Baroque house at Neißstrasse 30
| Baroque house at Neißstrasse 30 | |
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| place | Goerlitz |
| builder | Samuel Suckert |
| Construction year | 1727-1729 |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 9 '22.8 " N , 14 ° 59' 30.2" E |
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| Seat of the cultural history museum | |
The Barockhaus Neißstraße 30 is an important trading and residential building from the Baroque era in Görlitz, which has been used as part of the city's cultural history museum since 1951 . It is located in the middle of the old town on Neißstraße 30.
history
In the Middle Ages and early modern times, the southeast corner of the Untermarkt was a privileged residential area. Before the city fire of 1726, there were two important beer yards with their back houses.
The new building was built after the city fire between 1727 and 1729 by the council builder Samuel Suckert according to plans by the Saxon master builder Johann Friedrich Karcher for the rich linen and damask dealer Christian Ameiß from Zittau based on the example of a Leipzig “ through house ”. The two sites at Weberstrasse 1 and Handwerk 2 were included in the planning of this four-wing complex with partially open courtyards. The facility has two courtyards with an entrance on Neißstraße and an exit to the craft for the passage for goods loads.
Karl Gottlob von Anton , co-founder of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in 1779 , acquired the building after the former rooms became too small for the society. In 1804 the house became the seat of the society (until 1945), and its library and collections have been kept here ever since. The Masonic lodge "To the Crowned Snake", in which Karl Gottlob von Anton was master of the chair from 1804 to 1816 , also used rooms on the second floor of the front building. He donated the house to society in 1807. The lodge only moved into its own house at Kahle 21 in 1864 (today "Haus Wartburg" at Johannes-Wüsten-Straße 21).
In 1932 the Graphisches Kabinett with the collected collections of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum , the Milich'schen Library (of the Schweidnitz lawyer Johann Gottlieb Milich (1678-1726) with approx. 7,000 volumes, 200 manuscripts and 500 coins) and the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences opened.
In 1945 the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences was liquidated by the Soviet military administration. All club activities were put to an end. In 1950 the building with the historical library and the history of science collections became the property of the city of Görlitz. The baroque house reopened in 1951 as the second museum building of the Görlitzer Städtische Kunstsammlungen, today's Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz.
The Johannes Wüsten Hall was inaugurated on the ground floor in 2002 as an event and lecture room. From 2010 to July 29, 2011, extensive renovation work was carried out in the baroque house. By October of the same year, renovations of the two adjacent buildings Crafts 1 and 2 were carried out in the second construction phase. The former living quarters of the landlord and the baroque collection cabinets have been open to visitors since September 7, 2012. In 2013 the new depot building was opened in Crafts 1 and 2 and at the same time a passage was created between Neißstrasse and Weberstrasse.
Details
The portal of the house has a mighty gable with two gable figures and a richly decorated cartouche . The inscription in the cartridge reads:
"IU MUSEUM SLLS"
"In uno Museum Societatis Litterarum Lusatiae Superioris"
"May the whole building be a place for scholarly studies of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences."
It was installed in 1807 when the owner at that time, Karl Gottlob von Anton, transferred the house to the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, which he co-founded in 1779.
Exhibitions
Permanent exhibitions
On the first floor of the front building, the former representative living rooms of the landlord can be viewed with interior designs, originally preserved, colored stucco ceilings and selected exhibits from the Baroque period of the 18th century in Görlitz and Upper Lusatia. In the collection cabinets, important paintings and sculptures from the 17th and 18th centuries, gold and silversmiths, cut glasses, porcelain and faience vessels, sumptuous textiles and works of art on paper are presented. In the Milich'schen Rarities and Wunderkammer are wonderful things of nature, antiquities and scientific equipment on display. The Upper Lusatian Science Library with its famous historical rooms and outstanding book holdings is also located on this floor .
On the second floor the collections and the work of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences are shown. This includes original pieces of furniture, valuable paintings and unique scientific collections that were staged in special cabinets as they were 200 years ago. A historical physical cabinet by Adolf Traugott von Gersdorf shows a large disk electrifying machine from 1792, which he ordered from the then leading designer Cornelis van Wieckera in Amsterdam. Furthermore, a literature and music cabinet as well as antiquities and natural history cabinets can be seen, which represent the various research interests of the members of society. In a separate room in the cabinet of antiquities, there are collections from Greece, Rome and Egypt as well as local excavation finds.
Special exhibitions
In 2000 a Jacob Böhme exhibition was opened. There is currently no special exhibition in the Barockhaus Neißstraße 30.
literature
- Görlitz and its surroundings (= values of the German homeland . Volume 54). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0932-2 , p. 116.
- Baroque house at Neißstrasse 30; Courtyard restoration; Frank-Michael Heidrich; Preservation of monuments in Görlitz 05 (1996) - A series of publications
- A contribution to the history and self-image of the Görlitz Municipal Art Collections - Part I - Art Collections; Görlitzer Magazin - past and present of the city of Görlitz and its surroundings 06/1992
- Kai Wenzel (Red.), Art and Science around 1800. The collections of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz, Bielefeld 2011
- Kai Wenzel (Red.), Das Barockhaus Neißstraße 30. A tour, Dresden 2013
Web links
- Side of the museum to the building Barockhaus Neißstraße 30
- Page to the building Barockhaus Neißstraße 30 on www.unser-goerlitz.de ( Memento from November 1st, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
- Page to the building in the Stadtwiki Görlitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Wenzel : History of the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences in Görlitz ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )