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town hall


town hall Środa Wielkopolska

Address
Środa Wielkopolska, Plac Zamkowy 1

Location
woj. wielkopolskie, pow. średzki, gm. Środa Wielkopolska - miasto

The Town Hall in Środa Wielkopolska after the adaptation of the former district court building is an example of public utility architecture in Wielkopolska, typical for a 19th-century district town in the Prussian partition.

History of the structure

The royal town of Środa Wielkopolska was founded from scratch (on the so-called raw root) between 1253 and 1281 under the Magdeburg Law or under its variant called Środa Śląska Law. In the times of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the assemblies of noblemen of the Kalisz and Poznań provinces gathered in the town. From 1793 Środa Wielkopolska was the seat of the district.

The original Gothic town hall located in the middle of the town’s main square was demolished in 1892. The seat of the magistrate was already moved in 1869 to the former district court building, erected in 1836 on the site of the old starost’s court, possibly using its preserved fragments. In 1910, a side wing with servants’ apartments was added to the building. In 1976-1977 the annexes located in the gable wing were demolished. In 1990, a renovation of the building began. In 1993, renovation work began on the elevations, which consisted of drying the building and laying new plaster. Currently, the building houses, among others, the Registry Office.

Description of the structure

The town hall in Środa Wielkopolska is located in the northeastern part of the old town to the east of the collegiate church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the northeast of the marketplace.

The town hall, built on a stone foundation with bricks arranged in a cross bond and plastered, was erected on a rectangular floor plan, with its longer side situated on the north-east-south-west axis. Adjacent to its southern side is a trapezoidal wing with a rounded former staircase located in its western corner, at the junction with the main body. The Town Hall is a two-storey building (the storeys are separated by a string course), with a cellar, a usable attic, covered with a gable roof over the main body and a hipped roof over the side wing. The roof truss features a double queen post. Communication to the first floor is provided by a reinforced concrete staircase covered in wood in the main body and a wooden staircase in the side wing. In some rooms cross vaults have been preserved.

Visitor access. The town hall is open to visitors from the outside.

Author of the note: Tomasz Łuczak, 18.12.2017

Bibliography

  • Dzieje Środy Wielkopolskiej i jej regionu, ed. St. Nawrocki, Środa Wielkopolska 1990, p. 105.
  • Wielkopolska. Słownik krajoznawczy, ed. Łęcki Włodzimierz, Poznań 2002, pp. 359-361.
  • Wielkopolskie ratusze, compiled by P. Maluśkiewicz, Poznań 2005, pp. 174-175.

Category: town hall

Architecture: Classicism

Building material:  brick

Protection: Register of monuments, Monuments records

Inspire id: PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_N_30_BK.167402, PL.1.9.ZIPOZ.NID_E_30_BK.142022