House star
The House star ( stella curia ) is a 1340 erbauter medieval Adelshof in Warburg . Today it is used as a municipal museum ( Museum im Stern ) and city archive.
history
The building was built between 1339 and 1340 as a solid stone house and its essential parts (outer walls, ceilings and roof structure) have been preserved in their original form. Originally, it contained a high economic dome facing Sternstrasse with a low storey above it. It was heated by an open fire and the smoke was drawn off through a wooden chimney. The rear part contained two halls one above the other, which were heated with wall chimneys.
In the Middle Ages, the house was residential and farm buildings for various noble families (initially von der Windelen , from 1460 von Calenberg , from 1628 from and to Niehausen ) and citizens (from 1708 Böttrich , from 1741 Thonnienhaus ).
In 1748 it became the property of the Wormeln Monastery and was redesigned in Baroque style in 1755 (chronogram above the entrance). During the Seven Years' War the house was the preferred quarters of the generals on both sides and accommodated a. a. the French General Marshal Duke Victor-François de Broglie , the English General John Manners, Marquess of Granby , the Prussian General Field Marshal Prince Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau , the Hessian Lieutenant General Eitel von und zu Gilsa and, after the Battle of Warburg, the General Field Marshal Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel .
In 1787 the Wormeln Monastery, represented by its abbess, Humbelina Rosenmeyer, sold the star to her uncle, the Warburg mayor at the time, Balthasar Philipp Rosenmeyer , from whom the Blome family inherited it. From 1880 to 1884, under District Administrator Karl von Delius, the District Office of the Warburg district was located in the building.
In 1920 it was acquired by the city of Warburg and initially rented out as a tax office and the Dr. Arnold Levy, who had a doctor's practice there until his death in 1934. After the tax office moved out in 1958, the cash desk was used temporarily by the Gütersloh textile company Vossen to manufacture towels and bathrobes before the branch on the upper Hilgenstock was completed. The city also set up the city archive and administrative offices there.
In 1968 a small local history museum was built on the ground floor. In 1988 the top floor was expanded as an exhibition and lecture room and the entire building was modernized for sole use as a museum and city archive.
Sternstrasse was named after the house.
literature
- Mürmann, Franz: Der goldene Stern , Volume I. of the series of publications of the Museum Association Warburg, Warburg 1988
- Nolte, Elmar: Research report on the building fabric and building history of the Stern house in Warburg , Warburg 1989
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 15.8 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 52 ″ E