberg family , who lived in Teupitz Castle just a few meters from the market square. She determined the fate of the city and, for example, also held the church patronage. With the sale of the land to Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1717, the ownership changed, but it would be over 100 years before the citizens of the city built their own town hall.

In the course of the Prussian reforms , the ideal of self-government was introduced in 1808 . The influence of the ruling royal bailiff declined and the commune was to administer itself from then on. In 1830, craftsmen therefore built a new building on the market square for 2,000 thalers . It included offices and service rooms for the mayor, the police officer and the police prison. A donor donated an oak table with ten chairs, which was set up in the new meeting room. Carl Wilhelm Gottgetreu moved in as the first mayor and directed the town's fortunes until 1856. In 1899 another citizen donated 2,000 marks , with which the city had a poor house built on the north wall of the house. In 1910, the architect Paul Sübers , who also built the ensemble on Lindenstrasse, converted the building. After the fall of the Wall , the city was able to modernize and expand the building in 1998 with the help of subsidies of around 880,000 DM. In the 21st century, the meeting room is used, among other things, as a registry office.

architecture

The building has a rectangular floor plan and is two stories high. The facade is structured strictly symmetrically on the street side. On the ground floor there is a central, rectangular portal, next to it two rectangular windows. Above there are five windows that were installed axially symmetrical to the first floor. A cornice with a centrally placed town hall lettering is attached between each of the two floors . It is framed by the coat of arms of the Schenkenländchen office on the left and the coat of arms of the city of Teupitz on the right. There are two bat dormers in the simple saddle roof . The entire facade is structured with a dark red square plaster . The extension is smaller and drawn in, designed much more simply and darkly plastered . A sliding door on the ground floor leads the visitor into a publicly accessible area with a citizens' office. On the upper floor there are two distinctly smaller windows arranged in pairs; two dormers in the saddle roof .

literature

  • BiKuT (ed.): Teupitz am See - a treasure in the Mark Brandenburg. Historical city guide , Weißensee-Verlag, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-89998-090-5 , p. 230

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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 9.7 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 36.5 ″  E