Old Chancellery (Aurich)

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The Aurich Historical Museum

The old chancellery in the East Frisian district town of Aurich ( district of Aurich , Lower Saxony ) is a listed building from the 16th century. Today it houses the city's historical museum .

Building description

The old chancellery is a two-storey plastered eaves building with a hipped roof . The passage is framed by pilasters .

history

Originally, the building was probably owned by Count Johann Cirksena . He probably had it built around 1530 as a town house from the stones of the abbey church in Ihlow, which was demolished in 1529 . When Johann left East Friesland, he sold his town house for 1000 thalers to his sister-in-law and Countess of East Friesland, Anna . This made it available to the city as a “council and wine house”.

When Count Edzard II moved his residence to Aurich in 1561, the count's office initially remained in Emden. It was only at the request of the Aurich citizenship and probably even more as a result of the Emden Revolution that the Aurich town hall became the official residence and official residence of Chancellor Thomas Franzius from 1609 . The town hall was relocated to a building on Burgstrasse and the corner of Marktplatz. Chancellor Franzius was succeeded by Dothias Wiarda , who lived in the building until his death in 1637. The office was moved to the new office in the Aurich castle district while he was still alive .

In 1701 Prince Christian Eberhard had the old chancellery rebuilt for his second wife Anna Juliane von Kleinau. From 1732 to 1870 it was used as an official residence for higher officials. After that it was the district office until the late 20th century, before the city of Aurich took over the building. On July 5, 1985, the Historical Museum was officially opened there by the Lower Saxony Minister Johann-Tönjes Cassens .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio: Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony . German art publisher; Edition: revision, greatly expanded edition. Munich, Berlin (January 1, 1992), ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 145.
  2. ↑ a b c Brigitte Junge: A worthy house. The Aurich "Alte Kanzlei" as a reflection of the Aurich history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 8, 2014.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.aurich.de  
  3. ↑ museum-aurich.de: From the history of the "Old Firm" . Accessed October 8, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 9.4 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 49.5"  E