Garßenhof
The Garßenhof is the residential building of a former farm in Salzgitter-Grid . It was built in 1557 and, after the Kniestedter manor house, is the second oldest half-timbered building still preserved in the area of the city of Salzgitter . From 1980 the Garßenhof was moved to Salzgitter-Bad and is now located between the Ratskeller and the Kniestedter manor house.
The grounds of the Garßenhof, often also referred to as the "Ritterhof", lay between today's streets Am Ritterhof , Friedhofsweg and Garßenhof . Construction of the courtyard, named after its later owners, the Garßen family , began in 1557. The residential building, the oldest part of the building, now in the east, was built in an almost square shape over an old vaulted cellar, probably the remains of an earlier residential complex. It was a two-storey half - timbered construction , the compartments were mostly filled with wood mesh and clay plaster, partly with hand-formed clay bricks. The client was Ackermann Lüdeke Dedeke . The slogan in the threshold of the upper floor reads “Whoever trusts God / has bawet well / The one where the Lord does not bawet the house / So they bawen work for free. BEATI OMNES / QUI CONFIDENT IN EO “ ( Eng . All the lucky ones who profess him ).
Between 1597 and 1602 the Liebenburg bailiff Peter Drögemüller was named as the owner. In 1616, the lawyer Ludolph Garßen was the first to be listed as a member of the Garßen family as the new owner, until 1881 the farm remained in the possession of this family. During the Thirty Years' War the courtyard was badly damaged and was only expanded after 1700: the house was extended and a two-storey porter's house was built at the entrance, to which several stables were attached. A sandstone wall separated the courtyard from the street, which was accessed through a portal next to the gatehouse. A fire insurance register from 1766 lists the buildings that belonged to Garßenhof at that time: a residential building; a barn with a wagon shower; next to the gate there is a barn with a stable, a stable, a pigsty, a sheepfold, a goose stable and a wood shower; Another sheepfold with a coach showers, a chicken house and a building and baking house.
In a major fire in 1857 that destroyed the northwestern part of the village of grid, the Garßenhof was also affected and lost part of the farm buildings. In 1881 the Garßen family then sold the farm. In 1934 the building was converted into a residential building. The entrance gate to the Garßenhof was moved to today's Vöppstedter Friedhof in Salzgitter-Bad in 1941 , as it threatened to collapse due to the increasing traffic caused by the construction of the Hermann Göring Reichswerke . After the war the yard fell into disrepair, the porter's house was demolished in 1958, the wall on the street in 1963 and the house had been empty since 1977.
In March 1979, the council of the city of Salzgitter, which had since taken over ownership of the Garßenhof, decided to dismantle the residential building and move it to Salzgitter-Bad. There it was rebuilt next to the historic Ratskeller on the edge of today's rose garden until 1982 and, together with the Kniestedter manor house, the Tilly house and the graduation pavilion, forms the “traditional island” of Salzgitter-Bad.
literature
- Jörg Leuschner and Curt Müller: Grid. Twelve centuries of history . Ed .: Stadtarchiv Salzgitter and village community grid. Archive of the City of Salzgitter, Salzgitter 1996, ISBN 3-930292-01-7 , Der Garßenhof, p. 330–339 ( contributions to city history 12).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 48.2 ″ N , 10 ° 22 ′ 15 ″ E