House tree house

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The house tree house (official name: House of Architects ) is one of the oldest largely preserved merchant houses in Rostock and the surrounding area from the time of the Hanseatic League. The building is named after the building principle of the house tree .

Location and surroundings

The house tree house is located in Rostock's city center, at Wokrenterstraße 40. The street runs in north-south direction between Langen Straße and Strandstraße and can only be reached on foot from Langen Straße. The development for vehicles from the south is via the street An der Oberkante .

Naming

The house tree supports the ceiling structure consisting of strong beams in the hall.

The name of the building was derived from the house tree with decorated headbands and a joist. The storage floors are supported by the "branches" of the house tree.

History of origin

The late Gothic building was built in 1490. The names of the builders involved are not known. The tall construction with the narrow facade facing the street was typical of this era. The closed brick facade and the staggered gable are equally characteristic of the building .

Construction and use

The structure of the building made of wood resembles a tree with upward branching beams . This carries essential parts of the largely preserved wooden beam ceiling. The oak house tree stands almost in the middle of the building and rests on a large granite boulder in the basement in the basement. The house tree leads through two floors of the building and carries the main load of the structure. He also ensured that the constantly changing static load of the goods stored on the storage floors was transferred to the foundation. In the upper attic there is a winch system with a wave wheel . This was used to hoist the merchant's goods from the hall into the three storage floors lying one above the other.

The winch system with corrugated gear from the Middle Ages.

A girder resting on the house tree with supporting struts distributes the entire load of the storage floors. Wide headbands and saddle sticks have been added for stabilization.

The street front shows the stepped gable with five panels in brick, which is typical for the time of construction. Although in the 15th century all town houses probably had a divided room, this house is counted as a residential hall type. It consists of the upper storage floors and a hallway that takes up the entire height of the building.

History of the building

State 1980

Since its construction, the building has mainly been used as a storage facility, especially the upper storage floors. During the 17th to the 18th centuries, living quarters were built into the lower storage floors. Window openings were pried open and the Utluchten added. The alterations made during this period also included changing the storey height behind the street gable and plastering the two lower storeys of the stepped gable.

The two-storey Kemlade , the courtyard wing, was built around 1625, but was demolished in 1970 due to its dilapidation. Until 1975 the building was used entirely as a residential building, but from 1979 only in the front part of the house. In 1980 the house could no longer be used due to its desolate condition.

The reconstruction began in January 1981 on the basis of drafts by the Association of Architects (BDA) under the direction of Peter Baumbach . On March 17, 1983, the building was reopened as the “House of Architects”. In 2002 the building was taken over by the German Foundation for Monument Protection (DSD) and extensively renovated two years later. Today the building is the seat of the Rostock local board of trustees of the DSD. The winch system from the Middle Ages has been preserved and repaired. The entire structure can be viewed during opening hours. The Rostock house tree house is the only one that can also be experienced from the inside. There are similar buildings in Greifswald and Stralsund , among others .

Web links

Commons : House Tree House  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hermann Wirtz: Technology: Evidence of the history of production and transport. 1st edition. Tourist-Verlag, Berlin u. a. 1990, ISBN 3-350-00283-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ House tree house. at the German Foundation for Monument Protection
  2. The house tree house at Wokrenter Strasse 40. in the web portal for the state and monument preservation of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '26.8 "  N , 12 ° 8' 8.9"  E