House Rödingsmarkt 60
The house Rödingsmarkt 60 was a Hamburg town house in the area of Hamburg's old town . The portal of the house has been preserved, dating from 1631. The building in the Rödingsmarkt street probably goes back to an older development from the Middle Ages. The entire house was renovated in 1885 and finally demolished in 1896 for a new building. The portal of the house is now an architectural fragment in the jewelry garden of the Hamburg Museum .
facade
A photograph from 1882, thus made before the renovation in 1885, shows a brick facade with a simple gable triangle and unusually wide windows. Also noteworthy were the relief arches over some windows, made from bricks and sandstone blocks based on the Dutch model.
portal
Particularly striking is the over 8 m high sandstone portal, which could be entered via a five-step staircase between massive side cheeks. The renaissance portal consists of a round arch with figuratively designed arch spandrels, fluted columns, a wide architrave and a crowned figural niche. Two cartridges are attached to the architrave . The right one shows the construction date ANNO DOMINI 1631 . In the left cartridge you can read: NESCIT HOMO FINEM SUUM (Man does not know his end). The figurative representations in the arches are female figures who are endowed with different attributes . The figure on the left is holding a mirror and glasses, while the figure on the right is assigned a bird (presumably a pigeon) and ears of corn. In the niche on the architrave, a three-dimensional figure is inserted, which earlier probably carried a sword and a scale. Above the figure niche there is another cartridge with the inscription GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO (Glory to God on high).
history
The house was owned by the Moller vom Baum family when the portal was built . Research on the history of the builders and owners of the Rödingsmarkt 60 house and the portal was made and published by Silke Urbanski .
literature
- Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg style of construction: brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg, depicted on the secular building up to the resurrection of the city after the great fire of 1842, along with chronological-biographical notes . Boysen & Maasch, Hamburg 1908.
- Wolfgang Rudhard: The community center in Hamburg . Ernst Wasmuth Publishing House, Tübingen 1975.
- Symbols in stone . In: Hamburg portrait . No. 10 . Museum of Hamburg History, Hamburg 1987.
- Silke Urbanski : A portal of the Moller family from the tree . In: Tiedenkieker. Hamburg history sheets . No. 3 , 2013, ISSN 2190-6777 , p. 39-41 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 53.8 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 12 ″ E