Goertz Palace

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The Görtz-Palais is an originally Baroque building on Neuer Wall No. 86 in Hamburg's Neustadt district .

After war destruction in 1941 and 1943, the Görtz-Palais was rebuilt by the architect Carl-Friedrich Fischer from 1953 . The baroque facade was restored, but the rear parts of the building were designed in a contemporary way. Otherwise, the reconstruction was carried out in a simplified form. The interior was designed in a modern way, while the layout of the facade was partially simplified.

The original building

Görtz-Palais around 1840

The magnificent three-storey building was designed from 1710 by the Hamburg architect Johannes Nicolaus Kuhn for the envoy of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and Minister Georg Heinrich von Görtz and at that time it was the first and only building on Neuer Wall . With its generous and elegant appearance, the city palace was considered outstanding within Hamburg after its completion, as the previously mundane building stock consisted mainly of modest town houses. The building was executed in its original form with exposed brick, it was not plastered until 1776 and thus received its present appearance.

The Görtz-Palais, which is considered the most important work of the architect Johann-Nikolaus Kuhn, became the model for many other lavish baroque town houses in Hamburg . The building was the first in Hamburg in which Kuhn implemented the Italian motif of the three-aisled entrance hall. The Hamburg contemporaries scoffed at the client Görtz's lack of integrity, saying that “spolia holsatiae” (“looted prey from Holstein”) should actually be above the driveway. Görtz had taken the property from his adversary at the Gottorfer Hof Magnus von Wedderkop without compensation.

architecture

The small baroque palace with Dutch architectural influence is adorned with cornices and Ionic pilasters made of sandstone. The plastered main facade is divided into a three-axis central projection and two-axis projections on the sides. This emphasizes the center of the facade with the arched portal, above which there is a balcony supported by Tuscan columns . A segmented arched gable , which was decorated with figures and symbols before the destruction of the war, serves as the upper end of the central risalit.

Another story

After Görtz was executed in Stockholm in 1719, the house served as the residence of the imperial ambassador to the Hanseatic cities and the Lower Saxony district from 1722 to 1806 . The city made the building available to the emperor after the original legation was looted and burned down by hamburgers. During the French occupation it was used as a Mairie (town hall) from 1811 to 1814 under the then mayor Amandus Augustus Abendroth . From 1814 it was included in the then newly built Stadthaus building complex and thus became the seat of the Hamburg administration and police, whose head was Abendroth. In 1827 the then newly founded Hamburger Sparkasse moved in, with its founding member Abendroth also having a hand in it. In 1926 it was painted yellow and red on the initiative of the chief building director Fritz Schumacher . From 1933, during the National Socialist era , it was also part of the Gestapo headquarters. Their well-known “torture cellars” were located in the neighboring extension of the town hall.

In 1943 the palace was destroyed; only the facade was preserved. From 1955 to 1977, the headquarters of Germanischer Lloyd was located in the rebuilt Görtz-Palais . The palace was used as an office building, which housed a law firm, among other things. The Görtz-Palais is being rebuilt and will be integrated as the oldest house in the Stadthöfe ensemble in 2020. The retail and offices are intended for use.

The building has been a listed building since 1928, which was expanded to include the entire building ensemble of the town hall in 2009.

The Görtz-Palais is opposite the Bürgermeister-Petersen-Platz with the memorial of the former mayor Carl Friedrich Petersen .

literature

Web links

Commons : Görtz-Palais  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ^ Hermann Hipp: On the brick building of the 19th century in: Arno Herzig (editor): Das Alte Hamburg (1500–1848) , Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin + Hamburg, 1989, ISBN 3-496-00948-9 , p. 226
  2. ^ Henning von Rumohr: Palaces and manors in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. Frankfurt am Main 1963. p. 131 ff.
  3. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt on the history of the Palais

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 59.7 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 11.2"  E