City Hall Zeitz

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City Hall Zeitz
Old building
Open staircase
Stepped gable
Town hall tower

The Zeitz town hall is the listed town hall of Zeitz in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the city center of Zeit at Altmarkt 1 .

Architecture and history

The location for the town hall has been occupied since 1396. Today's town hall was built in the years 1505 to 1509, other sources mention the period from 1504 to 1509. The Altenburger Sebald Waltstein was involved in the construction. In the years from 1906 to 1909 the house was expanded and fundamentally remodeled. A courtyard with a square floor plan was built on four sides and a side tower was added. The design for this came from the Leipzig architects Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer .

The three-storey, late-Gothic building with a rectangular floor plan faces the market . A double flight of stairs leads to the entrance of the plastered building on the first floor . On the gable roof are five rectangular, ornate market-facing lucarnes significantly. On the sides of the house there are high stepped gables that are crowned with pinnacles . Both the dormitories and the stepped gables are lavishly decorated with fascia , rods and branches . The stepped gables have a striking resemblance to the central gable of the Breslau town hall , which was built between 1497 and 1498 and which probably served as a model for the Zeitz town hall. One of the special features is a late Gothic seat niche portal ; the window walls are provided with framework profiles.

Inside the building, only remnants of the original late Gothic building are preserved. In the Ratskeller there is still a four-bay, deeply sloping ribbed vault . A belt arch there bears the inscription 1505. There is a window from 1575 to the former council chamber. There are also several framework portals and two stucco ceilings from the early Baroque on the first floor . One of the stucco ceilings is based on an inscription from 1675 and shows a figurative representation of the four continents in an oval medallion between flowers and fruits. The design is attributed to Matthias Gottmannshausen . The second stucco ceiling was created in 1679 by Hans Michael Krippendorf . It shows a representation of Justitia and Prudentia .

The extension from the beginning of the 20th century shows the neo-baroque overall character of its architecture with embossed sandstone blocks as well as Art Nouveau forms . In the southeast the building has a dormer in neo-Gothic style, the design of which is based on the late Gothic and which is provided with a rough, flattened tracery. The high tower of the house is crowned by a curved hood with a lantern . The extension is provided with sculptural decorations, which were executed in 1909 based on models by the Leipzig sculptors Bruno and Wilhelm Wollstädter .

There is a ballroom above the representative entrance. His paintings were created by the Dresden painter Otto Gußmann , from whom the templates for the colored glazing of the windows come. A painting showing Prometheus was created in 1922 by the painter Ernst Müller-Gräfe .

In the local register of monuments , the town hall is listed as a monument under registration number 094 85153 .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ute Bednarz, Hans-Joachim Krause (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt II, administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 926.
  2. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 9.2, Burgenlandkreis (II), Altkreis Zeitz. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-57-1 , page 243.
  3. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt. Magdeburg.pdf, page 1104

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 55.8 ″  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 5.1 ″  E