Barthel's court

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View from the courtyard to the eastern part of the building on the market square with the Renaissance bay window (1523) of the house "The Golden Snake". The redesign with relocation of the bay window to the courtyard side took place in 1870/71.
10 Pfennig - special stamp of the GDR Post 1963 , "Barthels Hof" (series: Leipziger Messe )

Barthels Hof is a historic building complex in downtown Leipzig . It stretches from the market square to Kleine Fleischergasse and is one of the city's most important sights today. Barthels Hof was built as a typical exhibition center at that time between 1747 and 1750 by George Werner for the Leipzig merchant Gottlieb Barthel . The baroque facade facing Fleischergasse is very narrow and inconspicuous, so that one would hardly suspect such a building behind it. Four-story houses are arranged around the irregularly shaped courtyard, all of which have a very high roof. There are no horizontal lines or cornices on this building, which makes the courtyard seem very upward. In the through-house there were department stores and stables on the ground floor and pompous ballrooms on the upper floor. The other houses housed living quarters. The fact that the top floors were used to store goods is still shown today by the crane beams that were put up to pull the goods up.

The neo-baroque sandstone facade on the market side was created in 1870/71. The renaissance facade of the house "To the golden snake" with a two-story bay window, volute gable and attached turret was moved from the market to the courtyard side. The bay window dates from 1523 and is the oldest surviving fragment of a town house facade in Leipzig. A gilded snake wound around a cross on the console stone of the bay window gave its name to the house "Zur golden Schlange", which was built for the merchant Hieronymus Walther . The coat of arms of the Walther family can be seen in the parapet above the console stone. Above the lower window of the bay is another parapet area with an open book and a Latin inscription that refers to the owner and the original year of construction 1523.

In August 1928, Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG) moved into two floors of Barthels Hof, which earned it the name MIRAG-Haus at that time. From 1946 to 1984, Barthels Hof was the seat of the Leipzig City Library and temporarily also of the Leipzig Trade Fair Office .

Barthels Hof is the last preserved baroque courtyard in Leipzig. The building was part of the bankruptcy estate of the real estate entrepreneur Jürgen Schneider , who left a construction site here. The work could be continued by other investors. During the renovation, the building was almost completely gutted, only the vaults of the restaurant and some staircases remained in their original form. Today there are numerous shops and the traditional restaurant "Barthels Hof" in the Barthels Hof, which has been offering typical Saxon cuisine for over a century.

  • The courtyard area to the west

  • Barthels Hof seen from the market before the redesign.

  • The Barthels Hof seen from the market after renovation (around 1890).

  • View of the courtyard around 1890.

Web links

Commons : Barthels Hof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Hocquél : The Leipzig Passages and Courtyards. Architecture of European standing. Sax Verlag, Markkleeberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86729-087-6 , p. 75.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 28 "  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 27"  E