Town house (Wittenberg)

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Wittenberg town house

The Stadthaus Wittenberg is a public building complex on Arsenalplatz , which includes various historical buildings and fulfills various functions (city information, event rooms, museum, archive).

Historic building fabric

The origins of the parts of the building combined in the town house go back to the 13th century. The townhouse includes in its perimeter important remains of medieval buildings of the former monastery church of the Franciscan , in turn, as a grave lay the Askanier was used. As early as 1536, the building was converted into a granary by Conrad Theiss and heavily reshaped by adding several levels. The medieval windows were clogged and pouring openings built in. During the Seven Years' War , the building was badly damaged and rebuilt with a lower building height. Multiple construction activities in the following period have greatly changed the appearance of the building. At the end of the 19th century, one storey was added and large window openings were broken into on the south side. Between 1945 and 1992, Arsenalplatz with the town hall was occupied by the Red Army and therefore not accessible.

New building

The city's central visitor reception was opened in 2014/2015 on the site of the former Franciscan monastery. The new building was completed in 2014. The architects were Ralf Niebergall from Magdeburg and Fabian Schulz, Biederitz. Bc Architekten + Ingenieure GmbH from Lutherstadt Wittenberg and Jörg Lammert GEROTEKTEN from Weimar took on the execution planning and construction supervision. The building owner was SALEG Sachsen-Anhaltinische Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH in Magdeburg. Lutherstadt Wittenberg acted as trustee. The inauguration of the new building took place in August 2014. The building is accessible from Mauerstrasse.

Functions

The townhouse serves different functions: First, it is an event center, which is referred to as the actual “townhouse”; second, it includes the central tourist and city information; thirdly, it has the function of a collection and exhibition house that houses the historical city information and the council archive . Together with the Museum of the City Collections in the Zeughaus on the other side of Arsenalplatz, these museum facilities form a museum complex that combines the city's historical collection potential with Julius Riemer's scientific and ethnological collection in one forum.

literature

  • Antonia Brauchte, Isabelle Fräse: Cellars as sources for urban research - first results from Wittenberg. In: The Ernestine Wittenberg: University and City (1486–1547) (= Wittenberg research. Volume 1). On behalf of the Leucorea Foundation, ed. by Heiner Lück , Enno Bünz , Leonhard Helten , Dorothée Sack , Hans-Georg Stephan . Imhof, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-270-3 , pp. 169-179.
  • Antonia Needed: Cellars from the 13th to 18th centuries in Wittenberg. Structural structure and use. In: The Ernestine Wittenberg: City and residents. Part 1: Text volume (= Wittenberg research. Volume 2.1). On behalf of the Leucorea Foundation, ed. by Heiner Lück, Enno Bünz, Leonhard Helten, Armin Kohnle , Dorothée Sack, Hans-Georg Stephan. Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-917-7 , pp. 91-104.
  • Jörg Bielig (Hrsg.): Wittenberg - city guide through the city and surroundings. City guide with city map, Signet, Wetzlar 1990, ISBN 3-927595-30-6 .
  • Michael Schulze (Ed.): Wittenberg in one day. A city tour. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-937146-88-1 .
  • Lorenz Friedrich Beck: Rule and territory of the dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg (1212-1422) (= Library of Brandenburg and Prussian History. Volume 6). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2000, ISBN 3-932981-63-4 (Zugl .: Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 1998).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MZ: Two cellars on Arsenalplatz will be preserved. In: mz-web.de. March 18, 2011, accessed August 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ New in LSA / Wittenberg. Townhouse. In: architekturtourismus.de, accessed on August 27, 2018 (PDF; 181 kB).
  3. ↑ Central visitor reception on Arsenalplatz. In: wittenberg.de, accessed on August 3, 2016.
  4. ^ Municipal collections. In: wittenberg.de, accessed on August 27, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 7.9 "  N , 12 ° 38 ′ 35.3"  E