Ghellerburg

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Ghellerburg
The location of the Ghellerburg on a map of the city of Braunschweig, 1899. The nearby Alte Waage (center of the map) is marked with "67".
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Brunswick 1899

The Ghellerburg , also Gellerburg or Ghellerborch , in Braunschweig was a half-timbered house built in 1435 in the Weichbild Neustadt , Alte Waage 2, in the vicinity of the Alte Waage .

The six- span building had a mezzanine and an upper floor. It became known through one of the earliest-dated Braunschweig house inscriptions on the sill beam of the upper floor: “ You droch, dit is de Ghellerborch, named after Heren van Gelleren am ek. Ik ruke den braden vaken unheladen. MCCCCXXXV. The high German translation reads: “ You rascal, this is the Ghellerburg, I am named after Mr. von Gheller, I often smell the roast uncharged. 1435. “Next to it was a picture of a lustful-looking human head.

The mockingly coarse inscription was probably alluding to the nearby Neustadt town hall , where the “ kitchen council ” met and made political decisions. The house owner, although a Hans von Geleren can be traced back to the first half of the 15th century, could involuntarily “smell the roast”. A von Ghellern family lived in the Neustadt as early as 1412. Since 1523 the house was called "Nigengelreborch", new Ghellerburg. The building was destroyed during the Second World War.

literature

  • Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories, Volume 1: Innenstadt , Cremlingen 1995
  • Richard Moderhack : Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte , Braunschweig 1997
  • Norman-Mathias Pingel: Ghellerburg , in: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon supplementary volume , edited on behalf of the city of Braunschweig by Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf with substantial assistance from Norman-Mathias Pingel, Braunschweig 1996, p. 51

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Dürre : History of the City of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages , Braunschweig 1861, p. 712
  2. ↑ Historical Association for Lower Saxony (ed.): Archives of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , Hanover 1847, p. 249
  3. ^ Journal for German Education , BG Teubner 1910, p. 633

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 1.6 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 12.3 ″  E