Artus Court of Gdansk

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The Artus Court with the Neptune Fountain
The Artushof with the town hall at night

The Gdańsk Artushof ( Polish: Dwór Artusa ) is a symbol of Gdańsk on the Long Market that has been rebuilt after severe war damage .

Building history

The Artushof was created as a result of the redesign of the city after the granting of the Kulmer instead of the Lübischen law in 1342. The new Artushof was assigned a parcel on the Long Market, so that as early as 1350 the " curia regis Artusi " was mentioned in writing. The building served as a meeting place for wealthy merchants and nobles who formed seven local brotherhoods . To this day, a beer counter reminds of the beer serving at that time.

A first stone building was built around 1380, but it burned down in 1476. In 1478 a new and larger Artus Court in the late Gothic style was started, which was opened in 1481. The northern facade was preserved from this reconstruction.

The magnificent facade of the Artushof on Long Market was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in 1552 and again in 1616/1617 a Mannerist redesign by the architect Abraham van den Blocke . The three Gothic windows were retained on the new front, but the building received an attic and a new portal. There were sculptures by Scipio Africanus , Themistocles , Marcus Furius Camillus and Judas Maccabeus on the windows , symbolizing the virtues of citizenship. Allegorical statues of justice, bravery and luck adorn the niches of the attic or the gable. The Artus Court in Danzig was the seat of the Danzig Stock Exchange from 1742 .

The 350 m² large hall of the Artus Court with its Gothic star vault is supported by four granite pillars. The lush interior of the Artus Court is famous, as are some Renaissance paintings, a late Gothic wooden sculpture of St. George and in particular a twelve meter high Renaissance tiled stove from 1545 to 1546 with 268 colored tiles. The furnace could also be relocated before the city was conquered by the Red Army in March 1945 and thus escaped destruction. Also worth seeing is the Last Judgment , 1603, by Anton Möller (1563–1611, went down in art history as “the painter of Danzig”). This large format oil painting was destroyed by a fire in 1945. A reconstruction, which the Polish artist Krzysztof Izdebski made on the basis of archive photographs, has been exhibited in the same place since 2000.

ETA Hoffmann set a literary monument to the building in his story The Artushof .

gallery

  • The Artus Court around 1900

  • Artus Court (2013)

  • Upper part of the building

  • View into the interior (1833)

  • Interior today

  • Detail of the roof

literature

  • Theodor Hirsch : About the origin of the Prussian Artus courts . In: Journal for Prussian History and Regional Studies . Volume 1, Issue 1, Berlin 1864, pp. 3–32 ( full text) .
  • ETA Hoffmann : The Artus Court . In: Hoffmann, ETA: Complete Works. Edited by Hartmut Steinecke and Wulf Segebrecht. Vol. 4 The Serapion Brothers. Frankfurt a. M. 2001 (= library of German classics; 175).

Web links

Commons : Artus Court in Gdańsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 55.8 ″  N , 18 ° 39 ′ 13.1 ″  E