House Mertens (Lüneburger Strasse 23)

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Lüneburger Strasse 23, 2013

The house Mertens is a listed residential and commercial building in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The building is located on the west side of Lüneburger Straße at its northern end in Magdeburg's Alte Neustadt district at the address Lüneburger Straße 23 . To the north of the house was the Mertens House (Lüneburger Straße 22) , which was demolished in 2013 . A little further north of the house runs the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line , which bridges Lüneburger Strasse over the Lüneburger Strasse railway bridge.

Architecture and history

The four-storey brick building was built in 1893 for the master bricklayer Fritz Mertens in the northern neo-renaissance style. The name Haus Mertens goes back to Mertens and is used in the same way for the formerly neighboring building Lüneburger Straße 22.

The facade of the representatively designed building is structured by narrow, horizontal plaster strips. On the second and third floors there are two flat, profiled blind arcades that span two window axes. The spandrels below the round arches house two helmeted and wreathed head busts. One of the busts represents a female head, the other a male head. On the third floor there are stucco reliefs in the parapet area . They depict winged, helmeted beings as well as heraldic fields and banners. The ground floor is completely plastered.

In the middle of the street is a flat risalit , in front of whose facade a polygonal bay window is arranged on the first and second floors . Two caryatids - herms - can be found here as decorations . Above the bay there is a large roof bay on the roof . A square with a compass is shown in its gable.

In the local register of monuments , the building is recorded as a residential and commercial building under registration number 094 16815.

literature

  • Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 399 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 2553 f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 49.7 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 22.1"  E