Hohmann's court
Hohmanns Hof was a through yard in Leipzig between Petersstrasse and Neumarkt. On the sides of the street it had representative baroque buildings . It was destroyed in World War II.
Location and shape
The property of Hohmanns Hof extended as a 100 meter long and 40 to 50 meter wide strip between the associated street front houses at Petersstrasse 15 and Neumarkt 16.
The most representative building was the one on Petersstrasse. The four-story house had a three -story oriel above its portal , with five window axes on each side . In gambrel three rows were of gable dormers arranged. The portal was particularly richly decorated. Beside the seated bay were two statues, the power with a lion and the globe and the wealth, pouring gold, pearls and crowns from a cornucopia. The windows were richly decorated.
The courtyard side of the house and the side buildings in the courtyard were kept simpler. The opening for the goods elevator was in the courtyard by the main building in a gable on the sixth floor. The somewhat simpler house facing the Neumarkt was three stories high and eleven window axes wide. Shops and a restaurant were located in the vaults of the ground floor of the entire complex, which is geared towards trade fair operations. Apartments were set up on the floors with stucco work and some with ceiling paintings.
The previous building: Breunigkes Hof
The ground floor plan of Hohmanns Hof
Petersstrasse with Hohmanns Hof around 1880
Hohmanns Hof around 1900
The Neumarkt side
The successor building:
the exhibition center
history
Thomas Breunigke and his heirs had owned a farm on the above property since 1629, on which there was an inn before 1530. The engraver and art dealer Peter Schenk the Elder (1660–1711) lived in Breunigke's court , and Johann Petzsch ran a ballroom here.
From 1728 to 1731 the Leipzig trade and councilor Peter Hohmann (1662–1732) had Breunigke's court rebuilt by the architect and builder George Werner (1682–1758). The house on Petersstrasse alone cost 19,500 thalers . After the renovation, the building complex was named Hohmanns Hof until it was destroyed. For Peter Hohmann it was the third city palace after his houses on the market (later Aeckerleins Hof ) and on Katharinenstrasse. With his nobility elevation in 1717, Hohmann was the progenitor of the von Hohenthal family . The Hohenthals owned Hohmanns Hof until the 20th century.
The poet and translator Adolf Böttger (1815–1870), who was also born here, lived in Hohmann's court .
Hohmanns Hof was completely destroyed in World War II. In its place, the Messehof exhibition center was built between 1949 and 1950 as the first new exhibition center after the war.
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony Issue 18, pp. 485–487 (digitized version )
- Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 . P. 56/57
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 . P. 248
- Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . Volume 1. ProLeipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-945027-04-2 , p. 398/399
- Alberto Schwarz: Das Alte Leipzig - Stadtbild und Architektur , Beucha 2018, p. 106 ff., ISBN 978-3-86729-226-9 .
Web links
- Hohmann's court. In: Leipzig Lexicon. Retrieved April 14, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig , p. 56
- ↑ Breunigke's court. (No longer available online.) In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015 ; accessed on April 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 19.8 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 31.5" E