Old monastery (Leipzig)

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Street front of the old monastery (2017)

Old monastery (also Becksche's house ) is the name of a residential and commercial building in Klostergasse No. 5 in Leipzig . It is one of the most beautiful of the few buildings from the late baroque ( rococo ) period in Leipzig and is a listed building .

Building description

The building complex of the old monastery is a four-wing complex with an inner courtyard of around 160 m². The four-story building parts have mansard roofs . The front of the Klostergasse is slightly bent because of its curvature in the middle. Its 15 window axes by two flat sides risalits easily divided over two windows and a central projection on three windows.

  • Gate entrance (2017)

  • Rococo on the central risalit (2017)

  • In the courtyard (2017)

The gate entrance is designed as a basket arch . It is flanked by two pairs of pilasters and closed by a four-winged oak gate with rococo carvings. Three more, somewhat smaller basket arch openings follow on the right and left. There is a restaurant on each of the two sides.

The central risalit shows flat rococo decorative elements with rocailles and is crowned by a curved roof bay window. The fields perpendicular between the windows change in the color gradient of their framing between the side elevations and the other surfaces and thus liven up the facade. On the steep part of the mansard roof are symmetrically distributed, six arched dormers and on the flat part five.

The side and rear buildings with three and nine window axes to the courtyard are unadorned images of the street front with rounded connecting angles, flat risalits and arched dormers.

history

Klostergasse to the south in 1912, the old monastery on the right

The old monastery stands on a site that until its secularization in 1541 belonged to the monastery of St. Thomas , a canon monastery of the Augustinian order founded in 1212 . In 1543 the city bought the monastery grounds. Around 1550 the councilor Georg Scherl had some new buildings built here, for which the name monastery was also used from the 17th century .

In 1750, the dealer Gottlieb Beck took over these half-timbered buildings and had the building, which has remained almost unchanged today , from the master builder George Werner (1682–1758), who had been working in Leipzig for over twenty years, and the carpenter Johann Leopold Müller in their place erect. The outer wall of the rear building was based on the old city wall, so that popular apartments with a clear view of the gardens over the Pleißemühlgraben and the floodplain were built here. On the first floor of the front building there were shop vaults, in that of the rear building there were storage rooms.

In the 1920s the "Altes Kloster" wine bar was opened, which not least contributed to the establishment of the current name. The upper floors were used as offices in addition to apartments. There was also a factory for small leather goods.

In 1992 the building was completely renovated together with the neighboring house No. 3 and was given the joint name Paulaner-Palais. The name comes from the fact that house no.3 was acquired in 1920 by the Munich Paulaner brewery to run a restaurant and after 1989 it was merged with no.5. In 2007 the restaurant moved to No. 5 as "Paulaner", where a café opened at the same time on the second half of the ground floor. Both institutions use the courtyard as a patio and organize cabaret events there in summer.

literature

Web links

Commons : Old Monastery  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Leipzig center (ID 09298315)
  2. ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 35/36
  3. ↑ Summer cabaret in the Paulaner-Palais. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 25.2 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 22.3 ″  E