Red castle

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Red Castle - Büchel Museum exterior view

Rote Burg is the house name of a historic residential building in Aachen . It is located at Büchel (house number 14) and is entered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Aachen .

history

The original structure dates from the middle of the 15th century. It belonged to the Segraedt family , a family of Aachen lay judges who repeatedly appointed one of the mayors of the imperial city of Aachen during the 15th and 16th centuries . The house was originally called Rosenburg , the name Red Castle has been attested since the 17th century .

When the city ​​fire of Aachen in 1656, the half-timbered house burned down completely, only the brick vaulted cellar remained. The owner at the time, Arnold Coirman, sold the rear part of the property, which originally extended to Rommelsgasse, in 1660. In 1671 he sold the remaining property with the vaulted cellar to the copper master and councilor Folquin Fibus, who had the building rebuilt in 1671/72 as a two-storey building with a low mezzanine. Today's facade is essentially based on this reconstruction.

Over the course of the following centuries, the house changed hands several times, including from 1733 the Eupen dye works owner Leonard Thimus, father of the later Aachen mayor Heinrich Josef Freiherr von Thimus-Zieverich . In the early 19th century, the ground floor has been converted into a shop where a grocery store was established. Probably in the 19th century, the house was raised by a second floor, the facade of which was adapted in style to the lower floors. As part of a fundamental renovation, the mezzanine floor was removed in 1988/89 so that the ground floor was significantly increased.

In the 1960s to 1980s, the student bar Charlys Leierkasten was housed in the house. From 1997 the ground floor was used as a restaurant and the cellar as a dance bar. Since 2005, both floors have served as a restaurant. In 2018 the building was converted into a museum for graphics and art from the 19th century to the modern age. Apart from converting the kitchens into an exhibition room, no structural changes were necessary. The museum was opened under the name Büchel Museum with an exhibition of around 200 works by the Bohemian painter and graphic artist Emil Orlik .

architecture

The Red Castle is a two-storey building with an eaves gable roof . The facade is divided horizontally by cornices between the floors, the eaves protrudes far beyond the facade.

The five window axes are very close with no masonry between them, the windows are only separated from each other by the window frames made of bluestone . In the second axis from the right is the entrance door, to which a step leads up, in the right axis there is a separate entrance for the cellar. On the ground floor, the windows reaching down to the floor and the windows of the former mezzanine are one above the other. The windows on the ground floor have large panes of glass, the mezzanine and the two upper floors have lattice windows .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of monuments in the area of ​​the city of Aachen . in the version of the 18th supplement. September 27, 2016, p. 7 ( aachen.de [PDF; 129 kB ]).
  2. ↑ a b c d History of the Red Castle. In: Website of the Büchel Museum. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Pub Museum . In: The time . October 26, 1984, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 2, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Building on the Büchel: Aacheners have their “Red Castle” back. In: Aachener Nachrichten. December 27, 2018, accessed April 1, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '33.69 "  N , 6 ° 5' 7.06"  O