Usingen town hall
The town hall in Usingen , a town in the Hochtaunus district in Hesse , was built in 1687. The half-timbered house at Wilhelmjstrasse 1 is a protected architectural monument .
description
The three-storey building with a roof turret crowned by a hood is marked 1687. The house survived the fire in Usingen in 1692 . On the roof turret sits an ornate weather vane with the Nassau lion on a roof knob . There was originally a large hall with four columns on the ground floor . St. Andrew's crosses and diamonds can be seen as decorative forms, some of which are placed one inside the other. The house has a two-sided flight of stairs to Obergasse. This entrance is no longer used today because a new building was added to the rear of the building.
history
In the place of today's town hall there was a late medieval building that is figuratively known. This building was demolished and the current building was erected in 1687. As part of the renovation of the town hall, a dendrochronological examination of the beams was carried out. Some of the beams were dated to 1450 and probably originated from the previous building, the rest was dated to 1686. A vaulted cellar on the north-south axis, which was used as a municipal wine store, and a 20-meter-deep well in front of the building, which is buried today, were also taken over from the old building.
literature
- Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments - Hesse II. Administrative Region Darmstadt. (Ed .: Folkhard Cremer and Tobias Michael Wolf), 3rd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2008, p. 781.
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 617-618 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 11.8 ″ E