Town house (Coburg)
The Coburg town house , formerly the office building, is located in the center of Coburg on the northern side of the market square . The three-storey gable roof building , adorned by two bay windows and three mid-level houses , is the most famous Renaissance building in the city.
Building
Instead of the old bailiwick, Duke Johann Casimir arranged for the representative state and administrative building to be built for the state government opposite the town hall on Coburg's market square. The rectangular building, at that time twice as wide as the two opposite town halls, was created under the direction of the architect and painter Peter Sengelaub between 1597 and 1601. The sculptor Nikolaus Bergner created the plastic jewelry. The construction costs are said to have been 15,000 guilders .
The facade of the high ground floor is structured by a series of round-arched shutters, medium-sized oculi and small windows above. There is no portal in the middle of the building, just a simple passage. A shopping arcade parallel to the eaves side was laid out in 1957 and ends on Spitalgasse in a segmented arch portal with the older coat of arms of Johann Casimir held by two lions. The upper floors are divided by cornices above the triangular window canopies. The facade facing the market square has seven double axes and three dwelling houses . Larger-than-life stone knight figures stand on the gable corners and form the end.
The two two-storey polygonal Coburg bay windows arranged at the corners of the building are striking . They stand on a three-quarter round column and a console made of five funnel-shaped cornices with tendrils, decorative figures and coats of arms. The parapets on the Spitalgasse bay bear the coat of arms and depictions of the virtues Justitia (justice), Spes (hope) and Fides (faith), Caritas (love) on the Herrngasse bay window. What kind of hoods close the bay windows at the top.
The interior of the building was completely rebuilt in 1896 and 1957. Only the star vaults in the bay windows have been preserved.
use
The administration of the duchy and the state colleges were housed in the former chancellery building. From 1858 the Coburg district court had its seat in the building. The town house has been used as the city's administration building since 1957. There is a shopping arcade on the ground floor.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV.48 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 236 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 31.5 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 53.9 ″ E