Breite Strasse 53 (Quedlinburg)

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House at Breite Strasse 53
Breite Strasse 53 around 1900

The house at Breite Straße 53 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located at the confluence of the Breite Strasse on the town's market square, immediately east of the Quedlinburg town hall and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . On the north side of the house is the somewhat older Schuhmachergildehaus , which is also listed, and the Grünhagen house is adjacent to the south . A shop for toys, gifts and souvenirs is located on the ground floor of the house registered in the Quedlinburg monument register.

architecture

The three-story half-timbered house protruding far to the street was built in 1560 in the style of the early Renaissance . The facade dates from the time the house was built and is richly decorated with carvings and paintings. It therefore has a particularly picturesque effect. The decorative elements include fan rosettes , braided ribbon , dew stick , ship throats and notch-cut motifs such as suns, stars and flowers. The fan rosettes are partly surrounded by round bars and rows of pearls. The threshold of the first floor is decorated with a wave band. The ends of the ceiling beams are decorated with profiled cylinder heads. On the second floor there are so-called false beam heads in the shape of a cylinder. The small, outward-opening, double-winged windows, which have remained unchanged in terms of their dimensions, are remarkable and formative for the shape of the building. In many other buildings in Quedlinburg from this period, the windows were changed in the 18th or 19th century. Parapet bars run beneath the windows .

The facade painting with acanthus motifs is considered to be of art-historical importance and is unusual for the Quedlinburg half-timbered buildings. It was created during a baroque redesign of the house in the second half of the 17th century.

Particularly striking is a large gable slightly to the left of the center of the house with a loading hatch designed in the form of a round arch .

history

House in 1959

For a long time the house was owned by well-known and respected Quedlinburg pharmacist families . In 1590 it belonged to the pharmacist Martin Matz , in 1610 Caspar Schütz and in 1620 Matthies Wagner . The mayor of Quedlinburg, Matthias Wagener, lived in the house from 1636. After Wagener's death, his widow used the property until 1660. The building was then used as a merchant's house by a merchant who housed both his trading business and his apartment here. A hat handler followed him. In 1759 Johann Gottlieb Wurmstich , who ran a needlework shop there, became the owner. He is an ancestor of the current Bendert family , who have owned the house for six generations. (As of 2008)

While the half-timbering of the upper floors has largely remained unchanged since the time of construction, the ground floor was significantly changed in the 19th century. The protruding head struts that originally existed here disappeared. On the first floor there was a large two-winged gate on the left, through which one could drive into the courtyard. Next to it was the door to the shop. In 1895 this area was redesigned again. Two large shop windows and a double-leaf entrance door were created. In 1910 the gate passage was closed and converted into a chamber. The front door to the street was also locked from the inside. The shop front facing the north gable side now also received a shop window.

For the Volkskammer election in 1950, the house at Breite Straße 53 with the slogan Preserve the German House from War Fire. Elect the candidates for peace depicted on an election poster . In 1961 the shop area was changed again.

1966

In 1993 the facade was renovated. Remnants of the baroque paintings with light gray thistle flowers and acanthus leaves were found in the compartments . This color scheme was exposed and restored.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b 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 , p. 102.
  2. ^ Manfred Mittelstaedt, Quedlinburg , Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-560-8 , page 106

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 22 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 32"  E