Breite Strasse 49 (Quedlinburg)

House at Breite Strasse 49

Drawing from 1873, at the left edge of the picture the house at Breite Strasse 49

View into Breite Strasse, before 1912, in the center of the picture is the house at Breite Strasse 49

View from the south

The house at Breite Straße 49 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 residential building in the Quedlinburg monument register. To the north is the also listed building at Breite Straße 48 , to the south by the house at Breite Straße 50 .

Architecture and history

The three-storey half - timbered house in the late Gothic style was built around 1525. Other details give the time around 1530. The half-timbered facade, the upper floors of which protrude far, shows various decorative shapes and is largely preserved in the original. On the sleepers and filler wood, there are ship throats with angular corners, an early form of ship throats. On the threshold of the second floor there are ornaments in the form of a blossom with six leaves as carvings. In addition, there are bends on the beam heads, which are profiled in the shape of pear rods, and overlaid head struts. The half-timbered stands are each located above the ceiling beams, which are arranged at regular intervals. Cross bars serving for stiffening are arranged between the uprights. The compartments were filled with wickerwork, but are now walled up.

It is assumed that at the time of construction the windows of the building were arranged as small individual windows in continuous rows. In later times, both the arrangement and the size of the windows were changed. The bars on the second floor, which are located directly below the windows, were therefore moved downwards. Presumably it was only in this context that the compartments between today's windows were bricked up. On the courtyard side, the original design and the old clay infills are still partially preserved. The current window shape may have been used in the 19th century. There are knags at the house . The cleats originally located below the second floor were removed as part of the expansion of the windows on the first floor; only the outermost cleats were retained there.

A mezzanine floor was added to the ground floor , its height was only two meters. In addition, there was an almost square cellar facing the courtyard, which was spanned by a groin vault and was accessible via a staircase with six steps. The roof structure of the house dates back to the construction time and comprises nine containers . The floor of the attic consists of a plaster screed. In addition, an infill with straw loam has been preserved in the northern gable wall. Mid-20th century was the roofing of a nuns coverage in Kalkleiste .

As late as 1912, the rooms on the street side were run as heated rooms, the rooms on the courtyard side as unheated chambers. The entrance to the building was already on the left. From here went the stairs to the upper floors.

After a smaller renovation had already been carried out on the ground floor in 1906, a shop in the style of historicism was added in 1912 . The rungs of the skylights of the shop windows are based on the half-timbered stands. The building front was set back by about 80 cm on the ground floor. The Quedlinburg city council had demanded that the building line be set back to the lines of the neighboring houses as a condition for a permit to convert the ground floor. The city of Quedlinburg acquired the 7.5 m² street area for 1,000 marks. At the same time, headbands were inserted below the first floor, the design of which was based on the preserved cleats. There is a coat of arms or an ornament on each head strut. The actual entrance to the house was retained, but the width of the hallway was reduced to 1.20 meters. In addition, the mezzanine and the old vaulted cellar were removed so that a spacious shop was created.

Today (as of 2013) there is a shop for toys and souvenirs on the ground floor. The floor plan inside the house has remained largely unchanged since 1912.

literature

• Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 750.
• 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 38 ff.
• 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 101 f.

Web links

• Information on the half-timbered educational trail to the house at Breite Straße 49

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 38
2. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in 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 102
3. ↑ 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 40

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 22.7 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 33.2"  E