Hanstein House

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House Hanstein in the Aurich pedestrian zone, Burgstrasse 33 (September 2015).

The house Hanstein in the East Frisian district town of Aurich ( district of Aurich , Lower Saxony ) is an under monument protection standing building from the 17th century. It has the address Burgstrasse 33 and is the oldest surviving house in the city. It is named after its owner for many years.

description

The Hanstein house is a two-story brick house. At its core it is a medieval brick house. The graceful curved baroque gable was added at the end of the 17th century. The windows are decorated with festons (stylized flower threads).

history

The Hanstein House was the city's first court house, known as the Snappe . According to tradition, the bailiff's apartment was downstairs in the house and the prisons in the front of today's Burgstrasse. According to Tileman Dothias Wiarda , a locking bolt was found around 1700. The grating of the basement windows still existing today speaks in favor of this thesis. According to Wiarda, this courthouse was "later" relocated to the so-called Harlingsche Huas to the right of the old chancellery , where a relief representation of Justitia with the year 1568 can still be found today.

According to the East Frisian historian Eggerik Beninga , the chiefs Folkmar Allena and Ocko I. tom Brok met in the house in 1391 for negotiations. So the house was a hostel at the time. Alena besieged Ocko at his time at his Aurich castle . The conversation was fruitless. Despite being granted safe conduct, Ocko was murdered by his opponents either while he was still in the house or on the way to his castle.

Around 1700 the Aurich councilor Coop Broyels had the building rebuilt and fitted with a baroque gable in front. In 1767 the councilor Matthias von Wicht lived in the house. He was followed by Dr. Franzius as well as various government officials such as Kettler and Homfeld. Around 1800 it was owned by Homfeld's heirs.

According to the East Frisian local historian Otto Galama Houtrouw (1838–1933), the gable once contained a representation of Justitia with scales and sword and the year 1558. Around 1850, the house indicated both of them, based on a drawing by the local painter named Maurer Sides and over the windows of the first floor Festons. In the years after 1850 the building was plastered. In 1957, the original view of the gable was finally restored.

There are currently business premises on the ground floor. There are apartments on the floors above.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aurich.de: Sights ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2014 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. . Retrieved October 14, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aurich.de
  2. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . Verlag Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, Bonn 2010. S. 208f.
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony . German art publisher; Edition: revision, greatly expanded edition. Munich, Berlin (January 1, 1992), ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 146
  4. ↑ a b c d Hinrich Schoolmann: Our dear little town - A walk through the old Aurich , Verlag AHF Dunkmann KG, Aurich 1975, DNB 780061063 . P. 17
  5. ↑ See also: Tileman Dothias Wiarda: Ostfriesische Geschichte . Volume 1 (until 1441). P. 336 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Tileman Dothias Wiarda: Ostfriesische Geschichte . Volume 1 (until 1441). P. 336 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ goruma.de: Aurich: Sights . Retrieved October 14, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 9.5 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 47.2"  E