Eickesches house

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After the complete renovation in 2008, the carvings were no longer colored.

The Eick Ash House in the pedestrian area of Einbeck is a richly decorated with figurative carving Grade II listed timber-framed house of the late Renaissance . Today it houses the city tourist information and the cultural ring.

Image program

The Atlant on the ground floor

The facades of the Eickesches Haus are decorated with rich carvings that make up the cultural significance of the building. The motifs come from the educational world of humanism , the Reformation and the Renaissance and antiquity. The thresholds of the protruding upper floors, the 51 consoles and the filler wood are decorated with ornamental carvings. The numerous figurative representations on the 42 existing parapet plates show Christ, the four evangelists, the five senses , the planetary deities , the seven liberal arts as well as the virtues (e.g. faith, love, patience or prudence) and the muses (such as Erato , Euterpe , Kalliope or Polyhymnia ). The eleven apostles, seven warriors and 25 hermen pilasters are depicted in the posts of the window areas above the parapets . There are also 110 carved heads and masks. On the front corner beam, three warrior figures stand on top of each other as atlases , each apparently supporting the floors above them.

The Middle Low German inscriptions in the corner area between the cleats on the first floor come from the Proverbs of Solomon and from the 37th Psalm .

History and architecture

Plastered facade facing Marktstrasse and a former side entrance that is still recognizable (photo before 1875)

17th and 18th centuries

The Eickesche Haus was built by a merchant around 1612 around 50 m east of the Clarisse monastery. Client and builder have not been handed down. It stands five compartments wide with the eaves facing Marktstrasse and is eight compartments deep. On the ground floor of the house with a basement was the spacious hallway and partly a mezzanine floor. The first floor served as a living area, the second as a warehouse, as did the attic. The house was attached to the neighboring house at Marktstrasse 15 without its own south wall. Originally there was also an entrance on Bonehauerstrasse. The corner on the ground floor, originally two compartments wide, with a cantilevered pillar with fully sculpted warrior statues was unique.

In the 18th century, the side entrance in the Kniehauerstraße was closed and in 1722 a carved plate by the muse Jubal was added. Partitions were put in on the ground floor. New windows were installed several times. Around 1780 there was another renovation on the facades. The open corner was closed and the side facing Marktstrasse was plastered. Before that, the virtues Pax and Temperantia must have been moved from the parapet zone to the head zone of the same compartments. A shop installation around 1835 meant that large shop windows were installed on the ground floor. When a new window was installed around 1875, the original panel with the theological virtue Spes was lost. The remains of the entrance portal, which was already closed earlier, in the Kniehauerstraße have been removed.

Restoration at the end of the 19th century

The plate depicting the theological virtue of hope ( lat.spes ) is an addition to the restoration of 1888
The plates from Pax and Temperantia were moved to this location around 1780; including 2 of the 4 apostles

At the end of the 19th century, the preservation of monuments began with the uncovering of the 62-year-old plastered facade on Marktstrasse in August 1888 and the restoration until 1894. The merchant Hermann Eicke, after whom it has been named, carried this out with the help of the city. In order to apply the plaster and to remove it, the heads at the ends of the joists in particular were destroyed and had to be replaced. On the façade facing the Kniehauerstrasse, carvings were added to include the former portal. On the ground floor, the plates of the muses Terpsichore and Thalia were added in 1890 , but without musical instruments; on the mezzanine floor the virtues of Spes and Justitia. New, large shop windows were installed on the Marktstrasse side for use as a shop. The half-timbering and the carvings were painted relatively dark with linseed oil with the addition of ocher and black.

It was not until 1902 that the facade was made polychrome based on a design by the Hanoverian decorative and art painter Reinhold Ebeling. The owner Eicke paid 50 marks of the cost of painting over 1,316 marks , and the association for history and antiquities of the Einbeck district paid 100 marks. In 1938 the last, original Renaissance window in the bone-carved facade was removed. It had six equally sized fields with hexagonal glazing. In 1968, all the windows facing towards Bonehauerstraße were added for a shop renovation and the walls on the ground floor for the extension from 1938 and the annex at Marktstraße 15 were removed. In addition, the facade was given a new color scheme.

Renovation in the 21st century

Affixing a memorial plaque by State Minister Johanna Wanka , 2012

In 1999 it was found that the stability of the Eickesches Haus was at risk. It was then poorly supported. The Eickesches Haus Foundation, founded by the citizens of Einbeck, took over in 2001. By 2006, the Foundation had collected 1.5 million euros, made up of 30 major donations and 1,800 individual donations averaging 150 euros. 0.5 million euros in funding came from the public sector . Construction work began in 2002, initially mainly to restore stability. At the beginning of September 2006 the restored building was inaugurated with a ceremony, church service and community festival. In 2007/08, after discussions between citizens and conservationists, a historical wood-view version was made with linseed oil based on the model from 1888, as the carvings had only been multi-colored in 1902 and 1968. Only the inscriptions were set off in gold. The restored Eickesche Haus was awarded the German Half- Timbered Prize in 2009 for particularly exemplary and exemplary renovation of a half-timbered building. At the 14th day of the Lower Saxony Monument Preservation on June 9, 2012 in Einbeck, the Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture Johanna Wanka put the first monument plaque in Lower Saxony on the house.

Classification and comparable structures

The original corner solution at the Eickesches Haus is unique in this form in northern Germany, so that it is a monument of national importance. The pictorial carvings are reminiscent of half-timbered buildings in Hildesheim , which were largely destroyed in World War II, and in Alfeld , such as the old Latin school , which was built and decorated in 1610 by Andreas Steiger from Hildesheim. The Kassebeersche Haus in Northeim also does not have such rich figurative decoration. A later comparable building is the Krummelsche Haus in Wernigerode from 1674.

literature

  • 400 years of civic pride, 2012 Edited by Georg Folttmann and Betina Meißner, ISBN 978-3-8353-1063-6
  • Holger Reimers: The Eickesche Haus . In: Einbecker yearbook . tape 50 . Einbeck 2007, p. 12-105 .
  • Ingrid Esser: The Eicke'sche House in Einbeck. A contribution to the decoration of Lower Saxony half-timbered houses of the Renaissance . In: Studies on Einbeck's history . tape 8 , 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. Horst Hülse: Einbeck, No. 133 . In: www.inschriften.net
  2. ^ Adolf Radvan: The Eickesche Haus. 20 articles from the Einbecker Morgenpost . Einbeck, 2002
  3. Delia Ehrenheim-Schmidt: "The star is the Eickesche Haus" . In: Einbecker yearbook . tape 50 . Einbeck 2007, p. 8-11 .
  4. Eicke'sches Haus: For the 400th birthday the first memorial plaque at: einbeck-city.de from June 9, 2012

Web links

Commons : Eickesches Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 2.7 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 58 ″  E