Arnoldi House
The Arnoldi House is a 1513 built, today as a cultural monument been instructed half-timbered house in Warburg . It is located in Warburg's old town, Bernhardistraße 2, at the corner of Arnoldigasse, belongs to the old town's parish and is used as a parish hall. The name is reminiscent of the Jesuit father Johannes Arnoldi, who was born in Warburg in 1596 .
architecture
With its dimensions of 15.05 × 16.67 m and a height of approx. 22 m, the main building is one of the largest medieval half-timbered houses in Westphalia . Inside is a nearly six meter high Flettdeele, restored between 1969 and 1972 . Above that, a former storage floor is trimmed separately, which protrudes on the sides of the street. Filling boards, the decorative painting of which dates from the construction period, are arranged between the beam heads. On the gable side, the uprights of the storage floor are decorated with St. Andrew's crosses and on the eaves side facing the alley with curved foot struts. The gable framework is simple. At the rear of the house, a somewhat narrower rear building with two halls one above the other is built on a high basement plinth.
According to the spatial arrangement, the Arnoldihaus is an early urban form of the Flettdeelenhaus , which was of great importance for the later development of the Westphalian and Lower Saxony farmhouse . “Flettdeele” is the name given to the lengthways, two-storey high interior, which extends in a T-shape into the two aisles in front of the front wall, which is adjusted by the rear building, for the purpose of lateral exposure. This rear part of the deel, the Flett, was the actual living space for the large arable family. In the middle in front of the cellar wall burned - still without a chimney - the open hearth fire as the only heating and nocturnal light source, the smoke of which permeated the whole house and preserved the food. The left high part of the Flett was the dining room, where people came together for meals. It used to have a - not restored - exit to the garden and was lit through high windows. The right-hand niche, on the other hand, is only halfway high, with the middle row of stands being supported by a strong light beam. It had a sink to the alley and was used for housekeeping, which is why it was also called washroom. At the front next to the hearth there are stairs that lead to the rear hall. The cellar, which consists of four groin vaults , was also accessed from the Deele. Its location in the back of the house is an essential feature of the arable houses in this South Westphalian region. It resulted from the fact that the front, economically used part of the house had to be accessible for vehicles at ground level, as the storage floors were loaded from the inside.
history
In the door beam is the inscription: "Anno dm-M ° ccccc ° xiii ° iv aprili, henrick santmā". Thereafter, the house was built on April 4, 1513 by Henrick Santman. Santman came from Korbach, but lived in Warburg before 1500. At that time he belonged to the circle of influential merchants in the region and was active in both wholesaling and grain trading. Until his death in 1546 he was elected mayor several times.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the inner hall space was made smaller by means of false ceilings and the gable tops were hipped.
In the 20th century, the owner of the house at the time, master baker Josef Friedel and his wife Anna bequeathed the house to the old town parish. In 1936 the parish took over the house and grounds and left it to the Sisters of the Order of St. Vincent Paderborn . They rented a large part of the building called "Friedelhaus" as apartments and set up a sewing school in the extension.
In 1952 the building became the scene of a murder. The victim was 16-year-old Klara Wendehals, who worked as a domestic help for the Vincentians. The perpetrator was a 15-year-old boy who lived with his parents in what was then known as the Friedel House. The teenager lured the young girl into his parents' apartment and tried to rape her. Because she struggled and screamed for help, he choked her and smashed her skull in with an ax. He then hid the body in the basement and tried to escape, but was soon picked up by the police. Klara Wendehals was buried in her home town of Daseburg with great sympathy among the population . The murder victim was transfigured by the church as a martyr of chastity and as a model example of the “discipline of girls”.
From 1969 to 1972 the house was thoroughly reconstructed, restoring the Flettdeele and the pointed gable facing the street. Since then it has been used as a community center with a hall, library and sewing room. It is planned to secure the roof structure with a renewal of the tile covering in 2013.
literature
- Fred Kaspar: Half-timbered buildings in Westphalia before 1600. Coppenrath, Münster 1978, ISBN 3-920192-69-9 ( contributions to popular culture in north-west Germany 14). ( Full text as PDF )
- Elmar Nolte: On the secular building of the medieval city of Warburg. In: Franz Mürmann (ed.): The city of Warburg. 1036-1986. Contributions to the history of a city. Volume 2. Hermes, Warburg 1986, ISBN 3-922032-07-9 , p. 163.
- Neue Westfälische: Colorful worlds 500 years ago LWL monument preservationists discover rare facade painting at Arnoldihaus , Warburg June 27, 2012.
- Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: Warburg district. With a historical introduction by Gerhard Pfeiffer. Aschendorff, Münster 1939 ( architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 44).
- Josef Schepers: Westphalia in the history of the north-west German town house and farmhouse , in: Der Raum Westfalen, Vol. 4, Münster 1965, pp. 125–222.
- Josef Schepers : House and farm of Westphalian farmers , Münster 1960, p. 53.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '7.2 " N , 9 ° 8" 52.2 " E