Friedrichstrasse 60 (Wernigerode)

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The house at Friedrichstrasse 60 was a listed building in the Hasserode district of Wernigerode , Harz district , in Saxony-Anhalt . It was the former school of the municipality of Hasserode-Friedrichsthal. The building was demolished around 2010 due to its dilapidation.

location

The building at Friedrichstrasse 60 was on the south side of the Friedrichstrasse leading through Hasserode , not far from the Christ Church.

Architecture and history

It was a three-story house in a simple, functional half-timbered style.

It is thanks to the poet Leopold Friedrich Günther von Goeckingk (1748-1828) that the colonist village of Hasserode-Friedrichsthal got its own school building. Goeckingk was appointed to Wernigerode in 1788 as a Prussian war, tax and district administrator. The police, trade and commerce as well as road and house construction were under his supervision. He himself lived in the building of today's Robert Koch Institute , Burgstrasse 37, until he got a lucrative job in Berlin and left Wernigerode in June 1793.

Even if there is hardly anything reminiscent of Goeckingk in today's Wernigerode, it has left lasting traces here. One of them is the first school building in Hasserode, which the students were allowed to move into in 1791 after having previously been taught in a narrow room in the parish on the corner of today's Lutherstrasse. In a letter to the Prussian king and his war and domain chamber, he wrote in 1790:

The number of children in Friedrichsthal has increased so much that 67 children are currently attending morning school at once. In the confined space, as I have seen myself, they sit much too tightly pressed together so that they can hardly lift their arms while writing, and there is not enough space left for the preacher to move between the benches to be able to. The current schoolroom is also in the position that a train cannot be properly attached, hence the vapors, to the disadvantage of the teacher and the children, accumulate too much. The staves could only be enlarged if the adjoining chamber were added, but since the preacher only has one chamber, he cannot do without it, because otherwise there would be no place to sleep in the house, besides his apartment is so narrow in itself that it must have its wood and its waves on the church floor. At that time, he suggested buying one of the colonists' houses on Friedrichstrasse and building a completely spacious school room in it.

The general directorate in Berlin gave the corresponding approval, which in early 1791 in Wernigerode. Goeckingk had previously successfully negotiated the house purchase with the homeowner. Since then, today's Hasserode has had its own school building, which was demolished after more than 200 years due to disrepair at the beginning of the 21st century.

In the local monument register , the house is still listed as a monument under registration number 094 03327 in the Friedrichstraße monument area.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf