Autorshof

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Author's yard from the northeast
Coat of arms of Duke Rudolf August of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel on the gable

The Autorshof was built in 1681 on the north side of the old town hall on Breiten Straße in Braunschweig and was named after the author's chapel , which stood there from 1380 to 1679 and was dedicated to the city's patron saint, St. Author (also St. Auctor ).

History and description of the building

The Autorshof was used to display and sell furniture from the carpenters' guild during the Braunschweig trade fair .

The building originally had a simple facade with an early baroque central portal . This was made around 1630 by Ulrich Stamm , a Braunschweig sculptor. The main facade of the building today shows diamond cuboids above the ground floor with diamond cuboids smoothly ground at the window openings. The edges of the diamond blocks of the door frames on the ground floor are decorated or ornamented.

The roof bay shows a split- segment gable typical of the late Renaissance . There are volutes on the side of the bay window . In the middle of this blown gable is the stone coat of arms of Duke Rudolf August von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1627–1704). The facade is made of smooth red Braunschweig roe stone , which almost certainly comes from the Nussberg in Braunschweig, and the ornamentation is made of pale yellowish Elm limestone . To emphasize the building corner formation, individual natural stones are also made of Elm limestone,

In 1855 it was rebuilt in the late Renaissance style by the Braunschweig master builder Krahe . The coat of arms of Duke Rudolf August, the founder of the Braunschweig fair, was also attached to the gable. The building was partially destroyed in the Second World War . It was rebuilt in modern forms from 1983 to 1984, incorporating the facade that had been preserved. Today the city of Braunschweig uses this building; the ground floor is used as an exhibition space for the municipal museum .

literature

  • Günter Jahn: Autorshof , In: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , p. 25, Braunschweig 1992
  • Richard Moderhack : Brunswick town history . Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-87884-050-0 , pp. 127, 223, 235

Web links

Commons : Autorshof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 47.4 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 1 ″  E