Battig house

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Battig House on the Alter Markt (right)

The Battig-Haus is a historic town house in the old town of Bielefeld in the Mitte district . It was built in 1680 and is now part of the Lampe-Bank building complex .

location

The Battig-Haus is located on the south side of the Old Market in the heart of Bielefeld's old town. It bears the house number Alter Markt 3 . The building is now part of the Lampe Bank complex, which extends from the market to the Gehrenberg and the Welle. To the right of the Battighaus is the “Apotheke am Alten Markt”, which was built in simple forms after the Second World War and still shows clear echoes of the architecture of the homeland security .

History and building history

The name "Battig-Haus" goes back to a previous owner. As you can see on old photos, it was used as a drugstore at the beginning of the 20th century . Large shop windows had been broken into on both sides of the entrance to use the shop . On the left side, a door led into the so-called “Butterkellerjacket”, a delicatessen store from which a corridor is said to have led to the Sparrenburg . However, this assumption turned out to be wrong.

During the Second World War, the building burned down to the surrounding walls. Only the gable remained, which was then incorporated into a new bank building designed by Paul Griesser . During the reconstruction, some changes were made to the facade . On the ground floor, a total of four lattice windows were used instead of the two shop windows , which - together with the portal - were framed by a sandstone frame. The cornice band at the level of the first gable, which also ran between the windows, was reduced to such an extent that the earlier division of the lower gable into two sections is no longer clear today.

From 1973 to 1975 the gable fronts of the Lampe Bank were built at the suggestion of Dr. Oetker renewed. The architect Caesar F. Pinnau (Hamburg) took over the management. The large openings on the ground floor were replaced by smaller windows and the frame removed again. A wide cornice was added above the ground floor. However, there were reservations about the bronze door created by the sculptor Hans Wimmer on the part of the monument preservation authorities, because it is “not divided axially symmetrically”, “contradicts the compositional scheme of the facade and would also be torn apart and incomprehensible when it opened into two wings.” Despite these objections, the Door finally installed. In the course of the renovation work, the quite plainly kept neighboring building on the left was shown the Renaissance gable of the house at Obernstrasse 29, which had been stored in the municipal building yard for almost two decades.

Building description

The Battig House is a two-story building with a gable roof . The unplastered facade of five axes was built from carefully hewn sandstone blocks. The ground floor and first floor are separated from each other by a strong cornice that is covered with wall anchors . The main entrance of the house, which is equipped with a two-winged bronze portal, is located in the central axis of the ground floor. The upper end of the house is a richly decorated volute gable , the individual floors of which are also separated from each other by cornices.

Although it was not built until 1680, the facade of the Battig House is still strongly based on the design language of the Weser Renaissance . This applies above all to the structure of the building through cornices. However, the “type of relay panels” is already baroque . The obelisks so typical of gables of the late Weser Renaissance are missing on the upper echelons. They are replaced by vases, which today lack the lid-like closures.

Inscriptions

The facade is provided with numerous gilded inscriptions . Below the windows of the first floor you can read the following:

  • Left:
  • Quod pia fata volunt, hominum non invida [pac] ta
  • maddened; constanter sors sua quemque manet.
  • VICInVs bonVs, ast oMnIs Longe InVIDVs esto.

(Translation: What pious fate wills, ill-fated deeds of people do not undo; inevitably, everyone awaits his lot. The neighbor is good, but every ill-advised [neighbor] stay away.)

  • Center:
  • PUT IT FULL GOD SELF INTO HAVE
  • LIGHT, FRIEND, HEAL, GLOVE AND RICH BLESSING.
  • a IhoVa DoMVI hVIC Ipsa VeniIto saLVs

(Translation: From God (Jehovah) come salvation itself to this house).

  • Right:
  • Utque alios alii de religione docerent,
  • contiguas pietas iussit habere preces.
  • HAVD MorIor, VIVVs narro pLaCIta Ipsa IehoVae

(Translation: and so that some converted through religion, piety has commanded to keep prayers. I do not die, but proclaim God's own decisions.)

Two more inscriptions can be found in the lower gable field below the windows:

  • Left:
  • In CoeLIs nobIs habItaCVLa ConDIta fIxa
  • sVnt, Ipsa aeternI fabrICa CeLsa DeI.

(Translation: Fixed dwellings are established for us in heaven, the tall building of Eternal God itself.)

  • Right:
  • IhoVa NIsI faCIat, frVstra qVIs strVXerIt aeDes;
  • hVIVs DIreXIt DeXtra strVentIs opVs.

(Translation: If God (Jehovah) does not do it, one builds the house in vain. His right hand has directed the work of the builder.)

meaning

Only the Battig-Haus and the Crüwell-Haus, which marks the beginning of Obernstrasse, have a historical facade on the Alter Markt . All other buildings were destroyed in the Second World War or demolished around 1900. The neighboring house on the left is not an old building, but was only given a Renaissance gable in 1976 , which originally comes from the house at Obernstraße 29. The architect Paul Griesser managed to preserve the historical character of the market thanks to the simple neighboring buildings, which are based on the dimensions of the Battig House. Although it was not built until the Baroque era , the Battig House still shows clear echoes of the Weser Renaissance styles, so that it is regarded as the last representative of this era.

References and comments

  1. ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia II, Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2011, p. 112.
    The date can be seen from the inscriptions on the facade, some of which can be read as chronograms .
  2. ↑ Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of the Bielefeld-Stadt district. Münster 1906, p. 27.
  3. ^ Reinhard Vogelsang: Bielefeld in old postcards. Würzburg 1978, p. 31.
  4. ^ Günter Gerke: Bielefeld as it was. 3rd edition, Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, p. 10.
  5. ^ Karl E. Mummenhoff: The architectural monuments in Westphalia. War damage and reconstruction. Münster 1968, p. 84.
  6. ^ Dietrich Ellger: Individual reports on the preservation of monuments for the years 1974-1976. In: Westfalen (Jahrbuch), Volume 56, 1978, p. 353, Figure 307.
  7. ↑ Dietrich Ellger: Individual reports on monument preservation , p. 353.
  8. ^ Wilfried Hansmann: Belser art hikes in Westphalia. Stuttgart 1966, p. 463.
  9. ^ Franz Flaskamp: Inscriptions, coats of arms, house brands and stonemason marks of the Graeflich-Ravensberg state capital Bielefeld. Wiedenbrück 1940, pp. 34-35.
  10. ↑ Chronogram “1680” according to Flaskamp, ​​as above
  11. ↑ Chronogram “1680” according to Flaskamp, ​​as above
  12. ↑ Chronogram “1680” according to Flaskamp, ​​as above
  13. ↑ The bottom line is again a chronogram: When read as Roman numerals, the capital letters add up to the year 1680, the date the house was built.
  14. ↑ Chronogram “1680” according to Flaskamp, ​​as above
  15. ↑ Chronogram “1680” according to Flaskamp, ​​as above
  16. ↑ Kreft and Soenke describe it "despite the baroque gable outline because of the facade structure by cornices as the end of the Weser Renaissance." See: Herbert Kreft, Jürgen Soenke: Die Weserrenaissance. 6th edition, Hameln 1986.
  17. ↑ Wilfried Hansmann speaks of the "latest gable of the Weser Renaissance". Cf. Hansmann: Kunstwanderungen in Westfalen , p. 463.

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '12.8 "  N , 8 ° 31' 54.4"  E