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110 Petre Beşliu Munteanu south-west and the south-east (reducing the Mitropoliei Street- formerly Macelarilor- lot) to harbour the ever increasing number of documents, the cereals that constituted the city’s strategic reserve and the horse shelters. The expense list of the city magistrate in the year 1545 makes mention of the expenses for the arranging of a prison space, a meeting space and other construction expenses. A large sum is used again in 1585 for building expenses at the townhall. The assumption that this sum of money was spent to extend the building was confirmed to have taken place at the date of 1574, mentioned on the escutcheon of a tailor painted on the front of a neighbouring house on the Macelarilor Street. The natural conclusion is that during the above mentioned period the plot of the house on Macelarilor Street was reorganized, which led to an opportunity for the Magistrate to obtain a strip of land where he built an extension of the building. Later on the front of the house in the corner of the street was built into the Townhall building and the windows with a fronton dated by the architect Hermann Fabini around the year 1300 were walled up. In 1545 the meeting room was restored using foreign cloths, and the roof was mended and then extended. A console in the form of a cannon barrel with its projectile on the muzzle is also worth mentioning. This ornament along with its arc abutment is the work the stone-masons in the second half of the 16 th century. The laboratory analysis showed that the raw material used to manufacture the abutment does not belong to the same quarry as the lime-stone used for making the decorations belonging to the late gothic period. The Townhall was also used for theatrical representations, for the precessions of appointment of high city officials, for the meetings of the Hundertmanschaft, of the interior and exterior council (both administrative institutions of the city); it was also connected to the activity of the Villicus (administrator of the city who was also head of the city police), to the safekeeping of the city’s weapons, to the popular uprisings as a result of discontentment with the work of the city’s civil sevants, to epidemics and to celebrations. These two latterly mentioned historical occurrences are illustrated by the discovery in the latrine pit of a large number of glass objects, luxury ceramics, kitchenware, and also pharmaceutical vials. We assume that these recipients were dumped into the latrine and cremated after an outbreak of pestilence that occurred in 1738-1739. The Habsburg rule brings little change: the inscription praising Joseph II indicates that the present-day entrance (also the only entry gate into the courtyard) had already been built this way when the emperor visited in 1773. In the small courtyard a booth was arranged for torturing the prisoners. We don’t know when the well in the courtyard of the Townhall was fitted. Nor do we know an accurate date for the building of the linings imitating the vault-
Primăria Veche din Sibiu - casa, oamenii, muzeul 111 stones of Romanic buildings. Their association with vegetal motifs in several sites from Sibiu, the use of painted plaster for frequently repaired buildings indicates a post-medieval construction period. At the end of the 17 th century the building was fitted with the painted ceiling from the “connecting body”, and in 1702 a painted door was installed. One of the pillars of the medieval society in Sibiu was justice established through a practice of penalties. The tablet that praises the virtues of justice (an item originating from the Townhall and dating from 1545) had probably been fitted in the large room upstairs or the one on the ground floor. Lower, the cellars were used as prison. The niches for sustaining the beams formerly built into the wall, probably used for chaining prisoners, add to the information found in the archive, in the bibliography and museum kept objects. In special cases the prisoners were certainly crowded in the upper floor of the residence tower. A new stage of extension towards the south-east, this time including the entire building, was set at the end of the 19 th century, being caused by the modernization of society, by the appearance of separate police, archive and firefighting departments, by the appearance of the first town museum in the form of a Weapon’s Room at the upper floor of the tower. The need for space for the departments of the townhall led to even the loggia being walled-up. After the prison was no longer used repairs were undergone in the cellar. We don’t know when upper floor of the tower was given up because of its uselessness and difficult maintenance. It was rebuilt during the restoration undergone at standards specific to the period during the 60s and 70s of the 20 th century. The building was damaged in recent years by dampness which called for further repairs to solve the problem. On this occasion the archeological research extended becoming exhaustive. The constructors conceded to arrange a show case inside room 12 to reveal a piece from the foundation of the house and to drain the place around the underground clay structure. In the ditches dug out for draining and sewerage there wasn’t found though the large wooden pipe on the line of which the well that the 19 th century graphic representation recorded. The pipe’s line was marked though in the small courtyard going down near The Lion Pit towards the lower city. Therefore we invite the reader to visit the building and the exhibited collections of History Museum, part of The Brukenthal Museum. With all its historic charge of 700-800 years, the building, its historic artifacts and its new function has become a true palace of memories. Traducere de Adrian şi Viorel Savu
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