Stock Exchange (Quedlinburg)

Börse, on the right the eastern half-timbered part from 1677

Stock exchange in 1951

The stock exchange is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The building, Steinweg 23, is located in the historic Neustadt Quedlinburg, at the confluence of Reichenstrasse and Steinweg, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Architecture and history

The three-storey representative half-timbered house was built by the master carpenter Andreas Besen in the Baroque style . It is the earliest known work by Besen in Quedlinburg. In addition to the abbreviation of the builder AZM and the builder Andreas Kemmrich and his wife Anna Margaretha, an inscription names 5th May as the year of construction in 1683 . The inscription also contains a blessing. The inscription M. ANDREAS BEHSE ZM , which refers to a broom, has also been painted on . Kemmrich, who bought the neighboring house at Steinweg 24 in 1680 , was also active in the field of brewing barley , brewing, iron and wood.

The façade design is remarkable with its headbands protruding far and bay windows, roof structures and components protruding from the wall. Individual compartments of the framework are decorated with double cross bracings, so-called diamond crosses . The pyramid beam heads typical of Quedlinburg can also be found on the building . There are ship throats on the sleepers . Above the two-storey, three-axis box bay facing the Steinweg there is a dwarf house . On the south side, there are two arched loading hatches on the second floor and in the roof . The bay window at the corner of the building is polygonal . The façade facing Reichenstrasse also has a two-story box bay window that is covered with a roof .

The house has all the decorative elements typical of Quedlinburg at the time, but with the modification of traditional structural members it represents a further development of the half-timbered construction in Quedlinburg. The current dark red color scheme of the facade goes back to the late Baroque design . During the construction period, the wood was probably painted dark brown, while the compartments were possibly brick-faced with white grout.

The house also has a half-timbered house on the east side, which was originally built as an independent building. This simple three-story half-timbered house was built in 1677 by Peter Dünnehaupt for the client Hans Dittmer. The inscription MPD, decorated with a coat of arms, refers to Dünnehaupt. The framework is designed with pyramid beam heads , profiled filler wood and flat ship throats . Decorative infills in the framework are lined with bricks.

The Blankenburg brewery Glückauf was the owner of the stock exchange until 1904 . She ran the popular Zur Börse restaurant on the ground floor of the building . In 1903 the magistrate criticized the poor structural condition of the house. The local history and antiquity association asked the city to buy the building to stop the decay. Also taking into account the importance of the house for tourism, Quedlinburg signed the purchase agreement on January 21, 1904 and acquired the stock exchange for 26,500 marks. The city began cleaning the facade and painting the building with oil paint .

There was an entrance to the house from both Steinweg and Reichenstraße with windows on the side of the doors. In 1904 the ground floor of both houses was redesigned and shops were designed in a coordinated manner, although the ground floor had already been converted in the centuries before. A round arched door was created. The model for their design was the design of the loading hatches. Above the door, based on a mezzanine floor originally in the building, a ribbon of windows was initially planned, but was not implemented.

In 1909 the city council of Quedlinburg issued a local statute with which the so-called disfigurement of the streets should be prevented from the point of view of monument protection. The stock exchange was already included in this statute.

literature

• Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer u. a .: Administrative region of Magdeburg. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 745.
• 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. 250.
• Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg. A guide to the world heritage city. 13th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , p. 46.

Web links

• Information on the half-timbered educational path to the stock exchange

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 150
2. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 150

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '24.7 "  N , 11 ° 9' 2.7"  E