Gadenstedt's house

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Gadenstedt's house

The Gadenstedtsche Haus is a listed building in the city center of Wernigerode in the Harz district . It is located at Oberpfarrkirchhof 13 in one of the oldest settlement areas in the city. The aristocratic Fronhof and the knight's courts were located here.

history

At the location of the current building was a Niederungsburg, first mentioned in 1265 as Snakenburg (or Schnakenburg ) . The last remains of the castle were demolished in 1805.

The eastern part of today's house is the oldest; it dates from around 1480 with its massive basement made of Rogenstein. In 1543, the Count of Stolberg Castle, Dietrich von Gadenstedt, bought the building and used it for residential purposes. In 1573 he built a stately courtyard around the building, which was again called Schnakenburg . In 1582 he had the house expanded, expanded with a half-timbered tower , embellished it and added the protruding Renaissance bay window with a pointed roof to the house. The parapet fields adorned with notch-cut ornaments and the slug glass windows secured with typical resin sliding windows still determine the charm of the facade today. Dietrich von Gadenstedt died in 1586.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the building began to fall into disrepair, and in 1883 the demolition of the house was even planned. Only the intervention of the state conservator prevented this. Eduard Jacobs described the condition of the house in 1885:

“House No. 13 on the Oberpfarrkirchhof, built in 1582 by the old captain Dietrich von Gadenstedt, makes a picturesque, admittedly very dilapidated impression. Above a solid cellar and basement of rubble stones rises a half-timbered tower with a protruding bay window supported by three head ties. The wood carvings on it are quite carefully executed geometrical figures and circles. The partially destroyed inscription runs around the edge: ICH WEIS (DAS MEIN) ERLÖSER ... LIVT ... 1582. Through this house the builder had his way to the Oberfarrkirche from his larger house, the Schnakenburg, which has no longer been preserved in its old form . "

- Eduard Jacobs, 1885

In 1891 the parish of St. Sylvestri took over the building and renovated it with community and donation funds. For this, designs by the palace builder Carl Frühling were used. The ailing western part of the building was partially demolished and was rebuilt in the historical style. The parish then used this part as a kindergarten and community hall. It still serves as the parish hall today.

The sandstone lintel bears the inscription Haus Gadenstedt . The Bible saying stands on the bay window: I know that my Redeemer lives. ANO DNI 1582 (Job 19:25). In the two lintels to the right of the bay window, let the children come to me and do not stop them. Marc 10.14 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Gadenstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Norbert Eisold, Edeltraut Lausch: Du-Mont art travel guide . Saxony-Anhalt. Du-Mont Buchverlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7701-2590-8 , Wernigerode, p. 235 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Hermann D. Oemler : Wernigerode (time leaps) . Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-849-2 , p. 26 .
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Sternal, Wolfgang Braun: Castles and palaces of the Harz region . tape 2 . BoD, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8423-7730-1 , pp. 111 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Josef Walz: Der Harz , DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 1993, ISBN 978-3-7701-2668-2 , p. 193.
  4. ↑ Eduard Jacobs : Overview of the history u. Monuments of Wernigerode and the surrounding area . 1885, p. 46 ( online ).
  5. ^ Haus Gadenstedt - the parish hall of the parish. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 54.4 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 2 ″  E