Waltershof manor house

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In the background, parts of the front with the entrance door of the Waltershof manor, on June 2, 1904

The Herrenhaus Waltershof or Herrenhaus auf Waltershof or Domainhaus Waltershof was a building erected in 1775 in today's Hamburg-Waltershof district , which was demolished in 1969 as part of the construction of the Hamburg Elbe Tunnel . The Hamburg Elbe island Rugenbergen and the Hamburg island Griesenwerder since 1768 were probably merged in the 1770s. The respective goods of the individual islands were merged into one property, which could be called Waltershof by the Senate resolution of September 16, 1788. The estate with the manor house was acquired by the Hamburg Senate in 1858 at the suggestion of Senator Arning . Georg Friedrich Schwabe appointed the Finanzudeputaion as administrator of the area now known as Domain Waltershof. On August 26, 1913, the domain was removed from the land register and the area was used for the port expansion. Since then, the building has served the former domain as an apartment building, a use that the building had until it was demolished.

Building description

The two-storey brick lens building of 7x4 axes had a pan-covered hipped gable roof with a three-axis gable on the front. A one-story thatched brick building was attached to the rear of the house. The ground floor of the residential building was structured by a continuous central floorboard, from which a staircase led to the upper floor and two rooms on either side, one of which was a kitchen. The following inscription was carved over the entrance door: Cum Deo aedificatum MDCCLXXV ( Built with God 1775).

Representations

The entrance hall of the Herrenhaus Waltershof is shown in a picture by Hans Olde from 1894, which is owned by the Hamburger Kunsthalle . There is a series of watercolors, created by Hermann Haase in 1915, which depict exterior and interior views of the Waltershof manor house.

Entry in the list of monuments

In 1923 the manor on Waltershof was entered in the list of monuments. Of all the older buildings owned by the Hamburg state, this mansion has best preserved its original character from the mid-18th century, just as the French-style garden from the 18th century is perhaps the only example in Hamburg's area: an oasis in the middle of the harbor, which, hopefully, the peculiar stimulus inherent in this circumstance will give it a longer lifespan.

Before breaking off

Since relocating the motorway route was out of the question and relocating the building was too expensive, the stairs and doors were “salvaged”, the stucco work was molded, various photos were taken and the dimensions were recorded.

literature

  • Otto Tafelsky: From the history of the Elbe estates Rugenbergen and Griesenwerder - today Waltershof . In: Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter , No. 5, October 1968, pp. 105–119. Available online from the Hamburg State and University Library via digitization server
  • P. Gädtgens: The manor house on Waltershof . In: Mitteilungen für die Bauwirtschaft 23 Vol. 98, Hamburg, December 6, 1969. p. 2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Hipp : Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, history, culture and urban architecture on the Elbe and Alster, DuMont art travel guide, 1989, ISBN 3770115902 , p. 284
  2. ↑ Otto Tafelsky: From the story ..., p. 109
  3. ↑ a b Otto Tafelsky: From the story ..., p. 110
  4. ↑ P. Gädtgens: The mansion on Waltershof .
  5. ^ A b K. Mathieu, MF Fischer: Baukunst und Architekten . In: Gardens, country houses and villas of the Hamburg bourgeoisie. Art. Culture and social life in four centuries (from the collection of the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, no.4). Hamburg 1975, p. 36
  6. ↑ see http://www.bridgemanimages.com/ picture ~ XKH152158
  7. ^ Gardens, country houses and villas of the Hamburg bourgeoisie. Art. Culture and social life in four centuries (from the collection of the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, no.4). Hamburg 1975, p. 96
  8. ^ Annual report of the administrative authorities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 1926, p. 110
  9. ↑ see list of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Mitte No. 57
  10. ↑ P. Gädtgens: The mansion on Waltershof .

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '10.1 "  N , 9 ° 55' 21.6"  E