Hainstrasse 8 (Leipzig)

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The baroque bay window on the Renaissance house (2017)

The house at Hainstrasse 8 in Leipzig is a residential and commercial building from the Renaissance period . It is the oldest surviving residential building in the city and is a listed building .

description

The five-story building is five window axes wide. There are business premises on the ground floor, which can be reached through a large arched entrance. The walls of the windows on the floors are made of marbled, painted Rochlitz porphyry and show intersecting rod profiles in their upper half. In front of the second window axis from the left there is a wooden bay window that extends from the first to the third floor . It has a rich stucco decoration with predominantly vegetable motifs and is closed by a round arch. The frontispiece in front of the hipped roof is three windows wide.

The historic cross vault has been preserved on the ground floor . The bay room on the first floor still has stucco from the Baroque period , and on the third floor there is a painted wooden ceiling from the Renaissance.

history

In 1542, the councilor and merchant Anton Lotter (1507–1583), the brother of the later mayor of Leipzig Hieronymus Lotter (1497–1580), from Nuremberg , bought a house in Hainstrasse for 850 thalers . It must have been rebuilt soon - it is suspected by Hieronymus Lotter - because when it was sold again in 1575 it was almost four times the price. It was initially four-story with a gable roof and the bar profiles typical of the Renaissance on the window walls made of Rochlitz porphyry.

In 1703 it received the initially two-storey baroque box oriel. Although various trades were involved, it is mainly attributed to the sculptor Johann Jacob Löbelt (1652–1709). The window frames were painted over with marble. In 1711 the house and bay window were each increased by one storey and the frontispiece was erected.

The house around 1910

From 1768 to 1771, the future Russian writer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Radishchev (1749–1802) lived with other Russian fellow students in this house during his Leipzig studies . From the middle of the 19th century there was a bakery on the ground floor. The Goldschmidt family took over the same from its predecessor Mühlberg in the 20th century. At the end of the 1950s, the owner Helene ("Lenchen") Goldschmidt, who was considered the Leipzig original , fought for a conversion permit. She only received this when, at a chance encounter in front of her shop , she reminded Walter Ulbricht (1893–1973) that his father had sewn a suit for her son.

In the early 1990s the house was on the verge of decay, especially when the neighboring house collapsed and the side and back buildings of No. 8 were damaged. A new owner (Lang Projektentwicklung GmbH) undertook the complex, thorough renovation from 1996 to 2000. The design of the facade of the ground floor, which now houses an optician, was based on that of the 16th century (round arches).

literature

Web links

Commons : Hainstraße 8  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Leipzig center (ID 09298294)
  2. ↑ Gäbler Genealogy. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ BL: Additional part of the article: House with guardian . In: Leipziger Blätter . No. 36 , 2000, pp. 50 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 31 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 26 ″  E