Godens house
The Gödenser Haus is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the seaport town of Emden in East Frisia . The two-storey brick house in the fat layer system with a younger half-hip roof was built in 1551. On the courtyard side there is a sandstone portal, marked 1619, with fittings . After several conversions, it has been used as a student residence since 1987. It is located on the Roten Siel , an extension of the Faldern Delta and thus the Emden harbor , in the Groß-Faldern district .
The Gödens house in Emden was built in 1551 by Hebrich von Inn- und Kniphausen , the widow of chief Haro von Oldersum and Gödens , as a town house for the owners of the glory of Gödens . In 1619 it was restored by Haro von Frydag zu Gödens and his second wife Elisabeth von Haren and provided with a sandstone portal on the courtyard side. In 1637 Johann Wilhelm von Frydag , a son from this marriage, inherited the building, whose heirs sold it to their cousin Franz Heinrich von Frydag zu Gödens in 1689 . He had it thoroughly renovated from February 1693 to May 1695. After his death on January 1, 1694, his wife Sophie Elisabeth von Aldenburg lived here , who was the guardian of her son Burchard Philipp . After his death in 1746 Anton Franz von Wedel inherited the glory of Gödens and the Gödens house in Emden, which he sold in 1778 to the Royal Prussian East Frisian Chamber of War and Domain . Until 1850 it was a prison, then the seat of the local court. In 1912 the city of Emden acquired the building and used it as a calibration office and for private apartments. After the war, refugees came to live here and the house deteriorated until it was restored in an exemplary manner in 1987 and turned into a student residence.
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 2.3 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 51.9" E