Eckmänneken
The Eckmänneken is a 1471 -built and as a cultural monument been instructed town house in the old town of Warburg . It is located on the old town square at Langen Straße 2 on the corner of Klockenstraße and is considered the oldest half-timbered house in Westphalia with an inscription. Since 1560 at the latest, it was the official building of the Warburg bakers' guild .
Architecture and building history
The house consists of two adjoining structures, a three-story front building and a two-story rear building extension. Both components are made of oak beams in half-timbered construction, the compartments are plastered and painted white.
The stands of the front building go from the ground floor to the first floor. The second floor and the gable roof protrude. Characteristic is the stiffening of the street-side parapet zone of the protruding former warehouse floor with a row of crossed foot struts and front transom bars. Inside, the house originally included a high central hall and two-story aisles. The Latin inscription "Anno domini Speicher feria St. Margarete hec domus aedificata est" in the gable-sided storage floor threshold translates as: "In the year of the Lord 1471 on the day of St. Margaret (= July 20th) this house was built". On the corner of the house facing the market there are two approx. 62 cm high sculptural representations of crouching men, with their short belted skirts and gothic tapered tights giving a vivid picture of the clothing fashion of the 16th century.
The rear building was built according to the inscription in the posts in 1560 and decorated with Renaissance forms such as carved leaf tendrils and fan rosettes. Pretzels and Wecken indicate its function as the official building of the bakers' guild . Originally, the rear building had a vaulted cellar that was accessible from the Deele and above it a hall that apparently served as a meeting room for the bakers.
In the early 19th century, the gable wall of the front building on the lower two floors was renewed, losing the former portal and protrusion.
In 1965 the building in need of renovation was severely damaged by the Diemel flood in 1965 . It was then completely dismantled and reconstructed on a new cellar according to the planning of the architect Ulrich Volmert. It is now used as a restaurant and for residential purposes.
literature
- Wilhelm Hansen , Kreft Herbert: half-timbered in the Weser area. Niemeyer, Hameln 1980, ISBN 3-87585-048-3 ( architecture in Weser area 3).
- Fred Kaspar : Half-timbered buildings in Westphalia before 1600. Coppenrath, Münster 1978, ISBN 3-920192-69-9 ( contributions to popular culture in north-west Germany 14). ( Full text as PDF )
- Elmar Nolte: On the secular building of the medieval city of Warburg. In: Franz Mürmann (ed.): The city of Warburg. 1036-1986. Contributions to the history of a city. Volume 2. Hermes, Warburg 1986, ISBN 3-922032-07-9 , p. 165.
- Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: Warburg district. With a historical introduction by Gerhard Pfeiffer. Aschendorff, Münster 1939 ( architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 44).
- Josef Schepers : House and farm of German farmers, Vol. 2: Westfalen-Lippe , Münster 1960.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description as Monument of the Month September 2007 at the Working Group on Historic City Centers NRW ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 11, 2011
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 48.8 ″ E