Bierbaum's house

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Bierbaumsche Haus before 1897

The Bierbaumsche house in the historic Braunschweig precincts Hagen , Fallersleber Straße 8, where it was built 1,523th The imposing patrician house was one of the few late Gothic stone buildings in Braunschweig. During the Second World War it was badly damaged by Allied bombing raids. The ruins were eventually demolished. The building no longer exists today.

History of construction and use

At the intersection of Fallersleber Straße 8 and the later Wilhelmstraße there was a medieval building with a stone bower from the late 13th century. Hans Eckermann is documented as the owner of the house in 1374. He was involved in the “ Great Shift ” against the patrician council in such a way that the mayor Tile vom Damme was held prisoner in his house .

In 1480 it was owned by Hinrik von Peine. The late Gothic new building with the preservation of the bower was built in 1523. The building served the late Middle Ages as a guest of the city and was home during the Town Hall meeting participants Smalcald Federal Assembly in 1538 the Danish King Christian III. The von Peine family owned the house until the end of the 16th century.

From 1597 to 1619 Jürgen and Georg von der Schulenburg (1535-1619) and his wife Lucia von Veltheim († 1620) lived in the house, whose epitaph has been preserved in the Katharinenkirche .

In 1657 the author von Rethen, whose ancestors lived in the Weichbild Hagen as early as the 14th century, owned the house. In 1686 Jürgen Roerhand, the grandfather of Heinrich Bierbaum's wife, bought it.

The Bierbaum merchant family, who gave it its name, owned the building from 1752 to 1925. Bierbaumsche Haus, which was taken over by Braunschweiger Stadtwerke in 1925, was destroyed during the Second World War in a bombing raid on the night of October 15, 1944, with the exception of the massive outer walls. The rubble was removed after the end of the war.

Building description

The three-story stone building had a two-story steep stepped gable. The wooden Utlucht facing Fallersleber Strasse was richly decorated. The entrance and the windows were decorated with curtains . On Wilhelmstrasse there was a three-storey warehouse consisting of 14 compartments , which was built in the last quarter of the 16th century. A round arched gate on the left side of the building leading to the large Dael had seating niches with tracery canopies above . The coats of arms of the von der Schulenburg, von Rethen, Roerhand and Bierbaum families were attached to the bay window of the house.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Heinrich Meier : News about town houses of earlier centuries. In: Dr. Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin . Nro. January 1, 1897. In: Dr. Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Third volume. Born in 1897. Braunschweig. 1897. page 13.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 6.4 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 34.3 ″  E