Fregehaus

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The street facade of the Fregehaus 2006

The Fregehaus is a baroque merchant's house in the center of Leipzig .

The merchant Gottfried Otto bought the property in today's Katharinenstrasse 11 in 1705 and had the renaissance house located there (probably built in 1535) rebuilt in the baroque style by the Leipzig councilor mason Johann Gregor Fuchs in the years 1706 to 1707 .

The building, which consists of four wings, is laid out around a right-angled inner courtyard. The symmetrical main facade is marked by a box oriel decorated with fruit garlands . 16 dormers sit in four rows on the steep roof with a slope of 62 degrees . The preserved parts of the previous building include the cross vault of the courtyard entrance and portals on the ground floor.

The Fregehaus owes its current name to the banker Christian Gottlob Frege II (1747–1816), who bought it in 1782. It remained the seat of the private bank until 1945 and a trading company (with state participation) of the Frege family until 1976. From 1978 the Fregehaus was the seat of VEB Leipziger Denkmalpflege, which renovated the house from 1980 to 1986.

The descendants of the family include the 2nd cousin 3 × away from Christian Gottlob Frege II , the first President of the Federal Administrative Court Ludwig Frege and his grandson Andreas Frege as Campino , singer and front man of the German music group Die Toten Hosen .

From 1998 to March 2014, the non-profit association “Europahaus Leipzig e. V. “the building that now houses a hotel and a shop. The inner courtyard is freely accessible.

  • The Fregehaus around 1880

  • Mock image of Pope, Emperor and Luther in the inner courtyard,
    from 1535

  • Street-side main portal from the Renaissance (around 1535)

  • Renaissance cross vaults in the entrance to the courtyard

  • The baroque courtyard of the Fregehaus 2016

  • The Fregehaus on a postage stamp from 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holdings 21021 Frege & Co., Handels- und Bankhaus, Leipzig in the Leipzig State Archives
  2. ^ Family tree in: Gottlob Frege Life-Work-Time; Lothar Kreiser, Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, 2001

Web links

Commons : Fregehaus  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 31 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 29 ″  E