Burghof (Flensburg)

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The south of both towers
The entrance gate to the courtyard next to the Lille Teater , where probably in the Middle Ages, the tower castle in Norderkuhgang stand

The Burghof in Flensburg is an inner courtyard complex designed by Paul Ziegler with associated residential buildings in the style of Heimatschutz architecture from 1909/1910, which has a clear castle character and thus develops a historicizing effect.

location

The courtyard is accessible through two gates, in the north from Toosbüystraße 11 and in the south from Marienstraße 22. The area is centrally located in Flensburg's old town, a few minutes' walk from the Große Straße pedestrian zone . The next bus stop is not far away on Toosbüystraße.

Turmburg in the Norderkuhgang

The access gate in Toosbüystraße is a little further away from the southern slopes of the Marienberg , on which the Duburg once stood. The southern entrance gate is right next to the Lille Teater (Marienstraße 20), which is elevated on a mound and on the site of which, in the Middle Ages, is believed to have been a tower castle . Until the beginning of the 19th century, the street was still called Norderkuhgang, because cattle were herded from the city across the street through a city ​​gate at address 23 and onto the community pasture. The aforementioned tower castle in Norderkuhgang was probably also part of the Flensburg city fortifications . It is believed that a higher personality, such as the mayor appointed by the king , had his seat in the small castle . The appointment of a city bailiff by the king or duke has probably existed since the beginning of the 11th century and is also mentioned in Flensburg's city charter from 1284. It was not until 1413 that the city received the right to elect the city bailiff himself. In the reports on the fighting around the Duburg in 1431, the building is probably also mentioned as the residence of a knight. How or when the castle was destroyed or fell apart is not known. When the castle courtyard complex was built, some of the parts of the castle grounds that are less visible today were apparently also built over.

Neighboring buildings

The neighboring small old houses with the numbers Marienstraße 1 to 19, with the exception of addresses 2, 4 and 16, were registered as cultural monuments. Some of the neighboring Wilhelminian style and Art Nouveau buildings in Toosbüystraße are also registered as cultural monuments. The castle courtyard itself, with its houses and furnishings, is considered an important cultural monument, but has not yet been entered in the monument book. Toosbüystraße is now an important main thoroughfare, while Marienstraße is a traffic - calmed one-way street.

accessibility

The courtyard itself can be accessed by cars from Toosbüystraße, but it does not serve as a parking lot and cars are more of a rarity there.

  • The gatehouse on Toosbüystraße

  • The gatehouse on Marienstraße

  • The small courtyard-like courtyard

  • View from the castle courtyard to the height where the castle is said to have stood

  • The large inner courtyard, facing south

  • The large inner courtyard, facing north

Building history and architecture

Burghof facade, Burghof 6 (west side), Flensburg, picture 03.JPG
Mariendalsvej c 1905 by Hauerslev.jpg


The facade of Burghof No. 6
And the similar facade of the buildings Mariendalsvej No. 62–64 in Copenhagen by the Danish architect Ulrik Plesner from 1905
Rough illustration sketch of the castle courtyard

In the first years of the 20th century there was still a vacant lot in the lower half of the ascending Toosbüystraße that was difficult to build on. A first plan to develop the area had been rejected by the building police , which was headed by Paul Ziegler. In order to still make development possible, the urban planning inspector Paul Ziegler himself designed a solution in the form of the castle courtyard. Master bricklayer August Fürböter , who owned the property, then submitted another building application , this time based on the new design by Paul Ziegler. The building application was approved and the courtyard was built on the planned site between 1909 and 1910.

In the first years of the 20th century, some architects turned to the architectural style of homeland security architecture , with which they wanted to further develop and overcome the historicizing architecture of the Wilhelminian era . Paul Ziegler was also one of the architects of homeland security. The Burghof in Toosbüystraße, which consists entirely of buildings from the Wilhelminian era and the Art Nouveau that followed it, also represents a programmatic counter-draft. which have numerous such elements, was created and thus the contrast to Toosbüystraße was apparently dampened. It is the only building element of its kind that visitors can discover in the entire courtyard. As a representative of homeland security architecture, it was also important for Ziegler to tie in with the local building tradition.

The basic structure of the castle courtyard consists of seven multi-family houses, with the house numbers Burghof 1 to 6, Toosbüystraße 11 and Marienstraße 22, which consist entirely of red bricks , which, however, were not only used as functional building elements for the construction of simple walls, but much more were used in a variety of decorative ways, so that the viewer should not miss the mentioned typical decorations of the Wilhelminian style buildings. The arrangement of the multi-family houses results in a large inner courtyard and a small inner courtyard-like courtyard, as can also be found in some castles. In contrast to the larger courtyard with its uncovered bricks, this front part was plastered and painted light. The plastered facades skilfully soften the contrast to the houses on Marienstraße. House number 4 is in the small courtyard and from there you can see the higher property, where the tower castle was probably located.

An intermediate gate leads to the larger inner courtyard, where house numbers 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 are located. As in the rest of the castle courtyard, everything is paved with cobblestones . Within the large courtyard stands courtyard fountain with the Fischer-boys The Fischer-boy is next to the stone vase in the tunnel from the gateway to Toosbüystraße the only sculpture that can be found in the courtyard. The fountain sculpture consists of a boy holding a fish that is almost as big as himself. The fisher boy stands on a plinth in the fountain. In the open mouth of the high-looking fish there is a nozzle from which a fountain of water sprays out on beautiful sunny days. But the fountain is not put into operation all the time, so that this sight is rarely seen. A motif-like fountain can be found in Munich, for example, with the Fischerbuberl fountain . In this fountain, which was set up in 1910, i.e. in the same period in which the courtyard fountain with the fisherman's boy was built, a fisherman's boy holds two small fish in his hands and a third with his feet. But there are other similar wells besides this one. Another remarkable thing about Flensburg is that in Flensburg, as in some other places, there were apparently superstitious legends that claimed that women could fish their dearly desired children from the springs, waters and wells in the area, secretly would do, but then would catch a cold, which is why they would have to stay in bed. The Flensburg women therefore did not need the rattle stork . The fisher boy was vandalized and badly destroyed on February 21, 2016. In 2019, the renovated sculpture was back in its place for several months until it was destroyed along with the base by an unknown vandal.

To the left and right of the fountain there are flower beds in which small bushes, shrubs and flowers are planted. But not only there, at different corners of the courtyard there are further beds and flower boxes with small trees and flowers. In addition to this planting, ivy can be seen here and there on the castle courtyard walls . On the north side, where the ivy forms a particularly thick carpet, hangs an impressive, large stone tablet with an artistically designed frame, with words that remind us that the courtyard was built between 1909 and 1910 according to a design by Paul Ziegler is. Every now and then the table has to be freed from ivy, otherwise it would have been completely overgrown long ago. Under the table there is a neat old bench that invites you to linger. Two towers can be discovered in the large inner courtyard. A south tower at house number 5 and a north tower that crowns the front building Toosbüystraße 11 and particularly emphasizes the castle character. Another tower in the small courtyard, which was still to be found in designs by Paul Ziegler, was apparently not realized.

A great variety of styles as well as the variety of gables, bay windows, roofs and all other parts of the building enhances the character of the castle, because most of the castles are also mostly not made from one piece, and it is precisely these slight deliberate breaks in the architecture of the courtyard that make it so magnificent and let the viewer recognize a castle. The loggias to the left and right of the northern tower with its conical roof also fit into this picture. Some are angular and some are round and baroque . The brick ornamentation also shows that Paul Ziegler had taken care of the smallest architectural details. The plot of land that was still vacant at the time was filled up well and not too much by the buildings in the courtyard. It is noticeable that the high building height, the four-story development of the courtyard, compared to the eastern plot of land, when viewed from Marienstraße, is too high and not really completed towards the neighboring eastern plot (Marienstraße 20), probably too angular and too little looks rounded. Beyond that, the courtyard consists of over 60 apartments and also offers some space for two small shops and two restaurants, namely on the ground floor , in the two gatehouses and in the cross building with the intermediate gate.

  • Board with the wording: "Draft Stadtbauinspector Paul Ziegler, built 1909–1910"

  • The undestroyed Burghof fountain in winter 2012.

  • The fisher boy in 2013 as he has not yet been vandalized.

  • The vase sculpture in the north entrance to the gate

  • Baroque gable with fish- bubble- shaped ornaments, similar to Art Nouveau , on the Marienstrasse building. 22nd

  • Part of the brick ornamentation

The castle courtyard nowadays

The northern side with the loggias and the north tower
Some ivy grows high on the masonry
An old park bench under the plaque

In 1987/88 the now listed castle courtyard was completely renovated. The apartments have been modernized. Windows that opened outwards were replaced by ones that opened inwards. The basic layout of the apartments has hardly changed. After the work was completed, the individual apartments were sold as condominiums . A few years later, ground covering was dry rot noticed and costly subsequent restructuring was necessary. Many of the owners could not bear these costs. In the first decade of the 2000s, many Danes bought apartments in the courtyard, some of which also live here. Over 60 percent of the apartment owners live in the respective apartments themselves.

In 2010 the owners and residents celebrated the 100th anniversary. On Saturday, October 16, there was an event in which the guests were informed about the history and news of the castle courtyard. There was also a celebration with music. The fountain figure was restored to mark the centenary of the castle courtyard. The Flensburg Beautification Association also took part in the renovation of the rest of the well in September 2011 .

SBV real estate management took over the management of the complex for the apartment owners for over 17 years . In October 2014 the Manasterny & Aarskog Immobilien GmbH took over the administration. The apartment owners and residents are also organized in the Burghof initiative. In addition to maintenance, parked cars and the volume in the large inner courtyard are always an issue among the residents, because the through connection from Toosbüystraße to Marienstraße is public and is popular with Flensburg residents and tourists. Various apartments are rented out as holiday homes . The Burghof Apartment , furnished in the style of the 1970s, exhibits works of art created between 2000 and 2013 by the Munich painter Annegret Hoch , winner of the Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Prize in 2004 and the Bavarian Art Prize in 2007.

In the front part of the Toosbüystraße 11 building, which can be seen from the street, where there is the possibility of a small restaurant, there was an inn with the name Pierrot until 2013 . With the closure of the Pierrot, the vacancy in terms of business space, which was previously noticeable in Toosbüystraße, has now also reached the Burghof. The restaurant Zum Alten Fritz in Burghof No. 4, from which the sign has been hanging for a long time, has apparently long since disappeared, but is said to have only been in operation for a short time. The reason for the royal naming is unclear. The name of the inn could have been chosen because there are legends about the old Fritz in Angling , although there is no evidence of a visit to the region. The retail space at Marienstraße 22 is apparently no longer rented. Nevertheless, despite the difficult business situation, there was probably a one-time flea market in the courtyard in 2012 to collect money for laying cobblestones instead of asphalt for the neighboring Marienstrasse.

The controversially discussed construction work in Toosbüystraße in 2014 did not affect or change the courtyard, as there is no line of sight from the courtyard to the affected slope of the Duburganhöhe.

Most of the city ​​tours through the inner city of Flensburg nowadays also lead through the castle courtyard.

literature

  • Broder Schwensen and Bernd Köster (eds.): Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905–1939 (=  Small series of the Society for Flensburg City History . Volume 29 ). Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-31-5 ( table of contents of the book [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Burghof
  2. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : brick courtyard with castle character , from: May 7, 2015; accessed on: June 16, 2017
  3. ↑ Or the Flensburg city center
  4. ↑ a b c Flensburg Mobil, Burghof , accessed on March 20, 2014
  5. ^ The street Am Burgfried
  6. ↑ originally called Marienburg
  7. ↑ a b c d Cf. writings of the Society for Flensburger Stadtgeschichte (ed.): Flensburg in history and present. Flensburg 1972, pages 22 and 23
  8. ↑ a b Entry on Flensburg Castle (St. Marien) in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ Flensburg street names. Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Marienstraße
  10. ↑ See Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district. The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, pages 97 and 98
  11. ↑ Where the address number 2 no longer exists. The new building at Marienstraße number 4 also bears the Beautiful House 1984 badge from the Flensburg Beautification Association. Number 16 is also a new building.
  12. ^ Jens Christian Krause: Art Nouveau karnapper i Flensborg. In: Flensborg Avis , end of September 2013
  13. ↑ a b See Broder Schwensen and Bernd Köster (eds.): Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905–1939. Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-31-5 . (= Small series of the Society for Flensburg City History , Volume 29.), page 114
  14. ↑ This is not possible from Marienstraße, as a traffic-obstructing stone (a stone bollard) has been placed in the gate entrance. And only cars and smaller trucks from Toosbüystraße can pass through the nearly three-meter-wide gate.
  15. ↑ Cf. Broder Schwensen (Ed.): Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905–1939. Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-31-5 . (= Small series of the Society for Flensburg City History , Volume 29.), Pages 96 and 97
  16. ↑ Biehl's wood store was previously on the site; See Flensburg originals , page 62
  17. ↑ a b c d e Broder Schwensen and Bernd Köster (eds.): Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905–1939. Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-31-5 . (= Small series of the Society for Flensburg City History , Volume 29.), page 113
  18. ↑ a b c d Julia Boecker: The man who invented AVS and Burghof. In: Flensburger Tageblatt , August 7, 2009; Retrieved on: March 18, 2014
  19. ^ Broder Schwensen and Bernd Köster (eds.): Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905–1939. Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-31-5 . (= Small series of the Society for Flensburg City History , Volume 29.), page 114 and the building drawing on page 116
  20. ↑ Well in Flensburg , accessed on March 20, 2014
  21. ↑ a b c d e f g Joachim Pohl: 100 Years Burghof: Celebrating and cleaning up. In: Flensburger Tageblatt , October 19, 2010; accessed on March 17, 2014
  22. ^ Fountain in the courtyard , accessed on: March 20, 2014
  23. ↑ See for example: Why does the stork bring babies? ; accessed on March 31, 2014
  24. ↑ See puerperium
  25. ↑ It is sometimes mentioned in older versions of the saga about the Great Keel , in a somewhat confused way and so in the context of this also rather incidentally. Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present. Flensburg 1972, pages 273 and 282 as well as: Karl Müllenhoff : Legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Kiel 1845, page 105 f and Johann Georg Theodor Grässer saga of the Prussian state 1–2. Volume 2 , Glogau 1868/71, page 1063. In Bernhard Kummer About the children origin from the Concise Dictionary of German superstition (accessed on 31 March 2014) which is also blue dam , the moat of Duburg in this context mentioned.
  26. ↑ Julia Boecker: Monuments: The traces of Paul Ziegler. In: Flensburger Tageblatt , September 12, 2009; Retrieved on: April 2, 2014
  27. ^ Broder Schwensen and Bernd Köster (eds.): Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905–1939. Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-31-5 . (= Small series of the Society for Flensburg City History , Volume 29.), architectural drawing on page 116
  28. ^ Broder Schwensen and Bernd Köster (eds.): Paul Ziegler - Magistratsbaurat in Flensburg 1905–1939. Flensburg 1998, ISBN 3-925856-31-5 . (= Small series of the Society for Flensburg City History , Volume 29.), page 114
  29. ↑ a b c d SBV-Bote November 2011 (autumn edition) ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), page 18; accessed on March 18, 2014
  30. ↑ Wolfgang Borm: Guided walk - Flensburg - city of fountains. In: Flensburger Tageblatt , August 4, 2010; accessed on March 20, 2014
  31. ↑ There the hall should be as strong as in many a medieval castle.
  32. ↑ Burghof Apartment (renting site)
  33. ↑ Burghof Apartment Flensburg Apartment in Flensburg (old town)
  34. ↑ Art. In: BURGHOF Apartment. Retrieved May 25, 2015 .
  35. ^ Art on vacation: New exhibition in the Burghof Apartment Munich artist Annegret Hoch is exhibiting in Flensburg. In: Hotel-Zentrale.de. June 4, 2013, accessed May 25, 2015 .
  36. ↑ The still existing website of Pierrot, café, restaurant, takeaway orders, party service and catering ( Memento from January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (last accessed on March 18, 2014), the small southern restaurant with Mediterranean and Oriental cuisine that, as you can find on the page, was open from 5 p.m.
  37. ↑ How to get to the Pierrot (last accessed on March 18, 2014)
  38. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : brick courtyard with castle character , from: May 7, 2015; accessed on: June 16, 2017
  39. ↑ A few websites in 2014 still listed the address of the inn, although it has apparently been closed for a long time. It is therefore no longer possible to clearly determine which audience the pub addressed.
  40. ↑ Cf. Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Legends and fairy tales from fishing. Husum 1987, pages 70, 96 and 97; for example the legend of Ollen Fritz and the poor soldier . Old Fritz learns that one of his soldiers, who was otherwise always poor, suddenly has a lot of money, although he only gets his wages and nothing else. That is why old Fritz dresses up as a simple soldier and seeks camaraderie and asks him how it comes about. The soldier takes him and they break into a merchant's. The soldier counts the income and divides it into three piles. But old Fritz reached for all the money and got hit by the soldier. He explains: “The first pile is the one for the goods. The second pile of money is his merit. The third pile is the money he took too much from people. We want that. ”Yes, Fritz thinks that might be right. The next day, Olle Fritz reveals himself to be king, but the soldier gets away with it.
  41. ↑ The reason for the name could also be based on a master baker named Fritz Borchadt . He allegedly ran a bakery there for many years and then sold the baked goods in a bakery that was accessible from Marienstrasse. After the bakery was closed for various reasons, baked goods were only sold for many years. These were delivered by the Meesenburg bakery. The Old Fritz said to have made merely be feast days such as Christmas, small marzipan specialties.
  42. ↑ MoinMoin : residents collect “paving money”, the historic cobblestone pavement is to be preserved for Marienstraße ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); Article was apparently from 2012; Cf. Joachim Pohl: Marienstraße: With citizenship to new cobblestones. In: Flensburger Tageblatt , August 28, 2012; Retrieved on: August 10, 2014
  43. ^ Gunnar Dommasch: Toosbüystrasse in Flensburg - Fight for a cherry tree and Auf der Palme , each in: Flensburger Tageblatt , from March 14, 2014; Retrieved March 19, 2014
  44. ↑ Holger Ohlsen: The pure transparency. In: Flensburger Tageblatt , March 15, 2014; Page 14 and on the same page the caricature by Kim Schmidt of an apparently drug-sick tree that is to be felled by a lumberjack with the apologetic words: "Trees should be planted here!" As shocked passers- by are just passing by.
  45. ^ Lip : The protest tree on Toosbüystraße, tree felling action alerts residents , in: MoinMoin , Flensburg edition, from March 19, 2014; accessed on March 21, 2014
  46. ↑ Cf. Joachim Pohl: Marienstraße: Blank mockery instead of cobblestones. In: Flensburger Tageblatt , April 19, 2012; accessed on: 10 August 2014 and for example: Flensburg Fjord offers a new city tour: Panoramic hike west ; Retrieved on: August 10, 2014

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 24.4 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 47.5"  E