House Markt 13 (Steinfurt)
Markt 13 is the address of an important Biedermeier house in the city of Steinfurt .
Markt 13, the so-called Pieter van der Swaagh house , is a half-timbered house with a sandstone facade. When the city judge Friedrich Adolf Houth planned a new building on the site of an old inn in 1784, he had to observe the Count's design specifications. The classicist facade in simple black and white goes back to the taste of the time at court. Houth left the house to the last great law professor of the high school, Adolf von der Marck. The house owes its name to the Count's rent master Peter van der Swaagh, whose coat of arms is still above the front door. The rentmaster had fled Holland because of political persecution and found asylum in Steinfurt. He lived in the house from 1795 to 1812.
How short-lived the fashionable architectural styles were at the time is shown by the strange-looking five flower pots with agaves on the gable balustrade. These pots with the bronze leaves originally adorned the ledge of the concert gallery in Steinfurt's Bagno . After only ten years, they no longer matched the changing tastes of the time and from then on served the city builder as an amazing gag.
literature
- Thomas Hoeren : Historical city guide Steinfurt . Steinfurt 2005, ISBN 3-934427-81-2 .
- A journey through history - 650 years of city rights 1347–1997 . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1997, ISBN 3-89570-278-1 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 50.6 " N , 7 ° 20 ′ 23.8" E