Breite Strasse 41 (Quedlinburg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
House at Breite Strasse 41
Photo from around 1900
State in 1909
Drawing of the reconstruction carried out in 1909

The house at Breite Straße 41 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located northeast of the city's market square and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . It is registered as a merchant's house in the Quedlinburg monument register. To the north is the also listed building at Breite Strasse 40 , to the south by the house at Breite Strasse 42 .

Architecture and history

The front building of the property was built in 1551 in half-timbered construction . A building inscription refers to this year. A dendrochronological investigation showed that the wood used had been felled in the years 1549/50. The master carpenter who carried out the construction is not recorded. The builder was the council chamberlain Joachim Quenstedt. The facade is lavishly decorated. So there are dew-rod and neck as well as fan rosettes on the wooden base. In addition, there are headbands with overlapping in the corner compartments to stiffen the framework construction. The ninth container on the upper floor of the house also serves the neighboring building at Breite Straße 42 to the south. The upper floor is designed in the Renaissance style. The beam heads are designed as cylinder beam heads . On the threshold there are carved ornaments below the oak stand. Later on, the window openings were enlarged and the bars below the windows were reduced accordingly. The compartments were with cob filled with a clay plaster provided. Some compartments designed in this way are still preserved in the gable wall from the construction period.

In the period around 1680 was a mezzanine in the style of Baroque inserted into the high basement, which is cantilevered about the ground floor. The pyramid beam heads , the profiled parapet plank with droplet frieze and the half-timbered figure of the Half Man were also created there . Here, too, the threshold was decorated with ship throats. The windows are square and may have originally existed in all compartments.

The property initially formed a unit with the house adjoining it to the south. The Quenstedt family remained the owners of the complex used as an arable and brewery until the end of the 17th century. It was then used as an inn. Heinrich Christian Bertram divided the land in the 18th century.

Around 1830 the ground floor was converted in the classicism style . At the end of the 19th century there was a shop on the ground floor used by the Robert Lorenz confectionery . The shop door was in the center of the house, the front door on the far right. The two windows on the left were framed by a centrally positioned fighter and a frame surrounding the windows. The shop window as well as the shop door were surrounded by pilasters with Corinthian capitals arranged on the sides in the neo-Gothic style . Both the window and the shop door had bars that were designed as pointed arches at the top. The lower section of the front door also had neo-Gothic elements. Above the shop there was a crown in the style of classicism, under which the name of the shopkeeper was.

In 1909 another renovation took place in which the shop facade was changed and a large shop window was added. The neo-Gothic shop door, the shop window and the frame have been removed. The front door was initially retained. At the beginning of the 21st century, however, the shop facade had already been removed and replaced by two windows. The windows had shutters from the 19th century. In a renovation carried out by the architects qbatur after 2007 , a shop was added. The neo-gothic front door was removed. The layout of the ground floor facade now corresponds again to that after the renovation in 1909.

Inside the building, the construction from the time the house was built has been preserved. The house tree has a longitudinal beam on each floor , on which the ceiling joists rest. There are also head struts inside for stiffening, which run from the outer walls to the ceiling beams in each container. The three-story roof structure of the house dates back to the time of construction and is ten meters high. Presumably this relatively high roof space was used as a storage facility.

A wing of the building facing the courtyard was built around 1670, also in half-timbered construction, with St. Andrew's crosses and diamonds on the facade .

literature

  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 99
  • M. Schmidt in Fachwerk Lehrpfad, A tour through Quedlinburg from the Middle Ages to the 19th century , Deutsches Fachwerkzentrum Quedlinburg eV, Quedlinburg 2011, ISBN 3-937648-13-5 , page 85 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 145

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '26.1 "  N , 11 ° 8' 37.2"  E