Domstrasse 12 (Nordhausen)

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Domstrasse 12 (2016)

The house at Domstrasse 12 in Nordhausen am Harz is one of the oldest residential buildings in Thuringia . The building is also known for the contrast between the heavy, massive base and the light half-timbered forms . The splendidly decorated upper floor rises above the quarry stone ground floor, which accommodates a gate and a pedestrian gate. The modest half-timbered part is a characteristic example of Lower Saxony half-timbered architecture of the 16th century. According to dendrochronological studies, the wood of the oldest beam was felled in 1303.

The building, which stands today in a series of simple houses, was probably not an arable bourgeois house due to its outstanding external design , but was part of the former fortifications of the old royal castle, which was later converted into a gatehouse and into a residential building in the course of the 18th century has been. The fundamental renovation was completed in summer 2016.

Architecture and history

Bohlenstube (2016)

From the neighboring buildings Barfüßerstraße 11, 12 and 13 was the Inner Barfüßer Tor or Old Gate ( valva antique ) of the city, its main entrance for the Reichsstraße coming from the west in a curve. The gate was broken off in 1800. Otto Riemenschneider assumes that the organism of the outer bailey of the royal settlement began behind the Barfüßer Tor. The mighty archway of the house at Domstrasse 12 was originally the passage for the path that led from the Barfüßer Tor under multiple curves into the outer bailey. Traces of an original system as a round arch can be seen on the pointed arches.

Detail of the truss with the fan rosettes on the projection

The basement comes from the Gothic period and is - unusually for a civil building - built monumentally. Hermann Wiedhaas is of the assumption that the first floor of the house was an entrance to a large piece of land, probably the royal outer bailey.

The house before renovation (2009)

literature

  • Otto Riemschneider: The former Heinrichsburg in Nordhausen. In: The thousand year old Nordhausen , Nordhausen 1927. P. 621 f.
  • Hermann Weidhaas: Half-timbered buildings in Nordhausen . Henschel, Berlin 1955. p. 34 f.

Web links

Commons : Domstraße 12 (Nordhausen)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Neue Nordhäuser Zeitung: Life will move in , July 19, 2016. Accessed on September 14, 2016.
  2. ^ Otto Riemschneider: The former Heinrichsburg in Nordhausen. In: The thousand year old Nordhausen , p. 621.
  3. ^ Hermann Weidhaas: Half-timbered buildings in Nordhausen . P. 34.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 17.8 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 27 ″  E