Old Sydekum
The old Sydekum on the Bremer Schlagd
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The old Sydekum , also known as Südeküm , is a listed building in the old town of Hann. Münden in southern Lower Saxony . It should not be confused with the New Sydekum, which was built as a hotel elsewhere in Münden in 1783 .
description
The lower part of the Old Sydekum was originally a round bulwark of the medieval city fortifications of Münden and was one of the city's most important defensive structures. It stood in the northwest corner of the city at the Schlagdspitze, which form the Bremen and Wanfrieder Schlagd . The bulwark was integrated into the city wall . In addition to the bulwark, the fish gate, a structure similar to a wall tower, allowed people to pass through the city wall. The fish gate disappeared when the city fortifications were partially removed in the 1830s. In 1729 the old Sydekum received a multi-storey square building with a wine bar under the name Sydekum ( si dek um ). Grimm's dictionary cites the Mündener Sydekum as an example of a Low German form of “look around”. It is a place from which you can look around or a pleasure house with a beautiful view.
history
The builders of the Sydekum were Christoph Wendel Wüstefeld, Johann Dietrich Seedorf, Johann Daniel Köster and CH Balau. As the tenant of the wine cellar in the bulwark, they asked the city council in 1728 to build a wine tavern over it at the city's expense. After 12 years it should become the property of the city. The construction costs were around 800 thalers. Merchants and ship owners as well as respected citizens of the city frequented the Sydekum. In 1751 the Sydekum came into the possession of a Mündener citizen for 900 thalers . In 1789 the building was sold again for 1,600 thalers. A restaurant called Londonschenke was set up there. The name was later changed to the Harmonie Club , founded in 1808 , which had its seat there. From 1856 the building served the city as a customs and tax office .
On a copper engraving by Frans Hogenberg from 1584 the bulwark is shown that at that time was supporting a house structure. The construction of the house is missing on a Merian engraving from 1654. It was probably destroyed in 1626 during the siege of Münden by Tilly in the Thirty Years' War .
Since 1872 it has been the seat of the Masonic Lodge Pythagoras to the Three Rivers , founded in 1799 , the lodge renovated and expanded the building, and in 1929 it was rebuilt and added on. The lodge set up its temple or assembly room on the first and second floors , the temple was equipped with a half-timbered dome vault in the form of a starry sky. After the forced dissolution of all Masonic lodges imposed during the National Socialist era , the Pythagoras Lodge for the Three Rivers was dissolved in July 1935. As early as June 1936, the Gestapo and the SS Upper Section Fulda-Werra cleared out the box, valuable inventory items and Masonic paraphernalia were requisitioned and given to the district museum. The house was completely looted and the inventory was sold. 345 kg of files were destroyed as waste paper and the household appliances were auctioned off after all Masonic symbols had been removed. On November 6, 1936, the house was sold to the then city music director Kurt Schnittger for an amount of 10,000 Reichsmarks . In 1953 the building was returned to the Masonic Lodge by the State of Lower Saxony .
In 1984 the boarding of the house structure that was attached to the facade in the 19th century was removed. The framework became visible with a building inscription on a wooden beam. The inscription states the year of construction with 1729 and mentions the four builders. In 1994 the building was renovated through extensive restorations . In 1996 the building was included in the directory of Lower Saxony's architectural and cultural monuments .
The lodge house is partly used for public events and can u. a. can be visited on the day of the open monument .
Literature and Sources
- Johann Dietrich von Pezold: The old Sydekum. In: History on the Three Rivers. A glimpse into the past of the city of Hann. Münden on the Werra, Fulda and Weser. Hann. Münden, 2001, pp. 30-31.
- Our mouths. Contributions to the cultural and economic history of the urban area , Münden, 1987
- Tronmsdorff-GH: Contributions to the prehistory of Freemasonry in Hann.Münden . Goettingen 1929.
- Johann Heinrich Zacharias Willigerod - lawyer and urban history researcher. In: Mündener personalities from six centuries. (Ed.) Heimat- u. Historical Society Syekum zu Münden, Hann. Münden 2007
- Siegtried Lotze: Electoral Hessian Freemasons in Exile Connubium and Commerce - An investigation into the bourgeoisie using the example of the network around the Habich families in the 19th century. , Excerpts from the dissertation, University of Kassel 2010
- Website of the Lodge Pythagoras on the three rivers historical summary of the history of the old Sydekum
- Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage , Department: Non- State Provenance: Freemasons, daughter lodges (abbreviation: GStA PK FM 5. 2.) here: Hann.Münden (No. 68 under H) = Pythagoras to the 3 rivers
Web links
- Description of the old Sydekum as today's Freemason lodge house
- Data sheet for the old Sydekum at 574 house tracks ...
- Data server for the old Sydekum at 574 house tracks ...
Individual evidence
- ^ Britta Bielefeld: Get the monuments together . In: Göttinger Tageblatt on September 7, 2016
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 0.7 ″ E