Hans Reule

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House Mühlenstrasse 22

Hans Reule (born November 3, 1642 in the old town of Quedlinburg ; † October 1, 1693 in the new town of Quedlinburg) was a German carpenter and architect. Several half-timbered houses he created are now listed and are a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The spellings Rühle , Rule and Ruhle are also used for the surname .

Life

Hans Reule was born as the son of the Quedlinburg master carpenter Heinrich Reule . His siblings also included Andreas Rühle and Gabriel Rühle , who were also known as master carpenters . On November 6, 1666, he married 18-year-old Maria Rohrs. The marriage resulted in 4 daughters and three sons between 1667 and 1679. At the age of 28 he built the building Kaplanei 6 as his first house . Between 1670 and 1680 he built at least nine houses in Quedlinburg, including in 1671 today's hotel "Zur Goldenen Sonne" . His buildings were above average representative. As a design element, he used parapet struts on the first floor and diamond crosses on the second floor. He did without the figure of the half man and St. Andrew's cross . The last building in 1680 was Mühlenstraße 22 , which he built for himself. His wife died on August 21, 1685. Reule then married Catharina Maria Walburg on May 11, 1686.

buildings

literature

  • Wolfgang Hoffmann: Quedlinburg. The city guide , Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode, 13th edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-928977-19-7 , page 45 f.
  • Hans-Hartmut Schauer, The urban monument of Quedlinburg and its half-timbered buildings , Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00233-7 , pages 71, 84

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 753
personal data
SURNAME Reule, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rühle, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master carpenter and architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg old town
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1693
Place of death Quedlinburg old town