Cranz's house

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Portal of the former house in the Hamburg Wallanlagen 53 ° 32 ′ 55 ″ N, 9 ° 59 ′ 44 ″ E
Back of the portal set up in the Hamburg ramparts with architectural elements from other houses

The Cranz'sche Haus or Haus Große Reichenstrasse 49 , also known as the Red House because of its facade color, was a Hamburg town house in the area of Hamburg's old town . The house was built in 1617 by senior senior Jürgen Schrötteringk in Große Reichenstrasse and demolished in 1890. The portal is preserved. Today it is located as an architectural fragment in the Hamburg ramparts near the Hamburg Museum .

facade

The house was built in the style of the Dutch Renaissance . A drawing from 1889 shows a five-story building, the facade of which is structured by columns and cornices and crowned by a gable. There are fluted , Doric pilasters at the portal . In the portal arch are two lion heads with open mouths and the coat of arms of the builder Schrötteringk. It shows a dove with a ring in its beak, which is putting it over a tree. In the arches are the coats of arms of Jürgen Schrötteringk's two wives: on the right the coat of arms of the Hartiges family (a rearing stag) and on the left the von Holte family (three trees). In the architrave there is a motto and the date of construction: Facilius est repraehendere quam imitari Ano 1617 (It is easier to blame than to imitate).

history

In the 17th century, the Hamburgers considered the house a haunted house because a citizen living there is said to have committed himself to the powers of hell who sent him compliant service spirits. In a legend, the intense red color of the facade is attributed to the blood of a suicide. At the beginning of the 19th century, an inn is said to have been run in the house and later the well-known music store Cranz, which is why it is also known as Cranz'sches Haus .

literature

  • Wilhelm Jesse , Gustav Schwantes , Hans Schröder: Guide through the Museum of Hamburg History . Alster-Verlag, Hamburg 1926, OCLC 248869609 , p. 6 .
  • Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg style of construction: brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg, depicted on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with chronological-biographical notes . Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908, OCLC 162607519 .
  • Uwe Meyer-Brunswick (text): Symbols in stone (=  Hamburg portrait . No. 10 ). Museum of Hamburg History, Hamburg 1987, DNB  880344385 .
  • Eduard Lorenz-Meyer : Hamburg coat of arms: compiled from Hamburg coat of arms books . Hamburg 1912, p. 53, 61, 133 (Reprint: 1976, ISBN 3-87947-107-X ).
  • Uwe Meyer-Brunswick: A Hamburg citizen palace of the 17th century: Investigations into the building history of selected specimens on the basis of pictorial and written sources . Thesis. University f. Fine Arts, Department of Architecture, Hamburg 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Jesse, G. Schwantes, H. Schröder: Guide through the Museum of Hamburg History. 1926, p. 6.
  2. ^ E. Lorenz-Meyer: Hamburg coat of arms roll. 1912, pp. 53, 61, 133.
  3. ^ Meyer-Brunswick: A Hamburg citizen palace. 1984, p. 12.
  4. ^ W. Melhop: Old Hamburg style of construction. 1908, p. 60.

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 54.4 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 43.7"  E