Eimbeck's house
The Eimbecksche Haus (also spelled Eimbeck'sches Haus ) was a stone building in Hamburg . Its origin had it as the third in the 13th century Resulting City Hall , whose remains as Ratskeller served and wine storage and built above the other buildings later, in addition unterschiedlichster use also the serving of Einbecker beer served.
It was on the corner of Kleine Johannisstrasse and Dornbusch in the old town .
After the unification of the episcopal old town (Hamburg's old core around the cathedral and Petrikirche ) with the count's new town (laid out by the Schauenburg counts in the 12th century in the area of St. Nikolai ), a new joint town hall was built after the unification of the episcopal old town .
It was built roughly where the ramparts of the two towns met and consisted of a narrow gabled house with a floor plan of 26 by 18 meters. It contained a hall in which the council met and which was reached via an arcade. Public announcements such as the Bursprake were read from the arbor . The cellar protruded above the ground level and was mentioned as a council wine cellar as early as 1270.
In a raging city fire in 1284, the house was badly damaged; only the vaulted cellar remained. After this fire, a new town hall building was built on Neß near the Trostbrücke .
Above the "cellar", also known as the wine house ( domus vini ) since 1293, a new building, the hove or hoge Huus , was built in the 14th century at the latest . By the 18th century, the building had evolved into a link between houses built closely together. These include the three-storey Rathsweinkeller with a small and large drinking room, a large hall and a higher main building with the gentleman's hall , as well as the municipal mint building attached to the east. The building in need of renovation was finally rebuilt by the municipal building yard 1769–1771 (yard management: Johannes Kopp ) and finally renovated and redistributed after the French occupation .
The whole house was named after the Eimbeck beer , as it was the only licensed bar in town and also served as a transshipment warehouse. In the late Middle Ages, as the Hanseatic brewery, Hamburg was itself an exporter of beer with countless breweries . The monopoly of the Eimbeck house, which probably also insisted on Rhine wine and Braunschweiger Mumme , ended after the Reformation by resolution in 1531.
The use of the building with its various rooms and halls remained varied over the centuries. Citizens' meetings and festivities, including the Petri and Matthiae meals , were held there, auctions took place and a pawnshop was set up. In 1570 armaments were stored in it. In 1614, the rooms of the old Accise above the cellar were used as the deposit and draw location for the first state lottery in a German country, where cash prizes were raffled for the first time.
In 1668 - for the first time in Hamburg - coffee was also served in the Eimbeck house . In 1686 the mayor Johann Slüter was imprisoned here in the course of disputes during a Danish siege and also died here. The Patriotic Society moved into a room in the new building from 1771 and held the first exhibition of works of art, works and useful inventions in Hamburg in the large hall of the Ratskeller.
After 1814, the lower court, commercial court, customs and excise offices and a lottery room were housed here. The anatomical theater , which existed in the old building before 1770, was rebuilt. The Hamburger Sparcasse moved into its first office in 1827 in the Eimbeck house. In winter, the members of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 met in the Ratsweinkeller of the house on Saturdays .
On the evening of May 6, 1842, the house was hit by fire. The ruins and the half-collapsed cellar were demolished. For the new development, the Dornbusch was enlarged a little and the location of the Kleine Johannisstrasse changed a little.
Before the demolition, a large Hamburg coat of arms , which was attached to the Dornbusch above the double staircase, and a statue of Bacchus , which was in a niche below the stairs next to the entrance to the Ratsweinkeller, were removed from the ruins . Both had been installed by the Swedish sculptor Johann Wilhelm Manstadt (1722–1788) from Pirnaic sandstone provided by the building yard and in 1770 at the expense of the Ratsweinkeller. When today's town hall was rebuilt, the Bacchus figure was placed above the staircase leading to the council wine cellar there.
literature
- Eduard Meyer: The Eimbecksche House in Hamburg . W. Maucke Sons, Hamburg 1868 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
- Jonas Ludwig von Heß : Hamburg described topographically, politically and historically . second edition. tape 2 . Hamburg 1811, p. 366 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
- Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg (shown on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with information about the area and life history). Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908, p. 150 ( archive.org ).
- Hamburg monuments . a topographical-political-historical handbook for locals and friends. Bachmann and Gundermann, Hamburg 1794, p. 178 ff ., urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-db-id3209543151 .
References and comments
- ↑ Note: Dornbusch arose as a misinterpretation of the vine wreath carried by the Eimbeck house as a symbol. Originally Höker- (1271), then Garbrader- (1298) or Braderstraße (1337; Garbrader = special cook / cookshop).
- ^ Svante Domizlaff: The Hamburg City Hall Ed. Maritime, Hamburg 2002
- ↑ Eduard Meyer, p. 40ff.
- ↑ Eduard Meyer, p. 60
- ↑ Landmarks from the life of the Patriotic Society ( Memento from July 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Eduard Meyer, p. 70
- ^ F. Georg Buek: Hamburgische Alterthümer , Perthes Hamburg 1859; P. 108