House Kirchplatz 16/18 (Bad Laasphe)
The House Church Square 16/18 is: (Wallstr 16/18 too.) One since 1987 under monument protection standing half-timbered house in the historic town of Bad Laasphe which in 1687 as a replacement building after the fire on May 22, 1683 as a community center was built in the Baroque period. Two half-timbered floors rise above a stone basement. From the beginning it was laid out as a semi-detached house, whose ridge line separated the two owners.
Owner story
The first known owner of the entire parcel was the Krämer and Laaspher citizen Kraft (Crato) Keller junior, called Hülscher, who is mentioned here for the first time in 1606 and presumably lived here until his death around 1640. His widow Gottliebe geb. Danzenbächer will have lived here until her death around 1644. At that time there was a house for a family here. The next resident was Ebert Langenbach until 1673, who was related to the Keller family through his second wife Enchen Gottschalk, the widow of Johannes Keller. He was mayor of Laasphe in 1643, 1650 and 1664 and died in 1673.
In the late phase of the Thirty Years' War , in 1645, almost all of the town's residents were robbed by a unit of soldiers passing through. An official protocol was drawn up about the process, in which Ebert Langenbach's losses are listed under number 50.
Ebert Langenbach was stolen from his house: 3 cows, 1 stalking rifle (hunting rifle), 1 silver spoon, 80 coarse linen cloth , 16 ells small pure linen cloth , 2 ruffled blankets , 1 man's coat , a dewlap for the woman , 1 tufted apron , 1 new apron from Grün Raß , 3 lilies , 1 baptismal diaper, 5 kisses (pillow cases ), all kinds of small linen wall collars , hats , women's bonnets , 1 copper kettle , meat, blue cloth 1½ cubits, boiled butter, fresh butter, 8 large cheeses, 3½ Mesten (measure of capacity, 1 st about 26 liters) of flour and a total of 98 Reichstaler and 2½ head pieces.
In 1673 the property was returned to a member of the Keller family. The master shoemaker Johann Jost Keller, born in 1631, probably a grandson of Crato Keller, was the son of Ennchen Gottschalk (widow of Ebert Langenbach), who now lived in the house with her son. Johann Jost Keller had married the pastor's daughter Agnes Mengel as early as 1659, a distant relative who died in the house in 1678 and left Keller as a widower with his mother and four children.
It is not entirely clear when the property was converted into a semi-detached house. Even before the fire in May 1683, two families were named here in a list of residents dated November 7, 1682: On the one hand Johann Jost Keller, 4 children, his mother Ennchen Gottschalk widowed Langenbach, and on the other hand Corporal Fischer with 1 maid and 1 child and an assessor (tenant). Keller's mother died soon afterwards in February 1683.
With this occupation, the house burned down in May 1683 and was most likely rebuilt in the summer of 1687 using older timbers from around 1506. Its current stone basement was designed from the start for a partition wall under the ridge line. There is a lot to suggest that the stone basement was also rebuilt in 1687 in order to convert the common apartment of two families into a permanent constructive solution before the fire.
Johann Jost Keller then lived in the southern half (today Kirchplatz 16) of the new building as a widower with his four surviving children and died here in 1706. Then half of the house was taken over by his son Franz Wilhelm Keller (1674 - 1726), who also worked as a shoemaker. He was married twice and had two surviving children. After his father's death in 1726, their son, the Rügen master Johannes (1706 - 1768), took over the property, but he passed it on to Jakob Zode before his death in 1765 in 1759. After only three years, Zode and his widow Klara Luise, née. Fischer lived in the house until 1795, initially with their two underage children Konrad and Jakob. Jakob founded his own household with Anna Elisabeth Benfer in his mother's house, but he died young, so that two widows lived in the house. Only Anna Elisabeth's third husband, Henrich Koch, lived longer in the house until 1827. Anna Elisabeth died in 1830.
The northern half of the house (Kirchplatz 18) has been inhabited since the reconstruction in 1687 by the named Lorenz Fischer, who was then referred to as the “ corporal among the Union peoples”. On November 28, 1683, shortly after the fire, he married Anna Katharina Vietor in Laasphe, who died in 1696. It is not known where he lived between the fire and the reconstruction between 1683 and 1687. Little is known about another woman Ariane, whom he married in Feudingen in 1697 . With Anna Katharina he had eight children, four of whom survived childhood. It is unclear what happened to the child already mentioned in the 1682 list. Perhaps it wasn't a real child of the corporal.
Half of the house was inherited by his son Wilhelm in 1707, who worked here as a hatter until 1742. Then there is his son Georg, also a hatter (and common man for the district). Konrad Schuchard bought the house around 1756, when he moved to Laasphe and worked as a court tailor, but died in 1759. He was followed by his son-in-law, the tailor Friedrich Feuring, who married Schuchard's daughter Henriette in 1745 and died in 1805. The house then passed into the hands of his son Christian Feuring, who set up a blacksmith's shop here. He is proven in 1812 as a parishioner for the district and in 1835 as a district head. He died in 1861. Christian Schmidt (mentioned in 1871) and Adolf Klein (1877) followed.
It is not known whether they continued the forge in the house at Kirchplatz 18. Around 1900 Karl Heinrich Lettermann (1846–1913) ran a forge here again.
Dating
In 2019, a structurally important oak beam of the western gable was examined dendrochronologically , and the felling of the tree in the winter of 1686/87 was determined. In view of the great need for wood after the fire in 1683, the house was almost certainly pitched in the summer of 1687. Older calibration beams were also reused. A beam in the partition wall between the two semi-detached houses dates from around 1499. It is probably wood that was felled for the reconstruction of Laasphe after the great fire in 1506.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the ownership structure: Jochen Karl Mehldau : Old Laaspher families and their houses. House chronicles ~ 1600 - 1875. Bad Laasphe 2013, pp. 276–278. On the family relationships in the cellar there, pp. 118-119.
- ↑ Mehldau 2013, p. 129.
- ↑ Princely Archives of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (WA), M 34
- ↑ Mehldau 2013, p. 119.
- ↑ Mehldau 2013, p. 68.
- ↑ Expert opinion from the office of Hans Tisje from October 15, 2019 with an explanation by Bernhard Flights. Then the last grown annual ring from 1687 can be seen. But it is only a sample.
- ↑ Opinion of the offices Hans Tisje from 10/15/2019
Web links
- Monument of the Month - February 2008. In: Working Group on Historic Town Centers in North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved August 13, 2014 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '36.31 " N , 8 ° 24' 40.72" O