Hello friends,
After the reports about the Speicherstadt and the Miniatur Wunderland, we now head in the direction of the Alster to the Hamburg Town Hall. The Hamburg Town Hall is the seat of the Hamburg Parliament and the Hamburg Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
It is located directly on the Binnenalster at Rathausmarkt 1 and has a height of 112 m and a floor area of 7,840 m2. The Hamburg Town Hall was built between 1886 and 1897 as probably the sixth town hall in Hamburg. Due to various fires and relocations new locations had to be found again and again.
The two-winged building has a width of 111 m and with its tower a height of 112 m. The roof is covered with copper.
The entrance portal is richly decorated with wrought-iron craftsmanship. The copper spire is crowned by a gilded imperial eagle. At the tower between clock and coat of arms a stone phoenix figure rises symbolically above a golden medallion of the old town hall. A Latin lettering announces "I will rise again" which is an allusion to the great fire of 1842.
The building has many figures of kings and emperors but also of the bourgeois professions which existed in Hamburg and on the roof there are holy figures to be seen.
The Hygieia fountain is located in the inner courtyard, which is open to the public.
The building contains 647 rooms including the representative halls of the first floor.
From the town hall market one can look to the Inner Alster and around the square many shops have settled down.
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tomtheone
