Abbey preparatory work

Schloßberg 11 around 1900

The abbey preparation is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located at Schlossberg 11, south of Quedlinburg's old town and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The street Schlossberg forms a square here, on the north side of which the house stands. Immediately to the west is the also listed building Schloßberg 10 , to the east is the Klopstockhaus . The entrance to the Feininger Gallery leads through the abbey preparation area. The building is registered as a Vorwerk in the Quedlinburg Monument Register.

Architecture and history

The two-storey residential building of the courtyard was built in half-timbered construction in around 1660. The courtyard served as the front of the abbey. The half-timbered facade of the residential building with its eaves is decorated with pyramid beam heads. There is a gate passage in the eastern half of the building. On the west side of the courtyard there are also two-story buildings, some of which were rebuilt in the 19th century.

The cassette door on the street side, used as a front door, dates from the 19th century.

literature

Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 740.
State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 228.

51.78689 11.135919Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '12.8 " N , 11 ° 8' 9.3" E