Roemer ( him. Römer - "Roman" ) - the old town hall in Frankfurt am Main . For over 600 years, the building with a remarkable stepped gable is a symbol of the city. The name of the town hall gave the average of three previously independent buildings, which is called the "House of the Roman" ( it. Haus zu Römer ). The origin of the name of the central building remains vague, despite the fact that on the basis of historical research many different, often contradictory versions were put forward. And “Römer” nevertheless for many centuries means for Frankfurt am Main a complex of town hall buildings.
In the XIV century, the city government required a new building, and on March 11, 1405, the city authorities bought two representative city apartment buildings in the city center, named “House of a Roman” and “House of a Golden Swan” , for 800 guilders , providing the owners with a life annuity Amount to 65 guilders per year. After the restructuring of the buildings in the town hall that followed the purchase, a large Imperial Hall and a special room for the election of the emperor appeared, decorated with frescoes depicting coats of arms and portraits of various classes . Over time, the city authorities began gradually attaching nearby buildings to the two houses that marked the beginning of the town hall complex.
The Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV, Frankfurt, was legalized as a venue for the election of emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. Served for several centuries from the Middle Ages to the liquidation of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation in 1806 as the venue for the coronation of the German kings and emperors , Römer takes a worthy place in the history of Germany. The Reichstag often met in the building of the Frankfurt city hall. The town hall was also used for the needs of the Frankfurt fair. Römer suffered numerous damages during the Second World War and was restored in the post-war period. Despite the modern interior decoration of the town hall, Römer is one of the most significant secular gothic buildings .
Bibliography
- Architekten- & Ingenieur-Verein (Hrsg.): Frankfurt am Main und seine Bauten . Selbstverlag des Vereins, Frankfurt am Main 1886, pp. 28-33, 58 & 59, 65 & 67
- Otto Donner-von-Richter: Die Maler-Familie Fyoll und der Römerbau . In: Archiv für Frankfurts Geschichte und Kunst . K. Th. Völckers Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1896
- Georg Hartmann, Fried Lübbecke: Alt-Frankfurt. Ein Vermächtnis . Verlag Sauer und Auvermann, Glashütten 1971
- Gustav Ide: Der Führer durch den Römer . Leo Heß, Frankfurt am Main 1938
- Hermann Meinert, Theo Derlam: Das Frankfurter Rathaus. Seine Geschichte und sein Wiederaufbau . Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1952
- Hans Pehl: Kaiser und Könige im Römer. Das Frankfurter Rathaus und seine Umgebung . Verlag Josef Knecht, Frankfurt 1980, ISBN 3-7820-0455-8
- Walter Sage: Das Bürgerhaus in Frankfurt a. M. bis zum Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1959, pp. 27 & 28, 93-99, 104
- Hermann Traut: Der Römer und die neuen Rathausbauten zu Frankfurt a. M .. 3. Auflage. Römerverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1924
- Carl Wolff, Rudolf Jung : Die Baudenkmäler von Frankfurt am Main - Volume 2, Weltliche Bauten . Selbstverlag / Völcker, Frankfurt am Main 1898, pp. 131-258
- Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: Der Architekt Max Meckel (1847–1910) . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, pp. 129–146
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