House of the merchants (Lübeck)

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The house of the merchants

The house of the merchant class in Lubeck houses behind its neo-Gothic plaster facade of 1838 two of the best meeting rooms of the Hanseatic city from the time of the Renaissance .

The remains of the merchants of Luebeck as the successor organization of the Lübeck merchants' guilds owned house in the Broad Street 6-8 in addition to the Schiffergesellschaft was the mid 19th -end of the 20th century by the Chamber of Commerce , and later in 1937 the industrial and Lübeck Chamber of Commerce used as an administrative building. Today it houses the IZL - Innovationszentrum-Lübeck. Behind its venerable walls opposite the Jakobikirche in Lübeck are two of the most beautiful rooms in Lübeck, which, however, do not have their original location here, but were only built here in the 19th century:

The paintings in the hall are by the leading North German mannerist Johannes Willinges .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fredenhagensche Zimmer in Lübeck , in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 19, May 14, 1884, p. 192., accessed on December 28, 2012; Stephanie Westermann: The paneling of the so-called Fredenhagen room from 1572/1583 in the house of the merchants in Lübeck. Description and historical data. In: ZVLGA 83 (2003) Digitalisat , pp. 101–155.

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 15 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 17 ″  E