Altewiekrathaus

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Altewiekrathaus around 1750
The Altwiekrathaus. On the first floor the draperies' debts, in the background the roof of the Aegidienkirche .

The Altewiekrathaus was the city hall of the Weichbild Altewiek of the city of Braunschweig . It was located north of the Aegidienkirche on Aegidienmarkt , the medieval market square of this soft picture.

Compared to the old town hall, which is still preserved today, and the new town hall, which was badly damaged in the Second World War , the Altewiek town hall was far less significant, as this softened image had more of a village character in the late Middle Ages and early modern times.

Building history

A first council building was first mentioned in 1395. Around 1400, 21 so-called "standouts" were set up for the 21 cloth makers of Altewiek on the ground floor of the town hall . The basement of the building was rented and adjacent were the “scratches” (sales stalls) for the 29 bone tusks of the Weichbildes. In 1464 a new half-timbered building was built on the same site and stood there until it was demolished in 1752.

On the vacated space, the Brunswick court architect Georg Christoph Sturm built a house for the Angott wine merchant from 1754 to 1757, in which Gotthold Ephraim Lessing died on February 15, 1781. The house was destroyed in World War II and in 1976 the Leisewitz House , originally built around 1680 on Wallstrasse, was moved in its place (where Johann Anton Leisewitz died , who lived in it from 1788–1806).

literature

  • Elmar Arnhold: Altewiekrathaus. In: Medieval metropolis Braunschweig. Architecture and urban architecture from the 11th to 15th centuries. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2018, ISBN 978-3-944939-36-0 , p. 191.

Web links

Commons : Altewiekrathaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Spies (Ed.): Braunschweig - The image of the city in 900 years. History and views , Volume 1, Braunschweig 1985, p. 6
  2. ^ Hermann Dürre : History of the City of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages , Braunschweig 1861, p. 731
  3. ↑ Gerd Spies (Ed.): Braunschweig - The image of the city in 900 years. History and Views , Volume 1, Braunschweig 1985, p. 15
  4. ↑ Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, p. 11
  5. ↑ Leisewitzhaus. In: BLIK - Braunschweig guidance and information system for culture. City of Braunschweig, accessed on September 22, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Ostwald: The double house of death. In: The Loewe. Portal of the Braunschweigische Stiftungen , February 12, 2016, accessed on September 22, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 35.9 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 32.7 ″  E