Eleven Apostle House (Braunschweig)

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The Elf Apostle House around 1910.
Detail of the house around 1900. The Gothic apostle figures and the coat of arms above the entrance are clearly recognizable.
View from Prinzenweg to “Beginekenworth”, the property on which the Elf Apostle House stood until it was destroyed in World War II . In the background the rest of the city walls from the 15th century.
Rest of the city wall from the 15th century. The Elf Apostel House was directly adjacent to the rear of this section of the wall.

The eleven Apostles House ( Acts house ) was a built around 1560 half-timbered house in Braunschweig , in the historic precincts of Old Town . It was on the street that has been called Prinzenweg since the 1870s . The three-storey structure was destroyed during the Second World War.

history

Steffen Bartram had the building with the insurance number 556 (later Prinzenweg 4) built as a residential building directly adjacent to the southern city ​​wall . The inscription: "STEFFEN BARTRAM // M // D // LX" ( Steffen Bartram 1560 ) was on a bar . It remained in his possession until 1591.

On the street side, three-dimensional Gothic figures of the eleven apostles were attached to the house on the second floor , which were repainted at the beginning of the 20th century. For this reason the building was popularly known as the “Eleven Apostle House” or just the “Apostle House”. In 1600 it was bought by Curd Döring (also Doring ), mayor of the old town, and had his family's coat of arms affixed to the house facade above the entrance door. It was renewed in 1889. In 1609, 20 women donated 20 colored, round glass panes (each 11 cm in diameter) for the interior decoration, on which the coats of arms of the families of the donors were depicted. In 1935 the board of the "Döring Foundation" handed these discs over to the Braunschweig Municipal Museum , which still owns them today.

Döring Foundation

In 1610, Döring set up a beguinage in this house and an outbuilding , called the “Döring Foundation”, also called “Curd-Döring Convent” or “To the eleven apostles”. It originally offered accommodation to 10 single women. In 1625, Döring decreed in will that the foundation would be continued as a permanent charitable institution. In 1873 it was granted the status of a “ mild foundation ” by statutory regulation . The foundation was managed by one of the founder's descendants.

The names and numbers of the conventuals can be traced seamlessly from 1711 to the year of the destruction during the Second World War. The maximum number of residents was reached in the 17th century and could be held until 1734; thereafter the number fell, with an average of seven women, mostly widows or unmarried women, inhabiting the convent. Nine conventual women are recorded for 1897 and three for 1936.

destruction

How large parts of the area around the Prinzenweg, such. B. Echternstraße , Güldenstraße , Südstraße , Bäckerklint , Radeklint and Südklint , the Elf-Apostelhaus was also destroyed in the Second World War. However, the Knaggen figures were saved and are now in the Braunschweig City Museum together with the glass paintings of the 20 family coats of arms that were handed over in 1935. After the rubble was cleared, the property was not built on again and, as a mixture of sidewalk and square, was given its current name “Beginekenworth”, which refers to the beguines who lived in the destroyed Elf Apostle House.

Although the Elf-Apostel-Haus and thus the seat of the Döring Foundation went under in the Second World War and the residents lost their homes, the foundation actually continues to exist, as it has not been officially dissolved until today.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig, Part 1. Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-252-4 , p. 123.
  2. ^ Heinrich Meier : News about town houses of earlier centuries. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Nro. February 5, 28, 1897, p. 40.
  3. ^ German inscriptions online
  4. ↑ Paul Jonas Meier , Karl Steinacker : The architectural and art monuments of the city of Braunschweig. 2nd, expanded edition, Braunschweig 1926, p. 39.
  5. ^ A b Heinrich Meier : Heraldic investigations in the architecture of the city of Braunschweig. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Nro. January 1, 1903, p. 40.
  6. ↑ Werner Spieß: History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages. From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of urban freedom 1491–1671 , Volume 1, p. 147.
  7. ^ German inscriptions online
  8. ^ Heinrich Meier : News about town houses of earlier centuries. In: Paul Zimmermann (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Magazin. Nro. January 1st, 3rd, 1897, p. 40.
  9. ↑ Annette Boldt-Stülzebach: Beguinages. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 31 .
  10. ^ A b Annette Boldt: The welfare system of the city of Braunschweig in the late Middle Ages and early modern times…. P. 225.
  11. ^ A b Annette Boldt: The welfare system of the city of Braunschweig in the late Middle Ages and early modern times…. P. 379.
  12. ^ Rudolf Blasius (Ed.): Braunschweig in the year MDCCCXCVII. Festschrift for the participants in the LXIX meeting of German natural scientists and doctors. Meyer, Braunschweig 1897, ( digitized version ), p. 427.
  13. ^ Braunschweigisches Adressbuch for the year 1936. 122nd edition, printing and publishing house Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1936, p. 187.
  14. ↑ Werner Spieß: History of the city of Braunschweig in the post-Middle Ages. From the end of the Middle Ages to the end of urban freedom 1491–1671. P. 665.
  15. ↑ Braunschweig guidance and information system for culture (BLIK) on Beginekenworth
  16. ↑ Annette Boldt: The welfare system of the city of Braunschweig in the late Middle Ages and early modern times…. P. 225, fn. 101.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 34.4 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 55.4"  E