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The Holzerne Klinke house is a listed classical building in Lübeck .
location
The building at Ratzeburger Allee 34 is located 2 kilometers southeast of the city center in Lübeck-St. Jürgen , directly at the crossing of Bundesstrasse 75 and Bundesstrasse 207 .
Origins
The name Holzerne Klinke has been documented since 1651, but presumably much older, and referred to the field name of the property located on the road in the direction of Ratzeburg , which is initially recorded in the documents as a courtyard and since 1768 as a garden. The meaning of the field name is not known; It is assumed that wood referred to a vegetation of bushes or trees, while Klinke possibly comes from the Old High German chlinga , which among other things stands for watercourse . Since the Wakenitz is only 150 meters away in sight, wooded property near a river is a likely interpretation of the name.
Land maps from 1733 and 1757 show the triangular property with a previous building of today's house, about which little is known and whose age and appearance cannot be deduced from any previously known sources. It was the mansion of the property, which was probably furnished in rococo style , as reused parts of the interior in the new building show.
The classicist building
The Holzerne Klinke property changed hands several times in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries. Since the registers that have been preserved are incomplete, it is no longer possible to determine exactly when and by whom the current house was built. Either the widow of the property owner Hermann Friedrich Steinfeld, who died in 1776, Catharina Steinfeld († 1813), who remained in possession of the wooden handle for an undocumented period after the death of her husband, or the businessman Andreas Friedrich Paulsen (* 1746 ; † 1830), who is named in a file from 1807 as the owner of the property. When exactly the change of ownership took place is currently not known. The current building is expressly mentioned for the first time in Paulsen's 1829 will.
The house, built in exposed brick , consists of a simple, two-story, classicist structure with a ground floor and first floor, which at first glance appears cubic , but is actually a cuboid , 14.60 meters wide and 11.60 meters deep. The hipped roof , which has been preserved in its original shape to this day, is about as high as the two floors of the building. The front facade facing Ratzeburger Allee originally had a wide porch, possibly in the form of a glazed wooden veranda . The architect of the structure is unknown, and the exact construction time is also unclear. Two stones in the base area, set into the masonry on the north and south corners, bear the engraved inscriptions Newly built and A ° 1794 . This could be an indication of the construction date; However, in terms of style, the house is more likely to be assigned to the beginning of the 19th century, so that there is no ultimate clarity.
The house and property changed hands several times up to the beginning of the 20th century. The Holzerne Klinke property was parceled out and built on. The manor house (in which Albert Aereboe lived in 1919) passed into the possession of Rudolf Wiswe in 1919, who had extensive renovations carried out, which completely changed the interior. Today the rooms are of high quality, characterized by the style of the early 1920s , nothing of the original classicist furnishings has been preserved. However, the house still has components that were taken over from the otherwise inaccessible previous building: the rococo staircase that led up from the ground floor in the new building was moved to the first floor during the renovation and now leads to the attic . There, boards and beams were reused in the roof structure, which carry remains of old artistic ceiling paintings. The elaborate artistic work suggests that the previous building was a richly furnished mansion. These fragments are also the oldest surviving furnishings in a house in the St. Jürgen district.
The exterior was also affected by the renovations in 1919, but retained its classicist shape. Some window openings were closed, the wide porch was replaced by a narrower, neoclassical style crowned with a balcony, and a rear entrance was added. A winter garden , originally limited to the ground floor and designed as a massive extension, was also added to the north side , which was not extended to the upper floor until the 1970s or 1980s.
Todays use
The building was owned by the Wiswe family until 2001. Rolf Joachim Wiswe (* 1922; † 2001) determined in his will that it should pass into the possession of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities as the Gertrud and Rolf Wiswe Foundation . In 2003 the non-profit organization was able to take over the house and had it renovated while largely preserving the furnishings from 1919. After the work was completed, the non-profit art school moved into the house in 2005 .
literature
- Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology , Volume 84. Max Schmidt-Römhild Verlag, Lübeck 2004.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 6 ″ N , 10 ° 42 ′ 6 ″ E