Government building (Magdeburg)
The government building was the seat of the governors in Magdeburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It was located in Magdeburg's old town on the northwest corner of the intersection of Gouvernementstraße, today's Gouvernementsberg street with Fürstenwallstraße at Gouvernementstraße 1 . Today (as of 2020) there is a park there.
Architecture and history
Previous building
In the period around 1260 the property was given to the Bishop of Brandenburg by the monastery of Our Dear Women . It was used as a curia and after 1351 came to the Magdeburg Cathedral Chapter . The chapel of St. Georgii was located in the curia. The canon Bertram von Veltheim is the owner of the curia in 1413, then canon Petrus von Werder in 1447, canon Sebastian von Plotho in 1515 and canon von Arnim in 1600. In 1619, the domvogt and secular judge Heinrich von Randow is recorded.
After the extensive destruction of the city in 1631 , which the building had probably survived, the city of Magdeburg rented the property in 1636 from the heirs of von Randow, who died in 1621, and housed the town hall here. In a mention of the property in 1642, however, the building is again referred to as the Randauischer Hof . In 1668 Ernst von Staupitz, who was married to a von Randau, lived here. His heirs then left the property to the cathedral preacher Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser in 1671 . Euphrosyne Elisabeth Leyser, a daughter of Leyser, married the businessman Konrad Siebert, who then owned the property until 1699.
Governor's seat
Colonel and later General Kaspar Friedrich von Lemath bought it for 1200 thalers. At that time, the property comprised a large and a small residential building. Von Lemath built a new building on the property that also included the neighboring properties at Gouvernementstrasse 1b and 2a. Since then, the Lemath family's coat of arms has been on the building. Lemath's widow signed an exchange contract with the Prussian state in 1716. She took over the property at Breiter Weg 204, while the government took over the previous Lemath building. It now served as the seat of the Magdeburg governors, and Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau was the first to move into it .
To the west of the house ran the now no longer preserved northern part of the prince's wall , to which a bridge led from each of the two floors of the house. In 1754 the building was considered dilapidated and a cost estimate for repairs was requested. In 1755 the new governor Ferdinand von Braunschweig received the budget. He had the main house prepared for 6000 thalers and also built the rear building in massive construction.
During the Seven Years' War the Queen of Prussia and her entourage lived in the house. The owner of the house was the Vice-Governor, the Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Kassel. In 1766 Friedrich Christoph von Saldern became governor. Governor von Kalckstein had major repairs carried out on the building in 1798. In 1806 Queen Luise lived in the house.
At least in the 1910s there was military use. The Royal Garrison Command and the office of the 13th Infantry Brigade were set up here. Major General Georg von Schüßler also lived in the house. In the 1930s the house continued to belong to the Prussian state. The building was used to house the structural engineering department, the Prussian state building authority and the regional planning association for the Province of Saxony - Land Anhalt, district office Magdeburg. Two widows lived in the garden house.
The building was destroyed during the Second World War . Part of the site was redesigned as a park.
literature
- Ernst Neubauer, House Book of the City of Magdeburg Part II , Max Niemeyer Verlag Halle (Saale) 1956, page 66 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Magdeburg address book 1914 , Part II, page 52
- ^ Magdeburg address book for the year 1939 , Part II, page 64
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 34.5 " N , 11 ° 38 ′ 15.8" E