Gallows house
The Galgenhaus , also known as Palais Happe , at Brüderstraße 10 in the Berlin district of Mitte , is - like the Nicolaihaus two houses down - one of the few surviving Berlin town houses, whose origins date back to the 17th century and which are under monument protection . The residential and official building was completed in 1688. The building owner and first resident of the house was probably Chamber Councilor Wilhelm Heinrich von Happe (1625–1700, ennobled in 1695). Even Heinrich Philipp von Happe called as a builder.
history
According to legend, a maid was hanged in front of the gallows house in 1735 for stealing a silver spoon. The house thefts in Berlin had increased so much that the king gave the harsh order that the first person to be guilty of this crime again should be hung on the gallows in front of the house in which he had committed the theft. After her death, her innocence is said to have been found.
The Galgenhaus is a five-axis, three-storey building, the facade of which is plastered and which was redesigned in the classical style in 1805 . The wooden staircase, one of the few preserved in Berlin, dates from the first construction period in the Baroque era . The symmetrical construction is emphasized by a round arched passage portal.
The white stucco ceiling in one of the ground floor rooms is worth seeing ; it is formed by a barrel arch with stitch caps and is richly decorated with putti and floral tendrils as well as a ceiling painting. The facade, which was badly damaged in the Second World War , was restored in 1963/1964 and restored between 1982 and 1984.
From 1737 to 1945 the house served as the provost's office for the parish church of Cölln , the Petrikirche , which is no longer in existence today . A prominent resident of the house was the evangelical clergyman and scholar Johann Peter Süßmilch . He was provost at the Petrikirche and became a pioneer of statistics in Germany through his main scientific work . A Berlin plaque on the facade commemorates him. From 1876 to 1906 the theologian , church politician and provost of St. Petri Hermann Freiherr von der Goltz lived in this house .
Until 2011, the Galgenhaus housed the city museum's photographic collection on Berlin topography, with a focus on the period from 1880 to 1910, as well as the document collection.
In 2012, the Kewenig Galerie, founded in Cologne in 1986, acquired the building. After a renovation according to the monument, the gallery in Palais Happe has resumed its exhibition program, which is dedicated to conceptual art , minimalism and Arte Povera , since September 2013 . In the future, part of the archive of the French artist Christian Boltanski will also find long-term accommodation here.
See also
literature
- The architectural and artistic monuments in the GDR capital Berlin I . Pp. 81–86, Ed. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Galgenhaus on the website of the Stadtmuseum Berlin
- Gallery Kewenig has a website with interior photos of the exhibition rooms for the various exhibitions
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Nicolai: Description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam ... , edition of 1786 ", p. 132
- ↑ From Berlin homeland books . Berlin legends and memories. Collected by Otto Monke. Source and Meyer publishing house in Leipzig, 1926
- ↑ Kewenig leaves Cologne . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 24, 2012, accessed on December 1, 2014.
- ↑ Tim Ackermann: Berlin, you can be so attractive . In: Die Welt , December 9, 2012, accessed December 1, 2014.
- ^ Birgit Sonna: Art in the Galgenhaus . ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Art-Magazin.de , September 18, 2014, accessed on December 1, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 9 ″ E