Heinrich Schütz House (Dresden)

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Quartier V / 2 with the Heinrich Schütz House
Heinrich Schütz Residence, Neumarkt 11-12

The Heinrich-Schütz-Haus is a building at Frauenstrasse 14 at the corner of Neumarkt in Dresden . It is named after Heinrich Schütz , who lived in the house originally located here from 1629 to 1657. The ensemble of three houses, which also includes the Koehler House belongs is also known as Quartier V , respectively. The children's dance relief frieze from the Renaissance, which is the counterpart to the death dance relief frieze, has been preserved.

Bay window Neumarkt at the corner of Frauenstrasse, Dresden, so-called "children's frieze"

The Renaissance building originally located here around 1530 was redesigned in 1730/1731 and again in the 19th century. During the air raids on Dresden on 13./14. It was destroyed in February 1945. In its place, the Heinrich Schütz House was rebuilt as a senior citizens' residence in 2007/2008. The outer facades were reconstructed according to the pre-war state and the interior designed in a modern way.

On a corner bay was a frieze consisting of a sandstone relief depicting 32 dancing children. It was created by Christoph Walther I around 1535. Parts of the frieze could be recovered after 1945 and in 1961 they were attached to a new building opposite the Dresden Gewandhaus (Eckhaus Ringstrasse 1), but one above the other for reasons of space. On the occasion of the reconstruction of the Heinrich Schütz House, the frieze was returned to its original place.

The frieze is the opposite of the Dresden Dance of Death:

" As a counter-example to this unworldly depiction [the dance of death relief frieze on the Georgenbau], the frieze with the happy, naked crowd of children by the same master [Christoph Walther I.] on the round bay window on Frauenstrasse at the corner of Neumarkt, where the renaissance is unfolding in its cosmopolitanism"

- Löffler, p. 34

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Web links

Commons : Heinrich-Schütz-Haus (Dresden)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Löffler, p. 34 and p. 61, image no. 71 (The Renaissance corner bay window Frauengasse 14 and Neumarkt), p. 487 (House Frauengasse No. 14 at the corner of Neumarkt)

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 25.1 ″  E