House Markt 16 (Steinfurt)
Markt 16 in Steinfurt refers to an old Renaissance house that stands on a medieval vaulted cellar.
The Markt 16 building, the Kestering civil servants' house , owes its design to a study visit by its builder in the Netherlands. In 1648, of all times, the Kestering couple bought a new building with the striking stepped gable in the style of a Dutch canal house. At that time there were only a few habitable houses in Burgsteinfurt, which was destroyed in the war. Foreign troops had plundered the citizens down to their last shirt. But Adelheid Huberts, who came from a wealthy family of professors, and her husband Casper Kestering, court judge and administrator of the County of Steinfurt, could afford the building on the foundations of a medieval previous house. They were also considered to be key figures for the count's fortune beyond Steinfurt's borders. Therefore, Kestering was imprisoned several times in the Thirty Years War. His wife was even held hostage by soldiers during the service in the Great Church to extort protection money.
As the dendrochronological reports show, the house was built in one piece in 1648; All wood samples from the house point to this year. The kitchen was on the ground floor. Kestering's office was on the first floor facing Kautenstege; this results from the green color decorations that can still be seen on the ceiling today.
The house used to have two elaborate sandstone chimneys. One, with Adam and Eve, can now be found in the Weinhaus, today's city library on the market. The other was lost for a long time and was re-installed in the old location on the first floor of the house after a chance find in the basement of the city archive. The fireplace in the living room from 1648 shows justice with sword and scales, without a blindfold. Pietas is shown with two small, unclothed children. The ledge bears two inscriptions: “August. imper. Pietate et iustitia principes dii fiunt ”(May princes become gods through piety and justice) and right: I. Timote 6.“ La piete avec contentement d´esprit est un grand gain ”(“ But it is a great gain if you are godly is and can be satisfied ”). The choice of French is likely to be reminiscent of Kestering's study place Orleans; French was also the language of diplomacy and correspondence at the time (for example during the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia). The chimney is reminiscent of Count Arnold IV's motto on the monument on Burgstrasse, “pietate et iustitia”, and the foundation stone of the high school: “Pietate et iustitia est anchora nobis”.
The initials of the names of the builders can be found in the shields of the two stone lions in front of the door.
The house was later occupied by the medical professor Wilhelm Christian Erpenbeck , initially as a tenant from 1776 and as the owner from May 5, 1787. Two years after purchasing the house, Erpenbeck had the house completely rebuilt. As dendrochronological reports show, the staircase from the ground floor to the first floor dates from 1789. Erpenbeck had the large room facing the market divided into four small rooms (size approx. 11-15 m²) and moved the Justitia fireplace from the back room to the front area.
literature
- Thomas Hoeren : Historical city guide Steinfurt . Steinfurt 2005, ISBN 3-934427-81-2 .
- Thomas Hoeren / Christiane Hildebrand-Stubbe / Günther Hilgemann : Steinfurt. Walks on settlement and architectural history . Steinfurt 2019, ISBN 978-3-944327-73-0 .
- A journey through history - 650 years of city rights 1347–1997 . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1997, ISBN 3-89570-278-1 .
- Hans-Walter Pries: Market and Markets in Burgsteinfurt . Steinfurt 1989.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hilgemann, Westfälische Nachrichten of March 20, 1980
- ↑ Hilgemann, Westfälische Nachrichten of July 10, 1957
- ^ Photo in Westfalen 22 (1937), 269 and in the Steinfurter Kreisblatt dated September 5, 1958
- ↑ Description in WN of July 10, 1957.
- ^ Ingeborg Höting: The professors of the Steinfurter high school. Steinfurt 1991, p. 59 ff. And archive link ( memento of the original from October 9, 2007 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: 52 ° 8 ′ 50.5 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 21.1 ″ E