Achtermann's house

The Achtermann house

The Achtermannsche Haus in Braunschweiger Reichsstraße 3 was built during the Thirty Years' War from 1626 to 1630 for the mayor and merchant Georg Achtermann (1584–1656) and his wife Lucia von Strombeck (1589–1641) from Goslar Ulrich Stamm († 1633) built.

The building

The Reichsstraße with the Achtermann House, on the left. Drawing around 1909

The patrician house had a cantilevered half-timbered floor over two solid floors. After a restoration in 1936, the building was destroyed during the Second World War with the bombing on the night of October 15, 1944, except for the massive outer walls.

In the years 1947 to 1949 the reconstruction, financed by the company Wullbrandt & Seele , was carried out by Herman Flesche and K. Flesche. The former half-timbered storey was built in stone.

The Achtermannsche House has one of the most beautiful preserved portals in Braunschweig with rich figural decorations and cartilage . Depicted are the virtues of strength, abstinence, love, hope and faith. In the center above the portal, the couple's Achtermann von Strombeck double coat of arms is shown. Above to the right, master builder Stamm has immortalized himself in an iron anchor with his work mark , the symbol of Braunschweig Neustadt . Furthermore, Stamm's first and last name, his stonemason's mark and the year are stamped into the stone architrave of the bay window.

Today the Achtermannsche Haus is an office building of the city of Braunschweig.

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  portal

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  Portal detail

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  coat of arms

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  Bay window

The builder

Architrave of the bay window : Ulrich Stamm's first and last name ( “VLRIG STAM” ), his stonemason's mark and year ( “1630” ) of the origin.

The master builder of the house, Ulrich Stamm, came from Hohensyburg and became a citizen of the Weichbild Altewiek in 1617 . He is probably the builder of other portals in the city, such as the Stechinelli House , the Autorshof , the Mumme House , which has now been destroyed, and the Kalm House, which was also destroyed . Stamm died in Braunschweig in 1633 and found his grave at the Martinikirche .

literature

• Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 1: Inner City. S. 273, Cremlingen 1995, ISBN 3-927060-11-9 .
• Reinhard Roseneck : Achtermannsches house. in: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 9-10 .

Web links

Commons : Achtermannsches Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sights: Achtermannsches Haus on the website of the city of Braunschweig
• Current and historical photography from 1936 ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 595 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 2 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 18 ″  E