Altetopfstrasse 7 (Quedlinburg)

Altetopfstrasse 7

The house Altetopfstraße 7 is a listed half-timbered building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . It was built in 1520/1521.

location

The building is located south of the historic Quedlinburg old town, on the south side of Altetopfstrasse. The building, which is also listed, is adjacent to Altetopfstraße 8 to the west. The house is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register as a residential building and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Architecture and history

The eaves, two-storey half - timbered house is seven compartments wide and was built in the late Gothic style. The barrel of the sandstone cellar is dated to " 1520 " by an inscription . The upper floor cantilevers well. As decorative elements can be found with carvings provided Bügen and anklets. There is a large gateway in the eastern half of the house. The roof structure is dendrochronologically dated to the year 1521. In older literature, the period around 1550 was assumed to be the time of construction.

literature

• Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 748.
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 56.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 748

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 17.2 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 10.5 ″  E