Vault (Wismar)
Vault is the name of a listed half-timbered house in the round pit 4 in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is located in close proximity to the old port.
Building description
The house is a two-storey half-timbered building with two bay windows each on the west side facing the harbor and the east side. It stands on two barrel-vaulted bridge yokes that give it its name . The round pit flows under the building and shortly afterwards flows into the old port. Immediately to the west of the vault, the street Am Hafen bridges the pit.
history
The building, which was originally included in the course of the city fortifications, was erected in the middle of the 17th century and already had a similar predecessor from around 1400. Structurally, it was extensively changed in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was owned by the city of Wismar until 1823. The heads of the Ratskeller, the so-called wine lords, checked the quality of the wines delivered to the port in the 17th and 18th centuries before they reached the town hall. Later beer was served in the vault by tenants. The use of the house changed when J. Wesenberg moved his fish and eel smokehouse here in 1864. The actual smokehouse, a three-storey brick building from the 19th century, was on the south side of the vault, but was demolished in 2000 due to its disrepair. During city fires, the drainage of the pit into the harbor basin used to be blocked so that water could be dammed up to extinguish the fire. This was done through iron gates that were brought in from the municipal building yard.
At the turn of the millennium, the shop on the ground floor was modernized and the northern gable was given a neo-Gothic shop window design. During the renovation and reconstruction in 2003, the original facades were restored and the plaster on the west side was also removed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Monument List (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de, p. 469 (PDF; 956 kB)
- ↑ a b Christel Kindler, Arthur Eulert: The pit in Wismar for connoisseurs. Streifzüge , Weiland, Wismar 2004
- ^ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Mecklenburg coastal region , Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1990, p. 174
- ↑ House biography of the round pit 4 ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2007 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.
Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 42.8 " N , 11 ° 27 ′ 37.6" E