Demmler House
The Demmler House in Schwerin , Altstadt district , Arsenalstrasse 10 / corner of Mecklenburgstrasse , is a monument in Schwerin . The building now houses shops and offices.
history
Georg Adolf Demmler was Schwerin's most important architect and town planner in the 19th century. In 1832 master builder, in 1835 state master builder and court builder, and in 1841 court building officer and palace builder, he designed most of the plans for the stately expansion of Schwerin.
Until 1843 he built the three-storey, plastered, historicizing and romanticizing house in the Tudor style with a four-storey, massive corner tower, two four-storey rectangular turrets with medieval tent roofs , one of them with a lantern , and two lateral classicist gables , in a central location on Pfaffenteich risalite and with the differentiated arched windows.
Numerous conversions were carried out for the shops on the ground floor. Today (2020) is here u. a. the customer service of Stadtwerke Schwerin (SWS).
The eccentric and wealthy Demmler had also been a Freemason since 1826 , a member of the Schwerin Citizens' Committee since 1845 and a proponent of the achievements of the 1848 revolution (which led to his dismissal as court architect in 1851), in exile from 1851 to 1857, from 1867 in the Peace and Freedom League for the United States of Europe , since 1873 for the Social Democrats and since 1876 Social Democratic member of the Reichstag .
literature
- Margot Krempien: Schwerin castle builder GA Demmler 1804–1886. A biography. Demmler Verlag, Schwein 1991, ISBN 3-910150-06-3 .
- Margot Krempien: Georg Adolph Demmler 1804–1886. Court building officer and social democrat. Schwerin 1982.
- Jürgen Borchert : Schwerin as it was. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0951-7 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 49.9 " N , 11 ° 24 ′ 43" E