Finkenherd 2 (Quedlinburg)

House Finkenherd 2, west side

Haus Finkenherd 2 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

location

It is located on the north side of the Quedlinburger Schlossberg in the Westendorf district . According to a legend, the surroundings of the house are considered to be the place where the Saxon Duke Heinrich learned during the bird trapping that he was elected German king. Finkenherd 1 is located to the north of the building, and Finkenherd 3 is adjacent to the south . In relation to Finkenherd 1, the southern part of the house bends slightly to the west. All three buildings of the row of houses are under monument protection and are registered in the Quedlinburg monument register.

Architecture and history

The low two-storey half-timbered house was built during the late Gothic period in 1540, possibly coinciding with the north adjacent Finkenherd 1. Other details the time mention 1520 to 1540. other data suggest the period around 1520 to 1540. The building is of a gabled roof covered with the roof protruding far beyond the upper floor. The original roof covering consisted of nun tiles with lime strips . The roof was raised in the Baroque period . The roof was probably built in the 18th century and is designed as a self- supporting rafter roof with a collar beam layer. The rafters are made of softwood worked with a hatchet . The roof space is developed below the collar beam, the undeveloped loft can be seen through a hatch. There is no gable wall of its own towards house Finkenherd 3. The roof also shows the kink that is distinctive for the building. Three half-timbered bundles form the transition to Finkenherd 1. The four south-westwardly shifted bundles represent an almost square part of the building.

The bows of the framework are partly decorated with rosettes , the headbands with notch-cut motifs. The west facade with its row of small windows probably underwent structural changes. Initially, the half-timbered stands there probably extended from the ground floor to the roof. However, when the windows and doors on the ground floor were later changed, the framework was changed. The east facade, on the other hand, is largely unchanged, with continuous uprights connected to one another by bolts.

The house stands on a high sandstone base and has a basement with a flat roof. Inside the building there is a baroque staircase with board balusters on the west side , which leads to the mezzanine floor , which is only 1.26 meters high.

Plans of the building from 1908 have been preserved. Then the entrance led into a large anteroom from which one entered the kitchen. The room was in the southern part of the building.

The master painter Gustav Jentsch lived in the building at least in 1928. The installation of a large shop window has been handed down. The building police viewed the conversion as a disfigurement and had to be dismantled. In 1929 a vending machine for chocolate in the shape of a brooding chicken was allowed after a long argument.

In 1984 the house was repaired. In this heavily weathered from cob existing Gefachefüllungen renewed. Some compartments were lined with bricks of different shapes as early as the 18th and 19th centuries. Together with House Finkenherd 1, the house then served to accommodate administration and study rooms for the Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie located a little further to the west .

literature

• 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 , p. 112.
• 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 46 ff.

Web links

• Information on house Finkenherd 2 at the half-timbered nature trail

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on house Finkenherd 1 on the half-timbered nature trail ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 56
3. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 106

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 13.2 ″  E