House Munsterberg

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House Munsterberg
Detmold - 082 - Hornsche Strasse 38.jpg
Data
place Detmold
Construction year 1840
Coordinates 51 ° 55 '54 "  N , 8 ° 52' 51.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '54 "  N , 8 ° 52' 51.1"  E

The so-called Haus Münsterberg on Hornschen Strasse is a listed building in Detmold in the Lippe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

history

The building was built in 1840 for the councilor and painter Johann Spieß. The construction officer Ferdinand Ludwig Merckel is believed to be the planner . In 1862 Spieß sold the house to the architect Barkhausen, and in 1886 it was finally acquired by the art collector and merchant Oskar Münsterberg (1865–1920) from Gdansk, who at that time joined the neighboring Klingenberg printing company . In the period from 1888 to 1890, Münsterberg equipped the building with works of art that he had brought back from all over the world. Even after he left the Klingenberg company, the house remained in his possession, and his heirs rented it to the Lippe State Conservatory around 1917.

Due to their Jewish origins, the Münsterbergs were expropriated in 1942 and the building served as the headquarters of the Red Cross from then on . In 1981 the city of Detmold took over the Münsterberg building, and when Hornschen Strasse was widened in the mid-1980s, it was threatened with demolition. After public protests, the decision was made to move the entire building seven meters away from the street in a spectacular action in 1986. After a thorough renovation, the house has been the seat of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Literature Office in Detmold and the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Lippe since 1996 .

Architecture and equipment

According to epoch and architectural style, the Münsterberg house can be assigned to the Neo-Renaissance . The special protection value of the building is mainly due to the internal renovations and the equipment that Oskar Münsterberg had carried out at the time. Here you will find "rich ceiling paintings, baroque wooden doors, artfully forged lock fittings, Delft tiles , oriental tile carpets and a Moorish prayer niche ".

  • Ceiling painting

  • Door decoration

  • Delft tiles

  • Moorish prayer niche

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Haus Münsterberg at www.stadtdetmold.de ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Haus Münsterberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files