House of the Church (Güstrow)
The house of the church is a baroque house on the property Grüner Winkel 10 in Güstrow in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is used by the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg as a conference center, but is also available as a conference hotel to other non-church associations.
history
The nine-axis baroque half-timbered house with a mansard roof was built around 1750 and was first known as the Krüger-Hansensches Majoratshaus . It served as a residential building for the respective beneficiaries of the family affidavit established by Senator Georg Heinrich Hansen († 1818) in his will . The most famous resident from 1821 on was his nephew, the doctor Bogislav Conrad Krüger-Hansen (1776–1850). In 1925 the house was bought by the parish hall association and used by them in various ways. After 1933 important events of the Confessing Church took place here. Since the Güstrow Cathedral was claimed by the German Christians during the Nazi era , services were celebrated here with those parishioners who were unable to visit the cathedral during this time. After the war it was initially used as a home for apprentices and students and could only be used to a limited extent by the communities. In 1956 it was named after the state superintendent of Mecklenburg Sibrand Siegert (1890-1954). In the years after 1960 the building was restored and brought up to the new technical standard. In the years around 2012, a new renovation was necessary due to sponge infestation , which was completed in 2016.
architecture
The building is a partly plastered, partly only muddy half-timbered house with a mansard roof and has been extended by renewed side wings to form a four-wing complex with two small inner courtyards. During a renovation in the 1960s, the illusionistic facade painting in the five western axes was restored according to findings. This restoration proved that the western part of the house is older. When the house was later expanded by four axes, the whole house was given a uniform plaster structure with cuboids on the ground floor and pilasters with segmented arched gables on the upper floor, as preserved in the four eastern axes.
Above the third and the seventh axis there are dwelling houses , each with a gable with a moving outline in late baroque shapes. Today's main entrance with skylight is on the third axis from the west and is highlighted by two rococo-shaped lanterns . At the eaves there is a later added gargoyle in the shape of a kite.
Furnishing
A total of five large conference rooms with space for up to 60 people in the largest room are available to users. There is also a dining room and a fireplace room. A total of 32 guest rooms with 52 beds with shower and toilet are available. The usual conference technology such as video projector , DVD player, flipchart , pin boards, WiFi is available to users, as well as a grand piano in room 1 and an electric piano in room 5 . Some of the rooms can be reached barrier-free via a glazed elevator attached to the west.
literature
- Gerhard Bosinski: Güstrow and its churches. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1980, pp. 86–89.
Web links
- Literature about the house of the church (Güstrow) in the state bibliography MV
- Website of the House of the Church on the website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Photography before 1945 by Berthold Kegebein , Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
- ^ State and learned newspaper of the Hamburg impartial correspondent , supplement from April 8, 1826
- ↑ Report of the Evangelical Church newspaper from February 15, 2016. Accessed on June 16, 2019 .
- ^ Web pages of the House of the Church. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 34.2 " N , 12 ° 10 ′ 20.3" E