Westerhüsen parish hall
The Westerhüsen parish hall is a listed building in Magdeburg 's Westerhüsen district .
Architecture and history
The current building, located directly on the main street with the address Sohlener Straße 1, goes back to a shepherd's and night watchman's house that previously existed in the same place. After a major fire in 1750, the village pastor received a house. The night watchman was also housed here. This original building stretched north / south along the main street. The front of the house, which had two front doors, faced the main street. The front doors were divided into upper and lower doors. At the beginning of the 19th century during the French occupation, a replacement for the dilapidated shepherd's house was planned. Two demolished houses had already been bought in Sudenburg , these were demolished and the building material obtained in this way was laid out. However, due to the difficult financial situation during the occupation, the community could not afford the construction costs of 662 thalers. The last community shepherd was Andreas Holze from Benneckenbeck , who moved into the northern part of the building on April 1, 1848 and lived in the shepherd's and night watchman's house until 1853. Then he bought the farm at the current address Kieler Straße 1 , which was later called the Holzescher Hof . According to Holze, several poor families lived one after the other in the northern part of the building. The building was owned by the community of interested parties . During the separation , ownership passed to the political municipality of Westerhüsen. In 1873 the northern part of the old house burned down. The southern part, inhabited by the community servant Karl Schulze , was already in disrepair and was then torn down.
The new building was built in 1874, according to another statement in 1875, in an east-west direction and served as the parish hall of the village of Westerhüsen, which was later incorporated into Magdeburg in 1910. It had a guard and detention rooms for women and men. There were also single rooms for old people. After a relatively short time, however, the house was only used as a community residence. From 1892 the community servant Emil Gericke lived here , who continued to work for the Magdeburg city administration after the incorporation.
It was built by the master carpenter Schrader in half-timbered construction and using red bricks, but is now plastered. A striking feature of the building is a tower built on the roof with a pointed helmet . Originally there was a clock on the tower. The reason for the tower construction was the fact that the tower of the church of the village, the Sankt-Stephanus-Kirche, was not visible from large parts of the village due to its low height and low location near the bank of the Elbe . A tower clock was therefore erected in a more easily visible central location.
Again, the house initially had two entrance doors, which, however, faced today's Sohlener Strasse. The detention rooms were on the left side of the building with a window facing the hallway and a small barred window facing the courtyard. In 1926 the building got a sewer connection . The prison rooms were removed. Instead of the women's room, two toilets were created. The men's prison was turned into another single room, whereby a front door was dropped and replaced by a window. The single rooms served as a resting place for older people. The house was therefore popularly known as Spittel .
On April 17, 1945, just before the end of World War II , the parish hall was badly damaged by a bomb. The reconstruction was initially carried out by the youth organization Junge Pioniere , who set up a pioneer home here. Due to the bomb damage, however, the tower leaned to one side. The Young Pioneers then had to vacate the house. The tower was then straightened and secured. The western part of the building was probably not rebuilt in the course of the reconstruction, so that the building is now significantly shorter than it was originally. The existing windows in the southern facade of Sohlener Straße are now walled up and have been replaced by two very small windows.
On December 21, 1952, a day care center was established. A small green area with a playground was created in the courtyard. In 1953 the tower received a clock again. The clock also indicated the time by striking a bell and had an illuminated dial.
Today the building is used for residential purposes. The day care center of the district is now on Zackmünder Straße . The tower does not currently have a clock.
literature
- Heinz Gerling : Monuments of the city of Magdeburg. Helmuth-Block-Verlag, Magdeburg 1991, ISBN 3-910173-04-4 , p. 33
- Friedrich Großhennig: Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the city district Magdeburg-SO. Manuscript in the Magdeburg City Archives, signature 80 / 1035n, Part I, page 61 ff.
- The Westerhüser parish hall. In: Municipal newspaper Magdeburg-Westerhüsen. Probably 1930s
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology of Saxony-Anhalt: List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , p. 512 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Großhennig, Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the Magdeburg-SO district , manuscript in the Magdeburg City Archives, signature 80 / 1035n, Part II, page 35
- ↑ List of monuments, Magdeburg, page 512
- ^ The Westerhüser parish hall in the parish journal Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, probably from the 1930s
- ^ The Westerhüser parish hall in the parish journal Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, probably from the 1930s
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 55.4 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 35.1" E