Old town house (Aurich)

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The old town house in the Aurich pedestrian zone (September 2015)

The old town house in the East Frisian district town of Aurich ( Aurich district , Lower Saxony ) is a listed building from the 17th century. It has the address Burgstrasse 48 and is one of the oldest surviving residential buildings in Aurich. For a long time, the building was considered the city's first town hall. This thesis has now been refuted, because the building was originally a “full noble house ”.

history

The general superintendent and court preacher Michael Walter had it built around 1630 in the style of the late Renaissance . After that it belonged to several Aurich families. The front was probably plastered in the 19th century. The house remained in this condition until chief building director Dietrich Müller-Stüler had it demolished and rebuilt in 1964. In the course of the work, the facade was restored using the original sandstone elements. The hatch for the pulley system in the gable was also restored. Today the building is used as a residential and commercial building.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Aurich.de: Sights. Altes Bürgerhaus ( Memento from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hinrich Schoolmann: Our dear little town - A walk through the old Aurich , Verlag AHF Dunkmann KG, Aurich 1975, without ISBN. P. 15
  3. ↑ Architecture picture archive: Commercial building at Burgstrasse 48 . Retrieved October 14, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 9.8 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 41.7"  E