High House (Greetsiel)

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The high house
Side view with the original cellar windows and the up chamber

The high house is a “splendid two-story brick building with a plastered facade in imitation cuboids” in Greetsiel . On its west side, the building has original cellar windows and a so-called up chamber, a room in the residential wing that is higher than the other rooms because of a semi-above-ground cellar below. The building is a historical monument.

history

The “stately, elongated house” is dated to 1696 by the anchor numbers. It was built as the seat of the rent office of the former Greetsiel Castle, which at the time stood on the other side of the valley . Inside it has a representative staircase and, on the upper floor, spacious suites of rooms for the time. After losing its function as a rent office, it has served as an inn for around 150 years. After extensive restoration work, it was reopened as a hotel in 1995.

Web links

Commons : High House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See: List of architectural monuments in Greetsiel .
  2. ↑ Gottfried Kiesow : Architectural Guide Ostfriesland . German Foundation for Monument Protection, Monument Publications, Bonn 2010, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 , p. 93 .
  3. ^ House prospectus. (PDF) Hotel Hohes Haus, accessed on October 26, 2017 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '2.6 "  N , 7 ° 5' 39.3"  E