House to the horn
The Haus Zum Horn is a listed residential building in Aachen . It takes its name from Wilhelm VII. Van Horn († July 21, 1433), the owner of the previous building and sponsor of the neighboring Dominican monastery in Aachen . He was married to Johanna von Moers and they had their son Jakob I, who donated a plaque on his father's grave slab in the Dominican church of St. Paul and later transferred to the Franciscans.
description
In 1659, after the great fire in the city, a two-storey, 14-axis bluestone framework was built at today's Jakobstraße 24 in the bluestone framework with cross-section windows and a monumental round-arched gate entrance, which is characteristic of Aachen . In this and in the neighboring buildings up to house number 18, the house Zum güldenen Vercken (house Zum golden Schwein ) and later Marianneninstitut , Cornelius Chorus (1659-1754), the guild master of the Nadler, judged the Qurin Chorus (1632– 1687) inherited a needle factory founded in 1654, which remained there until 1881. The two-axis extension for the factory management, commissioned by his son of the same name (1701–1774) and created in 1757 by Johann Joseph Couven , is an important example of the Aachen Rococo due to its vertically aligned proportions and the fine window profiles .
In the Second World War, the building was destroyed except for the archway and the extension, in 1952 a new building was erected with the re-construction of the gate on new foundations and preservation of the Couven wing.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 1: Claudia Euskirchen and others: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 44.
- Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: War fates of German architecture. Loss, damage, rebuilding. Documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 1: North. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-02685-9 , p. 351.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 30 ″ N , 6 ° 4 ′ 50 ″ E