Commandantenhus
The Swedish-Pomeranian Commandantenhus ( Commandantenhus ) in Stralsund is a listed building in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund on Alter Markt 14.
History, description
The commandant's house was built as the seat of the Swedish garrison commanders from 1748 to 1751. The well-preserved house replaced the smaller commandant's house in the same place. The Swedish commanders in Stralsund, in the person of Lieutenant General Trautvetter and his successor, Count von Schwerin , had complained that the commandant's house was too small. It had already been built in the Middle Ages and had only a small living room and a few back rooms. The commandant of Schwerin had moved out of the house because of the strong smell from the toilet and the horse stable and was living with the mayor at the time, Icke. It was Count von Schwerin who recommended the king in 1745 to oblige the city of Stralsund to rebuild.
In 1746 the city bought the neighboring property belonging to the Schneider Spatz. After another complaint from Schwerin in 1747, an order was issued to the city to finally push ahead with the building of the house, whereupon construction began in the summer of 1748. The two old gabled houses were demolished. The Stralsund merchant Johann Christoph Pagenkopf took over the new building. The master mason Johann Christoph Büttner and the carpenter Andreas Tippel were responsible for the construction of the house, which extends over the two properties. Construction took three years, and in 1850 the military treasury purchased the building together with a piece of land in the neighboring Semlower Strasse for 13,600 Reichstaler. It is a three-storey eaves house with a gabled middle section and finished with a hipped roof. Although it shows a simple baroque shape, echoes of classicism can already be discovered.
After the Second World War and the division of Germany into zones of occupation , it was called the House of Unity , from 1950 to 1954 the House of Officers and from 1954 to 1990 officially the House of the Army (HdA) because the NVA used it.
The house is owned by the city of Stralsund. It was renovated between 2000 and 2001. The coat of arms of Swedish Pomerania , which existed on the gable until the 1990s, was removed and has since disappeared. A replica was attached to the renovated house on September 23, 2003:
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The eight meter wide and four meter high coat of arms was created by the Greifswald sculptor Heinrich Zenichowski over a period of one year. The house owners (a property community with two private individuals and the Citizens' Committee Rettet die Altstadt Stralsund eV ) financed the work. The design goes back to the nobility letter of the Swedish king for the members of the Stralsund council from 17020. The Swedish lion, the Pomeranian griffin and the elements of the Stralsund coat of arms are depicted. The crown and blue color refer to Sweden. The attached helmet ornament is remarkable, and the paw cross from the Stralsund coat of arms was moved to the point.
The Commander's House is in the core area of the UNESCO as a world heritage site recognized urban area of the inheritance Historic Centers of Stralsund and Wismar . It is also part of the Schwedenstrasse , a holiday route in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg with a cultural-historical theme. It is included with the number 15 in the list of architectural monuments in Stralsund .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the history of the house on an information board on the facade, seen and photographed in July 2018.
- ↑ Information on the coat of arms of the commandant's house on an information board on the facade, seen and photographed in July 2018.
Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 28 ″ E