Faulbaum's house

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View of the building in 2013
View of the building between 1890 and 1900 as a residential building
View of the building from around 1910 as a hotel with a cinema on the ground floor

The Faulbaumsche house in Broad Street 78 is a Grade II listed building in the town of Wernigerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is a residential and commercial building that was previously used as an inn.

Architecture and history

The building is located on Breite Straße , one of the city's main shopping streets, on the corner with Schenkstraße. It is two-story and has a flat roof . The ground floor of the building consists of roe stone and the first floor consists of cantilevered functional half-timbering . It can be clearly seen that it was originally a much larger building.

The house was built from 1680 to 1684 by Hans Faulbaum as a splendid merchant's house and was named Faulbaum's house . It consisted of four storeys with a half-hip roof and on the upper storeys had a braided bay window with a helmet and a spire. At the time it was the largest half-timbered house in the city. In 1899, Hans Hoffmann emphasized the stately simplicity of the house in his book Der Harz and used the term Neustädter Rathaus . Eduard Jacobs also called it the Neustadt town hall or old town hall and brewery in 1885 and added that at that time there was no longer any special advice in the Neustadt . At that time there was a gate heading on Schenkstraße with the year 1680 and on Breite Straße the number 1685.

According to a legend , a bear was buried at the Neustädter Schenke at Breite Straße 80 and covered with the so-called bear stone. Hence the name of the Hotel Zum Neustädter Bären , which was later called “Zum Bären” for short.

Heinrich Heine tells in the appendix to his Harz trip that he had a glass of beer at the landlady's Zum Bären in Wernigerode. On September 8, 1824, Heine was also in Wernigerode on his way from Ilsenburg to Elbingerode. It remains to be seen whether he was referring to Faulbaum's house or the Bärenstein in the Neustädter tavern .

"The well-groomed, fat landlady, who brought us beer, seemed to feel particularly blissful in her fat and could not be surprised enough how we knew that the long-awaited gracious counts had returned to the castle today , and poured out a long description of all the celebrations that took place, wreaths of flowers, speeches, arches of honor, emotion, music, etc. If my compatriots hadn't been in such a hurry, I might still be with the good fat guy and let me tell me about the Wernigroder celebrations. "

- Heinrich Heine

In 1901 the house was rebuilt and received the appearance that still exists today on the ground floor, which now had shop windows. Auguste Heinecke, owner of the house since 1892, opened the Hotel Zum Neustädter Bären in the same year , later only called Hotel zum Bären .

On December 10, 1909, Carl Wedekind opened a cinema in an adjoining room of the hotel, which he called the World Theater . It did not seem to have been successful, because on July 28, 1910 the opening of the Walhalla-Tonbild-Theater by Wilhelm Böhling was announced. The cinema was in operation until around 1914, when it became a retail store.

During the bombing raid on Wernigerode on February 22, 1944, the house was so badly damaged that only the ground floor and the first floor could be preserved. A memorial plaque on the house reminds of this. After a makeshift repair, a flat roof was placed on the first floor. After that, the ground floor was used as the HO restaurant “Zum Bären” until the 1960s, and from the 1970s the Penguin milk bar was located there and an Intershop on the left . Today there is a hairdressing salon and a shop there.

In the list of cultural monuments of the city of Wernigerode, the house is recorded as an architectural monument under registration number 094 01835.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the information board that is attached to the house.
  2. ↑ Hans Hoffmann: Der Harz , CF Amelangs verlag, 1899, p. 132 online
  3. ↑ Eduard Jacobs : Overview of the history u. Monuments of Wernigerode and the surrounding area . 1885, p. 49 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Heinrich Pröhle: Unterharzische Sagen: 171. The bear stone in front of the Neustädter tavern. 1856, p. 68 , accessed September 28, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Georg von Gynz-Rekowski : Wernigerode in old views . 2nd Edition. European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 2001, ISBN 90-288-5165-8 (first edition: 1991).
  6. ^ Heinrich Heine's complete works, fourth volume , appendix to the "Harzreise" p. 420, Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1910 online
  7. ^ Neue Wernigeröder Zeitung , edition 16/2005 and 25/2008 as well as the specialist journal Der Kinematograph 156/1909 and 188/1910
  8. ^ Hans Hartmann, Ewald Mrozik: Travel Guide German Democratic Republic . VEB FA Brockhaus, 1966, p. 182 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ↑ Joachim Bahrmann, Helmut Beyrich, Otto Werner: Travel Guide German Democratic Republic . Tourist-Verlag, 1978, p. 211 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  10. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670): Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 8.2 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 25.9 ″  E