Town hall of Neustadt (Eisleben)

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The town hall of Neustadt in the city of Eisleben is dominant on the corner of Breiter Weg / Annengasse (Breiter Weg 94). Opposite it is the " Bergmannsroland " from approx. 1590 (now a copy from 1926), the kneeling right symbol of the Neustadt Eisleben with the coat of arms of the Counts of Mansfeld-Hinterort on the shield.

History of construction and use

Foundation and Reformation period

The Neustadt was founded in 1511 by Count Albrecht IV (1480–1560) against the protest of the council of the old town of Eisleben and the other Mansfeld count lines west of the old town as a mining settlement. It had its own council. Parish Church of St. Anne (1513) and its related Convent of the Augustinian Hermits (1515) went from 1518 D. Caspar Güttel the Reformation in Eisleben. In the Lutheran Treaty of 1546 it was agreed that the old and new towns of Eisleben have common guilds. However, they remained separate cities with their own councils and city judges, so they did not belong to the petrified judicial district pledged to the council of the old town in 1454, which did not change when the new town became an electoral Saxon fief in 1579 due to the permutation recession like the old town in 1573. The new town was also not included in the city walling of the old town in the first half of the 16th century. It was not until 1808 that the Napoleonic King of Westphalia, Jerôme , old and new towns united to form one municipality. This new city also needed public buildings, and so Albrecht's second daughter-in-law Margarete, a née Duchess of Braunschweig (she died in 1596, her husband Johann had died in 1567), who had taken up residence in the Neustadt, supported the construction of the Neustadt, including the completion of St. Anne's Church. At her instigation, the New Town Hall was built in the Renaissance style from 1571 to 1589 . The previous building is said to have been a little further east on the south side of the Breite Weg.

The new building is a two-story quarry stone building with a hipped roof , the two wings of which extend towards Annengasse and Breite Weg. The slated roof turret on the main wing is designed as a clock tower. The upper floor of the building is structured by coupled windows with fine frame profiles and used to have a corner bay window . The round arched sandstone portal under the fourth pair of windows in fully developed Renaissance forms shows rich, flat leaf and tendril ornaments. The keystone bears the year 1580. After 1833 an inscription plaque “HANS GUHZ MANSFELD. MARGARETHA GHZBULGUFZM HERE IS BAVT VND GOD TRUSTED. 1571 “removed. Inside, a stone spiral staircase with a handrail around a round spindle leads from a groin vaulted entrance hall, which is decorated with the Mansfeld-Hinterort coat of arms. Several, formerly representative rooms are decorated with columns with leaves, tendrils and scrollwork. During the Thirty Years' War the councilman and mayor Steffan Neuwirdt worked here .

Later developments

In 1808 the town hall lost its function; it became a city and regional court, 1849-1852 district court (therefore also called the “old court”), later a primary school and finally served residential purposes - until it finally had to be closed in 1973 due to subsidence. Renovations took place in 1892 and 1898. For several years now, only a special wooden beam construction has saved the north gable wall from collapsing. The long vacancy generally requires a usage concept and repair of the valuable Renaissance building.

At the end of December 2016, an agreement was reached on emergency securing of the building, which is now in great danger of collapsing. There are currently insufficient financial resources and a lack of usage concept in the way of a final renovation.

literature

  • Karl Krumhaar: The establishment of the Neustadt Eisleben and its history up to the end of the 16th century , in: Festschrift des Harzverein, Eisleben 1874, pp. 1–33.
  • Hermann Großler , Adolf Brinkmann : The art monuments of the Mansfelder Seekreis (= art monuments inventories of the state of Saxony-Anhalt, vol. 16, Halle 2000), reprint of the Halle 1895 edition, esp. Pp. 205–207.
  • Carl Rühlemann: Comrade Martin in the Eisleber Neustadt , in: Mitteldt. Edited, Eisleben, from June 13, 1992, p. 11, after: Mein Mansfelder Land, No. 9/1927, pp. 65–70.
  • Irene Roch: On Renaissance sculpture in Mansfeld Castle and Eisleben, in: Wiss. Zs. D. MLU Halle, Ges.- u. Linguistic Series XII., 9/10 (1963), pp. 765-784.
  • Franz Häring: The Neustädter Rathaus in Eisleben - a monument from the Renaissance , in: Mansfelder Heimatblätter 9 (1990), pp. 64–66, Fig.
  • Rainer Slotta : Mining, Eisleben and its monuments - Comrade Martin and the Luther monument , in: Martin Luther and mining in Mansfelder Land (= cat. 7 of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt), Eisleben 2000, pp. 246–260.
  • Irene Roch-Lemmer: The Neustadt Eisleben as a mining settlement of the 16th century , in: Contributions to regional and state culture in Saxony-Anhalt, no. 19, Halle 2001, pp. 113-130.
  • Bernd Feicke: The sculpture "Koblauchskönig" in Eisleben , in: Harz-Forschungen, Vol. XIV, Wernigerode and Berlin 2002, pp. 267–282, esp. 280–282, Fig.
  • Rühlemann, Zinke, Lindner (edit.): The chronicle of the white baker and mayor of Neustadt Eisleben Steffan Neuwirdt in the council archive Eisleben 1624 to 1641 , private print 2002, s. Review in Harz-Zs. 57 (2005), pp. 187-188 (B. Feicke)
  • Peter Lindner: The register for the citizen register of Neustadt Eisleben 1706 to 1809 , in: Zs. F. Heimatforschung, no. 16, Halle 2007, pp. 6–46.
  • Gerrit Deutschländer: Old versus New. Foundation and development of Neustadt Eisleben in the 16th century , in: Saxony-Anhalt. Journal für Natur- und Heimatfreunde, Halle, 22 (2012) 4, pp. 12–15, fig.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cyriakus Spangenberg (Ed. Rudolf Leers): Mansfeldische Chronica. Fourth part , in: Mansfelder Blätter (31/32), Eisleben 1918, pp. 250, 338–344
  2. ↑ Cyriakus Spangenberg, where, pp. 345-348.
  3. ↑ Bernd Feicke: The permutation recesses at the end of the 16th century in the county of Mansfeld, in: Zs. F. Heimatforschung, no. 17, Halle 2008, pp. 19–24.
  4. ^ Kurt Lindner: Lutherstadt Eisleben , Vol. 1, Eisleben 1983, pp. 175–176.
  5. ↑ To be resolved with: Hans G (raf) u (nd) H (err) z (u) Mansfeld. Margaretha G (räfin and) H (erzogin) z (u) B (raunschweig) and (nd) L (üneburg), G (räfin) and (nd) F (ürstin) z (u) M (ansfeld). Margarete (1534–1596) is the fourth daughter of Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .
  6. ↑ Irene Roch-Lemmer: Endangered Architectural Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt, No. 21, Lutherstadt Eisleben, Neustädter Rathaus , Halle 2000
  7. ↑ a b Jörg Müller: Old Neustädter Rathaus: Emergency securing of the building begins in January . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed December 30, 2016]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 20.5 ″  E