Domherrenhof (Meissen)
The Domherrenhof is a listed building in Meißen am Burgberg in the old town .
Defense tower and wine cellar are part of the fortifications of the so-called Afra and Domfreedom from the 12th century. Until 2008 the building was the seat of the district council.
history
The core of the main house dates from the 15th century and was heavily remodeled in the 19th century, while other secondary parts were added in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. The property in its current form is the result of several amalgamations and divisions with adjacent properties. In the 16th century, two buildings that did not belong together stood on the site of the street called Freiheit with house numbers 10 and 11.
The house was inhabited, among others, by the medical doctor , later by the cantor of St. Afra , followed by Heinrich Schleinitz in Ragwitz. After that, there were a number of changes of ownership.
In 1606 Albrecht von Bernstein zu Polenz bought the house and decorated it with the bear coat of arms that is still preserved today .
A special feature is the Meißner letter stone , which is now embedded in the eastern wall of the property. This is said to have been created around 1690, an earlier gate stone of the canon court. It shows a baroque monogram made up of the first four letters of the alphabet. According to the story, it is a souvenir of Martin Luther's translation of the Bible and the Meissen office German he used for it .
The last major renovations and new buildings date from the late 19th century, when the canon court became an agricultural school. In 1882 the economist Heinrich Adolf Steiger, the founder of this school, bought the canon court and ceded the property to the school in 1890 free of charge.
present
After the renovation by a private investor (1993/94), the district of Meißen sold the canon court and leased it long-term (until 2018) to use it as the seat of the district council and as a conference center. In 2006 the repurchase took place, for which the district received the negative price Schleudersachse . The second Saxon district reform in 2008 led to the expansion of the Meißen district , as a result of which the building was vacant.
In 2012 the building was bought by Elbland Service- und Logistik GmbH, a subsidiary of the district's own Elblandkliniken (with the district administrator as chairman of the supervisory board). In the same year it was opened as a five-star hotel with a restaurant and conference center of the Elbland Academy (also part of the Elbland clinics). After less than ten months, the Meißner Domherrenhof was unexpectedly closed again as part of austerity measures in October 2013 and sold to a businessman from Weinböhla at the end of 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Domherrenhof ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ "Schleuder-Sachse" goes to Meissen. In: Saxon newspaper . September 26, 2006, accessed January 15, 2018 .
- ↑ ELBLAND Service and Logistics GmbH
- ^ ELBLAND Academy
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Off for Meißner Domherrenhof , Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung
- ^ Canons' court becomes a noble villa. In: Sächsische Zeitung online. June 10, 2015, accessed January 15, 2018 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 44 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 6.8 ″ E