New Town Hall, Wiesbaden

The New Town Hall of the Hessian capital Wiesbaden was built from 1883 to 1887 by Georg von Hauberrisser, which designed the New Munich City Hall and the City Hall of St. Johann in Saarbrücken also in neo-Gothic style, in neo-Renaissance style.

Location

The building is located on the Castle Square, at which the Old City Hall, the City Palace, the seat of the Hessian Parliament, as well as the market 's Church are. On the other hand, the Dernsche site borders.

Construction

Externally surpassed the architecture of City Hall, the opposite Stadtschloss to pomp, the facade, damaged in World War II and rebuilt in a simplified form without their dominant main gable.

Function

The office building has in addition to its original purpose and public exhibition rooms and a Bavarian restaurant operated by AG Ratskeller. It can be heated with thermal water.

Ratskeller

1890 was the Wiesbaden painter Kaspar Koegler the contract to painting of the Council cellar. To cope with the task, he pulled his native in Wiesbaden- Biebrich student Wilhelm Weimar (1859-1914) added. Koegler adorned the " wine cellar " and the " Ratsstübchen " with witty paintings and provided his paintings with witty lyrics. His former pupil Heinrich Schlitt - then 41 years old and now successfully operates in Munich - was also involved in the painting of the Wiesbaden Council cellar. He designed the " beer cellar " with humorous scenes and sayings.

The eloquent rhyme: "Whether Heath, Jew or Christian in what is thirsty ," the guest - along with the appearance of a gentleman in top hat and tails, a Jew with Pejes curls in caftans and a Südseekanibalen in grass skirt - at the entrance welcomed the Council's basement, was obviously the paintings in the Nazi era undoing. Although a historic monument, the most precious realistic, Wilhelmine frescoes were painted over.

During the restoration of the Town Hall in 1987 was considered to expose the antique frescoes. But they were not restored from " cost reasons ", but redeemed and lost a second time.

The former tenant of the Town Hall basement, committed at your own expense - the young painter Eberhard Münch Wiesbaden, who was then oriented yet historically realistic - so that he could reshape the basement rooms in the style of Koegler Schlitt and the original building.

Today, the Council cellar of the Bavarian Catering AG is operated. After the whereabouts of the paintings Münch'schen demand, you can get there reply: " The rooms have been renovated! "

In Munich, also built by Hauberrisser City Hall, the history you felt obligated. It used and got the local council cellar Paintings by Schlitt. In this way, a unique monument of humorous painting was preserved in the Bavarian capital.