Peppersack

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Peppersack

The Peppersack is a listed building in the Estonian capital Tallinn ( German  Reval ). The house is used as a restaurant.

location

It is located in the historic old town of Reval on the east side of the Old Market (Estonian Vana turg ) at the transition to Lehmstraße ( Viru tänav ) opposite the junction of Markthalsgasse ( Vanaturu kael ) and Rußstraße ( Vene tänav ) at the address Alter Markt 6, Lehmstrasse 2.

Architecture and history

The first documented mention of a development in this area comes from 1370. At that time there was a stone warehouse belonging to Tidemanus Crowel on the left side, which was used in particular to store grain. On the right was a wooden house that Crowel sold to Councilor Johan Duderstadt. In 1430 the camp belonged to the master mason Gerlich Witte, who was known for building the tower of the Reval Church of the Holy Spirit .

A merchant Gerke then built what is now the Alter Markt 6 house on the site of the wooden house in 1431. For this he took out loans totaling 300 Rigamark . In 1434 the house was completed. The building was largely able to retain its historical Gothic appearance. The stone foundations of the previous building were preserved. Gerlich Witte remained the owner of the warehouse and had it rebuilt and renovated in 1437.

In 1481 Margareta Lyffland was named as the owner of both houses. After German Potgeter became the owner around 1500, the property then belonged to master Hans Pepersack around 1520. The name, which was also a nickname for wealthy merchants, is now used to name the restaurant operated in the house. The house belonged to Hans Frossel as early as 1530. The family's coat of arms showing a frog can still be found today on the fall stone of the inner portal. Due to the negative effects of the Livonian War , the property was without an owner in 1574. In 1617 the house and warehouse were repaired. After the Reval was affected by the plague and a Russian siege in 1710 , the property was again uninhabited. In 1717 the Nottbeck family purchased the property and repaired it. Four painted beam ceilings that still exist today go back to the Nottbecks. In 1782, Margareta Helene Brockenhausen, who came from an old merchant family, became the owner. It was followed by the Russian dealer Artemi Mihhejew around 1790 and his widow Anna in 1810. In 1852 an old courtyard wing was torn down and replaced by a three-story brick building in which rental apartments were set up. The old warehouse was also converted into apartments according to plans by the government architect Gabler. The triangular gable of the warehouse was demolished. Regular rows of windows and a late classical facade design were created. In 1853 the merchant Pyotr Pavlov took over the property and had further renovations carried out. In 1857 a portal made in the Gothic style was removed. Extensive renovation work took place inside the building. In 1880, a historic roof covering was replaced by a tin roof. At the same time, a weathercock and a lion sculpture on the facade were removed . Around 1910, a shop was installed in the old warehouse facing Lehmstrasse and the windows were changed accordingly. In the gabled house, a small café with six tables and the name Gnoom was built around 1920 on the left-hand side, which is particularly popular with older women . On the right, an Agfa brand photo shop was operated from around 1935 .

In August 1940 the building was nationalized by the Soviet occupation. In 1960 the roof was re-covered. Efforts to renovate the monument to a large extent fail because there are no replacement apartments available for the tenants. A fourth corresponding project was presented in 1975, and its implementation began in 1978. Shortly before the tenants move out, a fire breaks out in which a person dies and the stairs are damaged. In 1979 a new Café Gnoom began to be built. However, the Polish state workshops for the preservation of monuments (PKZ) who carried out the construction do not implement the original project. The Gdańsk architect A. Maciur drafts new plans that take into account user wishes for a large restaurant. Courtyard buildings were demolished and replaced by a more spacious new building. Parts of the gabled house have been restored. In some cases, however, elements of the Polish Baroque were added instead of the Reval Gothic. On December 27, 1980 the new Café Gnoom opened. Today's Peppersack restaurant was built later.

Striking features of the building are the loading hatches and a loading boom in the facade .

The building was registered as a monument on April 15, 1997 and is registered under number 3097 in the Estonian Register of Monuments .

The Peppersack restaurant is designed as a medieval-themed restaurant.

Web links

Commons : Peppersack  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorsten Altheide, Heli Rahkema: CityTrip Tallinn . Reise Know-How Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-8317-2815-2 , page 88.

Coordinates: 59 ° 26 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 24 ° 44 ′ 47.9 ″  E