House Hövener
The house Hövener is a Grade II listed house on the market 14 in Brilon , today the City Museum in the Museum Haus Hövener located. The house is in a central location opposite the historic town hall and the Petrusbrunnen .
History and architecture
history
In the late Middle Ages there was a hospice for the Holy Spirit on the site of the current house . It was destroyed by a city fire in 1742. The property initially remained undeveloped for 60 years. At this point the two main roads in Brilon crossed.
As the city's poor system was reorganized, the property was for sale. The merchant Caspar Krüper bought the fallow property in 1802 and built the two-storey villa from 1803 to 1804 in the exposed location directly on the market in the immediate vicinity of the town hall . The house was supplemented by a coach house and a garden. The businessman Krüger ran a shop on the ground floor. The stored goods could be brought into the shop through a hatch near the entrance. The business premises were divided into two areas; In the so-called goods room, which was equipped with a stucco ceiling and where the hatch described above was located, the goods were offered for sale and in the customer room the ceiling was decorated with an oval painting depicting a wreath of oak leaves. The name of the old shop has been handed down in old documents . Until it was relocated to Eslohe in 1811, the mining office had been housed in some rooms since around 1803 . Economic reasons forced Caspar Krüper to sell to the Unkraut family in 1815, the immediate ancestors of Wilhelmine Hövener . At that time, the house was considered the most representative and modern residential building in the city. In 1815 the house was acquired by the trade wife Charlotte Catharina Unkraut, a matriarch . She was the widow of Johann Heinrich Weed . The Olsberger Hütte owed its continued existence to its farsighted management; after more than 500 years, it is now the oldest family-owned company in the Sauerland and Ruhr area. This family was involved in iron mining and metallurgy. Charlotte Catharina Unkraut had extensive renovation and beautification work carried out. She had the financial means and accordingly high demands. For example, a document from 1816 has survived, according to which purchases were made from one of the most important paper wallpaper manufacturers of the 19th century, Johann Christian Arnold, in Kassel. Charlotte Catharina Unkraut died in 1839, the house was passed on to her son Richard Unkraut, who passed it on to his son Anton Unkraut in 1868. The daughter Antonie Hövener, b. Weeds inherited the property in 1909. Each generation carried out more or less extensive renovations. In 1910, the Hövener family swapped the working and guest floor with the living floor. The kitchen and bathroom have also been fitted out. In order to adequately develop the living rooms on the upper floor, the master carpenter Schmidt from Stadtberge installed a staircase that has been preserved to this day. Remnants of the original, classicist complex can be seen on the second half-floor. The coach house next to the house was converted into living and working rooms and connected with a connecting passage. The various uses and the renovation phases are well documented through the findings of the art historian Christoph Hellbrügge's investigations in 2002 and the renovation plans and estate registers that have been preserved. Two rooms on the first floor were used as guest rooms with sleeping rooms during the time of Charlotte Catharina Unkraut ; Bishop Richard Dammers, a relative of the family, stayed here frequently. From 1910 on, Antonie Hövener and her daughter Wilhelmine used these two rooms as bedrooms. Wilhelmine Hövener had set up a reception room for guests on the first floor, halfway up the stairs . The former director of studies welcomed her visitors here, and she almost never allowed access to her living area.
architecture
The city palace is a slate half-timbered building that stands on a massive base with vaulted cellars. The main entrance of the building is on the corner of the house and has a classicistic front door with a round-arched skylight , in which there is a coat of arms with the mining symbols Wappen and Schlegel. The portal is decorated with pilasters and festoons . The building used to be accessed by a flight of steps, which was demolished in 1975. There are rectangular windows in the facade at regular intervals. A two-storey mansard roof with dormer windows forms the end of the building . According to information from an insurance policy that has been handed down from 1841, the building was not yet covered up in the first decades of its existence. It was reported of a house on the market, built of stone with an adobe framework, with a slate roof and a massive chimney . The oldest surviving view of the house is a drawing by A. Florin, on this view the house was shown with complete slab.
Foundation, endowment
The last member of this family was Wilhelmine Hövener, the director of studies and founder of the Briloner Eisenberg and Trades Foundation - Brilon City Museum , who lived in the house until her death at the age of 93. The Westphalian open-air museum in Detmold launched an appeal in 1994 in the Westfalenpost to find objects for the establishment of a Sauerland village. Hövener answered that she might have something useful to deliver. Someone might come over sometime. In the house there was a self-contained stock for the Westphalian area, which was preserved by the upper-class family without major losses until the death of the Hövener. This included glass, porcelain, household items, an archive on the economy and the family and an ancestral gallery. Previously unknown findings on the history of smelting and mining in the region were obtained from the economic archive.
Wilhelmine Hövener made her house and the valuable inventory accessible to the public with a donation, which also included the building, to the LWL open-air museum in Detmold (1994) and with the establishment of the “Briloner Eisenberg and Trades - City Museum Brilon” foundation (1996) . The Hövener Museum , which opened in 2011, was then set up in the house .
Views
Rear view
Basement entrance
Grave cross for Wilhelmine Hövener
Listed garden
literature
- Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
- Sabine Volmer and the architects Lohmann and von Rosenberg Museum concept Haus Hövener Foundation Brilon Eisenberg and Trades City Museum Brilon , 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reference to the museum ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , page 197
- ↑ Hospital of the Holy Spirit ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sale by the Poor Fund ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sabine Volmer and the architects Lohmann and von Rosenberg Museum Concept Haus Hövener Foundation Briloner Eisenberg and Trades City Museum Brilon , 2006 page 5
- ↑ Sabine Volmer and the architects Lohmann and von Rosenberg museum concept Haus Hövener Foundation Briloner Eisenberg and Trades City Museum Brilon , 2006 pages 5 and 6
- ↑ Westfalenpost, Whitsun 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 498 kB)
- ↑ Sabine Volmer and the architects Lohmann and von Rosenberg Museum Concept Haus Hövener Foundation Briloner Eisenberg and Trades City Museum Brilon , 2006 page 8.
- ↑ Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , page 197
- ^ German Foundation for Monument Protection: House Hövener is officially opened as a city museum
- ↑ Sabine Volmer and the architects Lohmann and von Rosenberg museum concept Haus Hövener Foundation Briloner Eisenberg and Trades City Museum Brilon , 2006 page 1
- ↑ Donation ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 45 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 6 ″ E