Dompropstei Halberstadt

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Dompropstei Halberstadt
coat of arms
Corner on Domplatz
Spiegelsche Curia (Domplatz 36)

The former Dompropstei is a half-timbered building with a solid ground floor with the address Domplatz 14 in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt . It shapes the image of the cathedral square and is used today by the Harz University of Applied Sciences .

History and architecture

The building to the southwest of Halberstadt Cathedral was built between 1591–1611 under Bishop Heinrich Julius as the seat of the episcopal administration. The farm was first mentioned in 1156. After the abolition of the diocese in 1648, the building was used as the administrative seat of the Principality of Halberstadt. In the years 1901–1904 an extensive renovation was carried out by the then town planning officer Ernst Schmidt. During the air raid on Halberstadt on April 8, 1945 , the structure suffered severe damage. Among other things, the wall paintings by G. Barlösius with scenes from the city's history in the meeting room were destroyed. However, the structure could be restored in the years 1949–1961. From 1945 to 1994 the building served as Halberstadt's town hall and registry office. Externally, the building was restored around the year 2000.

The building is a two-wing, two-story complex, the side wing of which originally extended to Schmiedestrasse. A heavily cantilevered half-timbered upper storey is built over the stone arcades and the massive ground floor, while wooden arches were originally arranged towards the courtyard. The building is adorned with rich coat of arms reliefs of the canons; Carved coats of arms are attached to the parapet of the half-timbered upper floor, which once belonged to the no longer existing cathedral cellar south of the cathedral. At the corner of the Domplatz there is a carved console figure, which is dated and signed with Bartolomäus Truteborn 1611 and Heinrich Heuer. Under the arcade, a stone sculpture of St. Stephen's Cathedral is placed in a shell niche. This sculpture was badly damaged by vandalism on December 28, 2009 . To the street Unter den Zwicken there is a double portal with framework in a flat pilaster frame . The hall on the ground floor is closed off by a star vault over columns and leaf consoles. The staircase is provided with an openwork stone parapet from the years 1901–1904.

Surroundings

In the immediate vicinity of the building, in addition to the cathedral and Church of Our Lady, there are several curiae and canon courts , some of which have been documented since the 12th century and are now mostly used as museums or public buildings. The Petershof and the buildings on the north side of Domplatz 34 and Domplatz 36 (the so-called Spiegelsche Kuria ), the considerably simpler Gleimhaus Domplatz 31 and the curia buildings Domplatz 3 and Domplatz 4 belonging to the Liebfrauenstift are of particular interest .

The Spiegelsche Kuria has been used as a municipal museum since 1905 and is an elaborate, massive sandstone building with a mansard roof from 1782, which was probably built by the master builder Johann Christian Huth . Above the tri-axial means risalit a is tail gable with the mirror's crest disposed in the tympanum. A small court of honor is formed by single-storey side buildings facing Domplatz , the right of these buildings houses the Natural History Museum, also known as the Heineanum Museum .

The neighboring Kurie Domplatz 34 , the former cathedral mechanic, was built in 1754 in the style of small rural castle buildings and rebuilt in the original form in 1914/1915; it is used today as the company headquarters.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , pp. 334–335.

Web links

Commons : Dompropstei (Halberstadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information board on the building
  2. ↑ Götz Eckardt (ed.): Fates of German architectural monuments in the Second World War. Volume 1. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 228.
  3. ↑ Saint Stephen damaged on Halberstädter Domplatz. Accessed July 30, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 43.6 "  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 49.5"  E