Old Segeberg town house

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Facade of the museum building

The old Segeberg town house was already known at the end of the 19th century as the oldest house in the city of Segeberg and is now one of the few surviving small town town houses in Schleswig-Holstein from the beginning of the early modern period . As a simple hall house , it was built in half-timbered construction with brick infills in 1541 and expanded and rebuilt several times in the following centuries. Since its complete renovation in 1963/64 it has included the “Heimatmuseum” of the city of Bad Segeberg. In its historic rooms, exhibits from the petty-bourgeois living and working world of the 19th and 20th centuries were shown in the first decades. After the Bad Segeberg Adult Education Center took over the sponsorship in 2012, new permanent exhibitions on historical subjects of the city were gradually created.

The construction, 1541

Just a few years after the almost complete destruction of Segeberg during the feud of the counts in 1534, a first half-timbered building was rebuilt on the site of today's Lübecker Straße 15 . The emergence of the emergency can still be seen in the interior of a number of components. The house of the owner Marten Sluter is already listed again in the register of landlords in the council book from around 1540. It consisted only of a large hall , to which a low room and a kitchen with an open fireplace were added on the eastern side - presumably under a tub . Although the house looks extremely simple by today's standards, its first residents must be counted among the wealthy citizens of Segeberg. The early owners included councilors, bailiffs and mayors as well as the Danish governors Marquart Pentz and Heinrich Rantzau . Due to the regional political development of Segeberg from a medieval residence to an insignificant craft town since the 17th century, the socio-cultural value of the craftsman's house continued to decline. For this reason - despite all subsequent renovations - the original features of the half-timbered building were preserved for centuries and thus outlasted the Thirty Years' War and several city fires.

Extensions and conversions, 1584/88 to 1963

In the years 1584 to 1588 considerable renovations took place: With the addition of a second floor, the so-called "Upkamer" was created above the living room and kitchen, a low bedroom with "Utluchten", which could only be reached via a high hatch and which stretched up to received today as a structural feature. To this day, however, the street-side gable framework wall with its richly decorated wood carvings, which was placed in front of the demolished original north wall between 1584 and 1588, is still evident. To this day, the house with this "protruding" gable wall protrudes from the street. The workshop on the south gable wall, which was added under a tented roof before 1805, was given a second floor in 1814 under the now extended roof for a granny flat or apartment for the elderly. After a partition on the western side of the Althaus hall, two living rooms and a second kitchen were created here. The open fireplaces, which had previously only been built over with candle arches , now received chimney flues that lay diagonally on the roof beams and pierced the roof ridge as chimneys. The construction date of a cellar in the southwest corner of the stable extension with walls made of loose boulders is no longer known.

Partial view of the exhibition

Museum, since 1964

In 1949 the city acquired the listed building, which, despite its dilapidation, served as a residential building for another ten years; then it should be demolished due to the massive risk of collapse. State funds enabled the preservation and the extensive restoration in 1963/64. In November 1964, the wall stand construction was ceremoniously opened as the municipal "Heimatmuseum Alt-Segeberger Bürgerhaus". After the intention to close the museum in 2010, a donation from the Jürgen Wessel Foundation ( Lübeck ) was able to secure the continued operation of the museum. Since 2012, it has been run by the Bad Segeberg Adult Education Center as the historical "Museum Alt-Segeberger Bürgerhaus", which is responsible for the successive implementation of a new museum concept: In five rooms, the exhibition explains "500 years of development of bourgeois living culture in a 470 year old Haus “the researched history of the residents and buildings of the community center. The second permanent exhibition "800 years of Segeberg's history - from medieval castle settlement to modern health resort" traces the changeful development of the Kalkbergstadt. Special exhibitions complement the presentation throughout.

Curiosities

Contrary to the findings from architectural studies and historical sources alike, the popular belief that the Segeberg community center was built in 1606 persisted. This error probably goes back to the (unoccupied) memory of a builder who, on the occasion of a facade renovation in 1927, remembered that about 30 years earlier there was a small cross with the year "1606" in the top gable. The (false) assumption that the building date of the town house was dated with this year has persisted for decades. After an oak board with the carved year "1606" had already been attached to the base beam of the gable in 1927, the town house, which had now been converted into a local museum, received a wooden board with the inscription " ANNO DOM " in 1964 . 1606 ". With the opening of the 2013 museum season, this misleading sign was replaced by a beech board on which the printmaker Christopher Coltzau from Wahlsted carved the correct inscription "ANNO DOM. 1541".

literature

  • Friedrich Saeftel: The old Segeberger town house. Building history and restoration , special edition, in: Die Heimat, Heft 10, Bad Segeberg 1966, pp. 313–322.
  • Friedrich Stender: The community center in Schleswig-Holstein , Tübingen 1971, pp. 14-18.
  • Holger Reimers / Nils Hinrichsen: The old Segeberger community center. From the town house of the 16th century to the town museum in the 21st century , in: Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Torgau and the building of houses in the 16th century, yearbook for house research, vol. 62, Marburg 2015, pp. 341–355.
  • Thomas P. Kersten, Simon Deggim, Felix Tschirschwitz, Maren Lindstaedt, Nils Hinrichsen: The Alt-Segeberger Bürgerhaus - A Museum and its Building History in Virtual Reality , in: DenkMal! Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein, vol. 25 (2018), pp. 123–130.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Tschentscher: The past becomes the present again. The property at Lübecker Straße 15 in the XVI century , in: Segeberger Zeitung 273, 23 Nov. 1964
  2. ↑ Horst Tschentscher: Is the year 1606 correct? It is about the year of construction of the oldest Segeberg house , in: Segeberger Zeitung No. 229, Oct. 2, 1965

Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 10.9 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 50.5 ″  E