Soest town hall

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Soest town hall

Domplatz

59494 Soest

Telephone: 02921-1036110

willkommen@soest.de

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Aldermen are first mentioned for Soest in 1213 and a town hall appears in the documents for the first time in 1229. All that remains of the 13th century town hall and its outbuildings is the northern wing of the council chamber. The main building had to be demolished in 1706 due to dilapidation and was replaced in 1713/14 by the larger, present-day west wing.

This is one of the most beautiful Baroque buildings in the town and testifies to the town's desire for representation and its renewed economic strength after the Thirty Years' War. The plaster building with its nine-arched hall is strictly symmetrical, right down to the chimneys, one of which had no function from the outset

. The western façade is adorned with the town coat of arms with shield-holding wild men and the town saint St. Patroklus in the front gable. The "Blue Hall" is located on the first floor of the building. Measuring 22.8 m x 10.6 m and 9.05 m high, this hall has a round-arched wooden barrel vault, which is painted blue on the underside and decorated with gold-backed glass stars. It was intended to create the illusion for the council of meeting in the open air, as was customary in Germanic times.

Between the west wing of the town hall and the westwork of the St. Patrokli collegiate church once stood the Rumeney, the town wine house and official residence of the "Brotherhood of Schleswig Drivers", first mentioned in 1291 and probably demolished in 1706.