House Speersort 12/14
The house Speersort 12/14 was a citizen of Hamburg house in the street Speersort in the area of Hamburg's Old Town . The palace was demolished in 1910 as part of Hamburg's old town renovation. The portal of the house, which Fritz Schumacher was incorporated into the concept of the Hamburg Museum as an architectural fragment and is freely accessible on its eastern side, has been preserved.
history
The palace was built in 1617/18 by the lawyer and Syndikus Vincent Moller from the Moller vom Baum family , who owned the house until 1671. Christina of Sweden is said to have stayed here around 1667 . After the Moller family, the house was owned by the Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorfi chancellor, Johann Adolph Kielmann von Kielmannsegg , who could only purchase it through an agent, since under Hamburg law non-Hamburgers were not allowed to purchase land in the city. Duke Christian Albrecht von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf lived there during his exile from 1675 to 1679 and 1682 to 1689. After 1710, the disgraced President of the Gottorf Council, Magnus von Wedderkop , lived there after he had his own house on the site of the Görtz-Palais stood, had been accepted by his competitor and successor Georg Heinrich von Görtz .
In the 19th century, the building was named Deutsches Haus when there was a coffee house with the same name there. The Reese & Wichmann chocolate factory had also existed here since 1831 .
facade
The house was built in the Renaissance style. What was striking was its extraordinary width, made possible by merging three plots, and the fact that it was made entirely of stone. The facade was designed rather simply; the main decoration was the richly decorated portal, slightly shifted to the left.
portal
The portal is framed by Corinthian columns and capitals. The Corinthian order is considered the noblest of the three ancient column orders , and its use emphasizes the rank of the builder. Circumferential reliefs, consisting of putti and fruit garlands, are placed on the column shafts. In the arched spandrels there are female figures, each with a cornucopia and grapes. The spandrel figures and the reliefs are to be understood as symbols of wealth and prosperity. Lions' heads and grimaces are set into the arched edge to guard the entrance. The lion's head as a symbol of strength, which was used here as the keystone of the arch, has a special meaning: Its strength stands for both the strength of the arch and the entire house, which is symbolically transferred to the entire family of the builder and resident can.
literature
- Wilhelm Melhop : Old Hamburg construction . Brief historical development of the architectural styles in Hamburg, shown 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, p. 66-70 .
- Uwe Meyer-Brunswick: Palais-like Hamburg town houses of the 17th century and their history . Ed .: Jörgen Bracker , Museum for Hamburg History. Sautter et al. Lackmann, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-88920-012-9 (also as a dissertation at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts ).
- Uwe Meyer-Brunswick: A Hamburg town house of the 17th century. The house of Syndic Vincent Möller at Speersort 12/14 and its prominent residents . In: Contributions to German folklore and antiquity . 25, 1986, pp. 25-45.
- 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 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Melhop: p. 67.
- ↑ a b c Symbols: p. 4.
- ↑ Melhop: p. 70.
- ↑ Melhop: p. 66.
- ↑ Meyer-Brunswick: p. 58
- ↑ Meyer-Brunswick: p. 59
- ↑ Meyer-Brunswick: pp. 59-60
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 0.2 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 54.5 ″ E