Palace Square (Hanau)
The Schlossplatz in Hanau (formerly also called Hofstatt , Schloss Freiheit and Vorburg ) was one of the medieval castle , later the open space facing the old town of Hanau in front of the city palace .
history
Originally, the square was surrounded by the Burgmannen residential and farm yards. When the palace was expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries, new sections of the palace were built on its north and east sides: the Marstall (later the town hall, now part of the “Congress Park Hanau”, CPH) and the second chancellery building. The rest of the development around the square comes from the construction period after the Second World War .
Cityscape
Schlossplatz is the northernmost of a series of squares that are almost axially aligned through the old and new town of Hanau: Schlossplatz, Old Town Market , Freedom Square , New Town Market , French Allee and Hafenplatz .
The Palace Square is listed in law after the Hessian Denkmalschutzgesetz part of the overall plant Old Town Freedom Square .
Development
Chancellery building
The former office building was built between 1685 and 1691. The architect was Johann Philipp Dreyeicher . It has been used culturally since the 19th century. Today it houses the city library with the regional "Hanau-Hessen Department", the Hanau city archive, and the Wetterau Society for all natural history . The building is made of dark basalt rubble. Window and door reveals are made of red Main sandstone. Above the entrance is the double coat of arms of Count Philipp Reinhard (* 1664; † 1712) and his wife, Count Palatine Magdalena Claudia von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (* 1668; † 1704), above the year 1691 (completion of the building).
Marstall - City Hall - Congress Park Hanau
From 1711 to 1713, a baroque riding hall was built on the eastern edge of the square based on a design by Julius Ludwig Rothweil , which later served as the castle's stables . In 1928 it was converted into an event hall (“Stadthalle”) and received a new sandstone portal with the Hanau coat of arms in the style of the time for its front facing the Schlossplatz. After the Second World War, it was rebuilt in the same function and received a functional extension to the north ("Bürgerhaus"), which in 2001 had to give way to the new Congress Park Hanau (since 2003), a congress and event center, due to asbestos pollution . The Marstall was also integrated into this building, redesigned again and given a modern accompanying building.
Hans Sachs House
The building, named after Hans Sachs , is one of those that were erected in the construction period after the Second World War in an architecture typical of the 1950s. It initially housed the Hanau Chamber of Crafts , later city authorities, including the city's cultural office. Today it is partly used by the city library, to which it is connected by a glazed bridge on the first floor.
Castle Square School
The - currently vacant - buildings of the former Schlossplatz School also date from the construction period after the Second World War. Before that, there was the commandant's office , a striking half-timbered house with a bay window. The school was relocated to a new school center in the Hanau-Lamboy district . The building now belongs to the Karl Rehbein School, the main building of which is opposite.
literature
- 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main, ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978. ISBN 3-87627-242-4
- Heinrich Bott : The old town of Hanau. Building History House Directory Pictures. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau . Hanau 1953.
- Heinrich Bott: Contributions to the building history of the castle in Hanau . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 17. Hanau 1960, pp. 49–72.
- Heinrich Bott: City and fortress Hanau. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 20. Hanau 1965, pp. 61–125.
- Martin Hoppe : Hanauer street names , Hanau 1991. ISBN 3-87627-426-5
- Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 * From the Residenzschloss to the Congress Park. The (de) transformations of the Hanauer Schlossplatz . Ed .: Hanauer Baugesellschaft GmbH. Hanau 2003.
- August Winkler and Jakob Mitteldorf: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Hanau. Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Neustadt Hanau . Hanau 1897
- Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919. ND 1978. ISBN 3-87627-243-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carolin Krumm, p. 80f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 16.6 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 5.1 ″ E