Old Klopstock

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Old Klopstock
Photo from 1893

The Alte Klopstock is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The half-timbered house is located at Stieg 28 , on the corner of Hell and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . It is registered as a merchant's house in the Quedlinburg monument register. The name of the building goes back to the family of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , who temporarily owned the house. The house is located in a corner that shapes the surroundings and is of particular importance in terms of urban development.

Architecture and history

The rather large house was built according to a building inscription in 1580 during the Renaissance in the Lower Saxony style. The tailor Hermann Schimmelmann is believed to be the client . The monogram GW for Georg Weberlin can be found in the corner house. The facade is lavishly decorated. There are dew sticks , ship throats and wooden feet decorated with carving . Towards the Stieg street there is a box oriel in the Renaissance style and also a gate entrance. In addition, the old merchant's house also has loading hatches on two floors . Originally there were open galleries facing the courtyard, the parapets of which were decorated with sawn Draljen and were renewed. In the hall of the house there is a large, free-standing, carved column that supports an important girder of the house and is marked with the year 1603. There are various dates on the house facade, including the numbers 1605 and 1633, whereby it is assumed that these are related to the renovations of the house.

The property also includes a tall half-timbered house, which was formerly used as a warehouse, which is dated to the year 1564 according to a building inscription. Jakob Mertens is named in the inscription as the builder. It is covered by a steep gable roof. The loading hatch of the store has a keel arch shape . Here, too, there are leg angles. Two with monograms provided coats of arms date back to 1605. 1633 was caught on the building.

The road toward hell a built in floor construction barn, which was later converted for residential purposes and a large gate with loading doors on the upper floor and also arranged between the two buildings was located next to the east wing of the estate Zwerchhaus .

There are also fan rosettes on both buildings .

In 1744 a cousin of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Georg Karl Klopstock (1708–1777), bought the house. In 1833, Christiane Magarethe Klopstock, the last member of the female line of the Klopstock family, who had lived in Quedlinburg since 1654, died in this house.

During the classicism period , parts of the house were redesigned. Windows and decorative lining of the compartments were created in the style of the time. Around 1900 a shop was built on the ground floor.

In the years 1979 to 1982 extensive renovation work was carried out, which also affected the neighboring houses at Hell 1, 2 . A total of ten apartments were set up in the houses. 180 m³ of wood and 250,000 bricks were used for the work. Six fire gables and a massive staircase in the east wing were added to the building complex, which resulted in significant changes to the structure of the framework. Initially, it was planned to remove the ceiling beams from the east wing. However, after the beams were exposed, their condition was found to be good and could be preserved. They were fed up to 30 centimeters. There were steps between the rooms. In the west wing, a strong sagging of the ceiling beams was found, as these had been inserted lying on their wider side. Therefore, two 50 centimeter thick steel cross members were drawn in. The ceiling beams were fastened to these girders at a point one third of their length using round iron .

On the west wing, historical window bars have been preserved on the second floor, which was previously used as a warehouse . In order to preserve these bars, a two-story studio apartment was set up on the north side of the house . It received skylights and an open gallery. A wooden staircase in the corner building could be preserved by creating an additional escape route to the massive new staircase. In the hallway of the house, in which, in addition to the preserved staircase, there is also the column from the year 1603, a door from the Renaissance period was inserted, which was found in a badly damaged condition at an entrance to the attic.

According to old findings, the framework components were predominantly painted black and the compartments white. Some carved elements were given a red color. The compartments facing the courtyard were provided with commas and trimmings, which were also made according to the findings. In the 18th century, the house had a uniform reddish color, both on the wood and in the compartments.

Sheds and barns that existed on the property but were no longer usable were demolished. In its place, a pigeon tower was built in 1981 , which until then stood in the courtyard of Steinweg 18 . In part, it is also assigned to the neighboring property, Stieg 29 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 145
  2. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 111
  3. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 45
  4. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 145
  5. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 111
  6. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 111
  7. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 57
  8. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 111 f.
  9. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 112
  10. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 112
  11. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 112

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '22.3 "  N , 11 ° 8' 36.6"  E