Hetzgeshof

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The Hetzgeshof Jucken is a listed farm complex from the first half of the 18th century in Jucken in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm , which reflects classic style elements of the Eifel farmhouse culture. The inclusion in the list of cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate took place in 1995 with the reasoning: “Especially with its changes, the Hetzgeshof shows the changing living and building habits of a rural property in a characteristic form in the last century. In order to promote historical awareness and for technical reasons, there is a public interest in its preservation and maintenance. In addition, the building contributes to increasing the value and enlivening its surroundings ”.

history

According to oral tradition , the origin of Hetzgeshofes dates back to the late 17th century, shortly after the Thirty Years' War . It was one of seven houses in the village, which were used for resettlement after the devastating war. The name of the farm comes from the family name of the builder, Hitzges (pronounced: Hetzges)

In the middle of the 18th century the foundation stone for the house in its current form was laid. It was a two-story, two-room-deep hall kitchen with a gable roof , three window axes and an attached cattle shed, which was typically built in the West Eifel . The stone building character, which emerged after the Thirty Years' War, arose because there were also a large number of rubble stones in the local fields . Regionally typical for the Eifel is an alignment of the gable in the western main direction of rain. A small oven with a flat slate roof was also built there. “The floor plan is just as clear and simple as the elongated structure itself. In the kitchen, which can be reached directly through the front door or via the narrow hall, there is a chimney framed by heavy oak beams above the previously open fireplace . The originally open hearth fire also heats the living room through the cast iron plate . "

The extension of the house in 1869, documented by a sandstone engraving above the main entrance with the year and initials of the renovators, brought space and living comfort for that time. The main building was extended to the west by a window axis. The small windows have also been enlarged. The incisive 70 cm thick former gable wall in the house still testifies to this today. The oven attached to the gable was also removed. Raising the ceilings on the upper floor created headroom.

Shortly afterwards, in 1867, a single-storey bakery with a forge was built a little away from the house. Inside there is a still usable 30 m 3 oven extension for twelve large farmhouse loaves. The forge with bellows operated by the same chimney is evidence of a multifunctional place of use.

The development of farm buildings is less well documented than that of residential buildings. The elongated stable building, which was used for cattle breeding until 1980, was renewed and stabilized shortly after the Second World War with a new pumice stone ceiling and the new window front. Signs of bygone times are a narrow, spartan residential unit and a transmission for a central energy conversion machine to drive various machines in the barn with a belt drive.

A wooden field barn from 1954, which could be found identically in three other locations in the community, was used to store the harvest.

1995 began the multi-year restoration of the house under the supervision of the monument preservation . In doing so, emphasis was placed on maintaining important stylistic elements and implementing modern living standards. This was followed in 2008 by the restoration of the bakery, also under the supervision of the preservation authorities.

View of the Hetzgeshof from the southwest

Style elements outside

The Hetzgeshof is a litter yard in the form of a Franconian homestead , ie the farm buildings , the bakery and the house are scattered irregularly around the yard. The roof structure made of oak beams and a slate roofing without dormers and without a roof overhang with 25 cm by 25 cm natural slates was created from regional quarries and forests . At the west gable there is a crooked hip . The simple, classical style of door and window frames is reflected in the scratched sandstone walls of the doors and windows, which are equally wide and strictly one above the other. The 70 cm thick quarry stone walls are plastered with fine plaster and lime paint. An original skylight with four flowers together with a replica of the classicist front door with diamond panels and sundials forms the main entrance door of the former storey house. The white-painted wooden lattice windows with two sashes and supporting lattices form another stylistic element. The bakery with the intact stone oven and the forge are evidence of the way of life at that time.

Style elements inside

Inside the house, the wall paintings , wall paneling or lambris , which imitate marbling, should be mentioned. Strangely enough, they are not, as suspected, to be found in the representative rooms of the house, but are in the rooms on the first floor. In the large main room of the house, the hall kitchen, there used to be a terrazzo floor . This was replaced by ceramic tiles in a checkerboard pattern. A still existing take plate with two motifs from 1727 was used as the medium for transferring the heat from the fireplace with the large chimney into the living room . An archangel is depicted on one half . Another special feature is the greywackstone floor in the game association within the extension. Everywhere there are still oak beams with fillings made of clay and straw wrapped in oak, so-called Schollholzern, as ceilings. On the upper floor there are original three-part door leaves with original fittings and box locks as well as an oak floor.

location

The Hetzgeshof is in itch . This place is deep in the agriculturally embossed cultural landscape of the Eifel integrated and is part of the German-Luxembourg Nature Park . Similar boundary conditions as described above led to several monuments within the community.

Photo gallery

  • Sketch of the courtyard

  • Main entrance door

  • Large wall painting (Lambris)

  • Small wall painting (Lambris)

  • Grauwackesteinfloor in game association

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d District administration Bitburg-Prüm: Protected residential building at Kapellenstrasse 16 in Jucken as a cultural monument, Az .: 2.363-02, October 25, 1995, 2 pages
  2. ^ Marie Luise Niewodniczanska: Eifeler Bauernhausfiebel. In: Prümer Landbote, Ed .: Geschichtsverein Prümer-Land, February 1985

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '19.99 "  N , 6 ° 13' 59.51"  E