Half-timbered museum (Quedlinburg)

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Half-timbered museum "Ständerbau", 2006
Photo from 1893
Mortise locks on the stands
before 1978
Stand construction in 1982
2013

The half-timbered museum stand construction of the Quedlinburg municipal museums is a half-timbered museum and listed half-timbered house in Quedlinburg.

location

The museum is located in the historic old town of Quedlinburg at the address Wordgasse 3 at the junction between Wordgasse and Word street. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is listed as a residential building in the Quedlinburg Register of Monuments .

History and architecture

According to dendrochronological investigations, the date is 1346/47. As a stand- alone building, it is one of the oldest in Quedlinburg and, to illustrate the post- and-beam construction principle, the most striking.

The building is two-story and has a floor space of only 48 m². It has stands six meters high and running through both floors. The stands are pegged into the threshold as well as in the upper frame . The beams of the storey ceiling are connected to the posts by means of mortise locks , which are secured with two wooden nails . Another wooden nail connects the stand and ceiling beams. There are four layers of bars between the individual stands for stabilization. The lower threshold rests on a base made of rubble stones and sandstone blocks . When wood is used machined with a hatchet conifers . The compartments are filled with wooden sticks into which willow branches are woven. A plaster several centimeters thick with straw clay is applied to this network . In addition, there is a lime plaster that also covers the crossbars.

The ground floor of the house was originally formed by a three meter high hall. On the upper floor the room height was 2.10 meters. Several renovations took place in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building has been used for residential purposes since at least the 18th century. The hall was in the northwest part of the ground floor. Its ceiling consisted of planks connected by tongue and groove. Baroque paintings with large leaf tendrils could still be seen here until 1968. There was also painting on the walls. A staircase led to the upper floor. The single flight of stairs had baroque board balusters as a railing. From the hall one got into the room. The kitchen was adjacent to the chimney and was located in the south-western part of the building.

It was inhabited until 1968. At this point in time, however, the building had significant structural defects, so that renovation measures were carried out as early as 1965. A survey had already been made in 1958, and the design for the conversion was then available in 1966. In 1969 the restoration was completed. The construction defects particularly affected the rafter roof with flattened collar beam . Most of the roof had to be torn down and then restored, as all the rafter feet had been destroyed. The majority of the rafters were also broken in the area of ​​the lobes. Hollow tiles in lime mortar strips serve as roof cladding. The walls were also extensively renovated. A third of the original wall was preserved on the west and south sides. The east and courtyard sides were largely renewed. Instead of loam stacks, compartments to be renewed were walled up with hollow bricks . When work began, 65% of the original construction and 20% of the loam stacking were still there, but the latter was largely incoherent. After completion, around a third of the historical building fabric remained. In the course of time, changes were made, such as the creation of new, larger window openings, a front door in the western facade to the hall and massive walls with a chimney in the kitchen area, were brought back to the original state. So, after a confirmed original window, the house also got the very small windows from the construction period.

A Klöntür that originally faced the street was moved to the courtyard side. The lower part of the door is decorated with blind arcades.

After the renovation, a museum was set up in the house and opened in 1976. Since then it has been providing information in the form of an exhibition on the history of half-timbered construction from the 14th to the 20th century. The individual styles of Quedlinburg half-timbered construction are clearly illustrated using models. Various aspects, such as magnificent ornaments or inscriptions, are specially described. In particular, the rescued parts of the splendid cleats, for example the baker's guild building, which was demolished in 1901, impress with their attention to detail. The most important exhibit, however, is the half-timbered house, the construction of which is described as light and a little swaying.

In July 1997 the building was badly damaged in an arson attack. The ticket office burned out and several components recovered from other, demolished buildings were charred. On the west facade, two posts including struts, transoms and ceiling beams were badly damaged. Property damage of 100,000 marks resulted. A new renovation took place including the neighboring building Wordgasse 2 , which is also listed .

literature

  • Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 742 f.
  • Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg. A guide to the world heritage city. 13th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , page 759.
  • CC Hennrich in Fachwerk Lehrpfad, A tour through Quedlinburg from the Middle Ages to the 19th century , Deutsches Fachwerkzentrum Quedlinburg eV, Quedlinburg 2011, ISBN 3-937648-13-5 , page 22 ff.
  • Frank Högg: Structural research in Quedlinburg. Half-timbered houses from the 13th and 14th centuries . In: Uwe Steinecke (Red.): Historical building research in Saxony-Anhalt (= work reports of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt 6). Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt. Imhof, Petersberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-137-9 , pp. 251-280.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 286.

Web links

Commons : Ständerbau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 103
  2. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 104
  3. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 742 f.
  4. ↑ Christa Rienäcker, Quedlinburger Stadtgeschichte in Daten in Festschrift 1000 Years of Market, Minting and Customs Law Quedlinburg , publisher: Stadt Quedlinburg, 1994, page 156
  5. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 104
  6. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 104

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '17.9 "  N , 11 ° 8' 25.8"  E