High House (Berlin)

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The high house in Berlin was the residence of the Brandenburg margrave .

history

Until the middle of the 15th century, the high house was one of the residences of the Brandenburg margraves and electors before the castle on the Cöllnischen Spreeufer was completed . The margravial city residence began in the second half of the 13th century and was completed around 1315. For a long time it was considered “the only bigger house” in Berlin. It was built near the northern medieval city wall southeast of the Oderberger Tor and was documented as early as 1261 as the Berlin auditorium (later “Alter Hof”). It was taken over as the quarters of the Brandenburg margraves. The high house was a rectangle that was 19.70 m wide and 17.50 m deep along the street; the 5.32 m high, flat, three-aisled ground floor rose on a plinth and above it was a 5.15 m high upper floor. The pointed arcades separated the aisles from the nave. Access to the basement was via a small car driveway, the main entrance to the upper floor via a wooden staircase. The garden was behind the high house. The Hohenzollern Friedrich, Burgrave of Nuremberg (1371-1440) was appointed imperial provincial administrator and in 1415 elector. Under his son, Elector Friedrich II "Eisenzahn" (1413–1471, Elector 1440–1470), the high house served as a castle fief. Later it fell apart. The successor building served as the governor's seat, as an orphanage, from 1705 as a knight's academy, from 1713 as a wool warehouse and later as a wool factory. It was demolished in 1931, exposing the remains of the building. An archway is now in the Märkisches Museum .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ High house on Klosterstrasse . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 5, 1999, ISSN  0944-5560 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  2. ↑ Aula Berlin - High House. (PDF) Berliner Historische Mitte e. V., accessed on April 4, 2020 .