City Hall

The Sackrathaus before 1736 (watercolor)

The town hall with a fountain

The Sackrathaus was the town hall of the Braunschweig soft picture sack . It was on the corner of Sack and Vor der Burg streets. The town hall existed from the 14th century until it was demolished in 1739.

description

The Sackrathaus had four towers with weather vanes and two differently designed gables, also with weather vanes. On the south facade there were four coats of arms as decoration. The upper floor was criss-crossed by a row with several windows.

There was an octagonal fountain near the town hall, which was given a Gothic stone superstructure in 1433. The Ringerbrunnen is located at the approximate location of the historical fountain.

On the upper floor there was a heated room with a small chamber in which the council silver was kept in a lockable box. The sack's chamberlain kept the key to this box. The archive chamber was on the northwest corner.

The citizens themselves will rarely have entered the Sackrathaus, they used it for wedding and carnival celebrations and for legal transactions or for carving in the Ratskeller.

history

The Sackrathaus was first recorded for the year 1350 and was mentioned as a pretorium . In 1400 the building was rebuilt. In 1671, after the independence of the city of Braunschweig, the Sack merged with the other soft forms. In the spring of 1739 the Sackrathaus was torn down. Before the demolition, Anton August Beck made drawings of the town hall, which preserved the appearance of the building for posterity.

The baroque sack cellar was built in its place . The building was completed in 1757 by the building manager Albrecht Heinrich Carl Conradi . The sack cellar existed until the 20th century and was destroyed in the bombing raids on Braunschweig in World War II and its remains were finally torn down. A modern new business building was built in its place.

literature

• Elmar Arnhold: Sack town hall. In: Medieval metropolis Braunschweig. Architecture and urban architecture from the 11th to 15th centuries. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2018, ISBN 978-3-944939-36-0 , p. 192.
• Bernd Jericho: Sack town hall. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 199 .
• Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Volume 84

Web links

Commons : Sackrathaus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 51.3 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 18.8"  E