Town houses behind the Nikolaikirche
The town houses behind the Nikolaikirche are a reconstruction of baroque houses in the Nikolaiviertel in the historic center of Berlin .
location
The row of houses is located in the street Nikolaikirchplatz southeast of the Nikolaikirche in the district of the same name in the district of Mitte . It leads from the narrow corner connection with Poststrasse to the corner of Eiergasse . The Nikolaiviertel was built for the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987.
use
In the houses there are some apartments, shops, the non-profit " Memorial Library in Honor of the Victims of Communism " and a small theater.
history
Even when the city was founded around 1230, Nikolaikirchplatz, not far from the Molkenmarkt, was one of the central squares in Berlin. Stalls (meat scraping) are guaranteed by excavations on the square.
The Nikolaikirchplatz was built on early on. Until the great city fire in 1380, the gable type of house made of wood prevailed , which was filled with clay and wicker . There were fire pits on the ground floor and people lived on the upper floors.
After the ravages of fire was in Old Berlin of brick preferred as a building material, some required by the authorities. This is how - starting at the corners - brick buildings were built that no longer faced the street with the gable, but with the eaves side .
The town houses on Nikolaikirchplatz were lost in the Second World War , the remains were cleared away in the course of clearing the rubble. It was not until 1984–1986 that the houses were remembered when the Nikolaiviertel was designed on behalf of the architect Günter Stahn . Due to the good documentation of the buildings, especially the building recordings by Albert Gut (1917), the houses could be rebuilt with traditional materials . The facades were - technically for DDR - elaborately crafted guild signs provided.
Typical of Berlin are the wide dormers , which were erected over the full width of the house when the houses were added. When reconstructing the houses, Stahn mainly chose the late Baroque version , by no means the last external figure before the destruction.
The decidedly simple town houses with their sober, poorly decorated facades are typical of Berlin architecture.
In the House Nikolaikirchplatz 7 had Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , whose Minna von Barnhelm in the historical center of Berlin plays.
literature
- Günter Stahn: Berlin. The Nikolaiviertel. Berlin (Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag) 2003.
- Uwe Kieling, Johannes Althoff: The Nikolaiviertel . Berlin (Berlin Edition) 2001.
- Benedikt Goebel: The conversion of old Berlin into a modern city center. Berlin (Braun Publishing House) 2003.
- Albert Gut: The Berlin house in the 17th and 18th centuries. Berlin 1917.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 59.5 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 28.2" E