Hoken 4 (Quedlinburg)

House Hoken 4, east side

The house Hoken 4 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It stands west of the Quedlinburg town hall, north of the town's market square. The western side of the eaves faces Marktstrasse , the eastern one faces Hoken Street . To the north of the building there is a passage from Hoken to Marktstrasse. The house is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and is listed as a residential building in the Quedlinburg Register of Monuments . The Hoken 3 house , which is also listed, is adjacent to the south .

Architecture and history

The three-storey half - timbered house was built at the beginning of the 16th century. On the eastern facade there are overlapping footbands. A small biaxial bay window is added to the south end of the first floor . The second floor overhangs. There is a box oriel on the western facade . The building was renovated in the second half of the 17th century. Here the house received pyramid beam heads .

literature

• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 141 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 23.7 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 30.2"  E