Stadhuis - Antwerp - Flanders - Belgium Monument Registers on Waymarking.com

[ENG] It was erected between 1561 and 1565, after designs made by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and several other architects and artists. The building is listed as one of the Belfries of Belgium and France, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In the 16th century, Antwerp became one of the busiest trading ports and most prosperous cities in Northern Europe. The municipal authorities wished to replace the city's small medieval City Hall with a more imposing structure befitting the prosperity of the great port city. The local architect Domien de Waghemakere drafted a plan (c. 1540) for a new building in a style typical of the monumental Gothic town halls of Flanders and Brabant.

The threat of war, however, prevented any progress on the project. The building materials intended for the City Hall were instead used to shore up the city's defenses. It was not until about 1560 that new plans were developed. In the meantime, Gothic architecture had gone out of fashion, so the City Hall was designed in the new Renaissance style. Completed in 1565, the building lasted hardly a decade before being burnt to a shell in the Spanish Fury of 1576. It was restored three years later.

Antwerp's City Hall became an exemplar for the new Renaissance style in architecture in the Netherlands and Northern Europe. The Stadhuis of Vlissingen and of The Hague in the Netherlands and the design of the Rathaus of Emden and the portico of the Rathaus of Cologne (1557) in Germany and the Green Gate (designed by Regnier or Reiner of Amsterdam) in Gdansk, Poland were inspired by this new style.

[NL] Het stadhuis van Antwerpen bevindt zich op de Grote Markt in de Belgische stad Antwerpen. Het stadhuis staat op de lijst van het UNESCO-wereldcultuurerfgoed als onderdeel van de groepsinschrijving Belforten in België en Frankrijk.

Het stadhuis is een renaissancegebouw, ontworpen door de architect Cornelis Floris De Vriendt. Het is gebouwd tussen 1561 en 1564. Het stadhuis is overwegend gebouwd in de renaissancebouwstijl; de middelste sectie doet echter al denken aan de barok.

Adresse/Adres/Adresses/Address: Grote Markt 1 Antwerpen, Belgium 2000 Année de construction/Bouwjaar/Baujahr/Year of construction: 1564 Date d'arrêté/ Datum van het Besluit/ Datum der Unterschutzstellung/ Date of protection: February 6, 1936 Numéro de dossier/Dossiernummer/Dateinummer/File number: 4032 URL: [Web Link]

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