Eulenspiegelhaus (Braunschweig)

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Easter 1897: Left the Eulenspiegelhaus , right the Haus Zum wilden Mann
Around 1900: The Eulenspiegelhaus with still largely plastered half-timbering
1906: The Eulenspiegelbrunnen is built (in the background on the left the Eulenspiegelhaus ).

The Eulenspiegel house on Bäckerklint 11 in Braunschweig was a half-timbered house in the so-called " flea angle " of the historic precincts of Old Town . It was built around 1630 and, like all of the surrounding buildings , was completely destroyed and not rebuilt by the bombing of the Second World War , especially that of October 15, 1944 .

history

Owners of buildings that have stood on the property were u. a .: Herman v. Wendhusen (1386–1400), Tilen v. Eltze (1403-1412), Hennig v. Boltzem (1423–1457), Tilen Hanedorp (1457–1471), Hennig Mathias (1486–1507), the Flor and Nothvogel (1517–1586) and Mathias Angerstein (1623–1669). Angerstein had a new half-timbered house built in 1630 and it was marked with the initials M.A. Mistake.

The six window wide, two- storey , eaves- facing house with the insurance numbers 875, 876 was on the east side of the baker's clint. Due to the colorless plastering of the half-timbered structure , the house appeared rather inconspicuous and unadorned, but from around the second half of the 19th century it became the center of interest due to the onset of tourism in Braunschweig. Several pranks by Till Eulenspiegel have Braunschweig as the setting and so this circumstance was used to promote tourism. Although the house at Bäckerklint 11 was only built in 1630 - almost 300 years after the events that have been handed down - a wooden Eulenspiegel statue by the sculptor Julius Meyer was first attached to the southern corner of the house in 1869, at the level of the first floor. The plaster was gradually removed and the carvings on the beams and lugs were colored. A large lettering, first placed above the ground floor and later in the middle of the top sill beam under the dormer window with the inscription EULENSPIEGELHAUS, pointed to the legend .

Legend: Eulenspiegel as a journeyman baker

Legend has it that the jester Till Eulenspiegel , who came from the village of Kneitlingen , 20 km southeast of Braunschweig, played some of his pranks in Braunschweig around 1350, including one who played at a baker's at the Bäckerklint and where Till Eulenspiegel baked bread instead of bread , from the dough " owls and meerkats " (in Low German , which was spoken in the city at the time: Ulen un Apen ) formed and baked. The baker's house is said to have stood on the plot of land on which the building, erected around 1630 and named "Eulenspiegelhaus" in allusion to this event, stood.

"Owls and monkeys"

Eulenspiegel bakes owls and monkeys. Woodcut from the book Ein kurtzweiliglesen by Dyl Vlenspiegel geborē vß dem land zů Brunßwick, printed in Strasbourg in 1515 . How he had done his life .xcvi. his stories.

The bakery on the ground floor produced biscuits in the shape of owls and monkeys every day until it was destroyed in World War II, and around 1939 it was selling up to 300 pieces a day. Even today you can buy “owls and meerkats” from some bakers in Braunschweig. In 1931 the sales room was repainted by the artist Adolf Otto Koeppen . Koeppen also had the children's book , published in 1942 by Ernst August Roloff , Attention, Eulenspiegel is laughing here! illustrated and the restaurant rooms of the Mummehaus directly opposite the Eulenspiegelhaus, artistically designed.

On the small square in front of the Eulenspiegel house 1906 of was Arnold Kramer designed and by the banker Bernhard Meyer Field donated Eulenspiegel fountain built, which is still there today. A life-size Eulenspiegel figure sits there raised and surrounded by owls and monkeys.

Open air performances

In the 1930s, the Braunschweigisches Landestheater used the picturesque backdrop of the Bäckerklint, in particular the Eulenspiegelhaus with the Eulenspiegelbrunnen , for open-air performances of popular plays, some of which had the pranks of Till Eulenspiegel as their theme.

The building that today stands on the Bäckerklint 11 site dates from 1977/78.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eulenspiegelhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Fricke: The community center in Braunschweig. P. 151.
  2. ^ A b Heinrich Meier : News about town houses of earlier centuries (end). In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. published by Paul Zimmermann , Nro. 9, April 25, 1897, p. 70
  3. ↑ Inscription on Deutsche Infschriften Online 56, Stadt Braunschweig II, A1, No. 266 † ( Sabine Wehking ), on inschriften.net.
  4. ^ Heinrich Edel: The half-timbered houses of the city of Braunschweig. A picture of art and cultural history. P. 125.
  5. ↑ The 61st history tells how Eulenspiegel hired a bread baker as a journeyman baker in Braunschweig and how he baked owls and meerkats on projekt-gutenberg.org
  6. ^ A b Norman-Mathias Pingel: Eulenspiegelhaus. P. 43.
  7. ↑ Henning Steinführer: The Brunswick Eulenspiegelbrunnen. P. 31.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 55.9 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 56 ″  E