Holsteinerhof

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Holsteinerhof, front side with Hebelstrasse
Holsteinerhof, garden side

The Holsteinerhof is a listed secular building at Hebelstrasse 32 in Basel and is considered to be its first baroque building . Today, as the administrative headquarters of the cantonal hospital , it is part of the extensive hospital grounds in Basel, after it was threatened with demolition for the large hospital garage in the early 1950s. The object is part of the Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance .

history

The property, which reached as far as the city wall at the time in the west of the city, belonged to the black dyer Theodor Ruprecht, who in 1696 passed it to the Duchess Augusta Maria von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (1649–1728), wife of Margrave Friedrich Magnus von Baden-Durlach , sold. The street ended in the west at the city wall and was called Neue Vorstadt until 1871 . It was between the third and fourth city fortifications, which had been built in the late 14th and 16th centuries, respectively. Augusta Maria and her husband had fled the Palatinate to Basel to escape the Palatinate War of Succession .

The building was built by Samuel Burckhardt on a large vaulted cellar and was initially called "Zur Pfalz". Augusta Maria's second eldest son, Karl Wilhelm , swapped this property in 1736 for the Markgräflerhof at the other end of the street . So in 1743 it came into the possession of computer adviser and art collector Samuel Burckhardt-Zaeslin (1692–1766), son of the builder of the same name. Burckhardt was a skilful and wealthy merchant, had acquired an extraordinary fortune by trading in salt and by owning ironworks for the time, and loved representative property. Until 1752 he had the house redesigned according to his ideas by Johann Jacob Fechter in the form still visible today. The rear garden is also based on his wishes.

After Burckhardt's death in 1767, the Basel merchant Albrecht Ochs became the new owner. After his return from several years abroad, the house became the center of social life and intellectual exchange on a European level. After Ochs' early death in 1780, his son Peter Ochs took over the property with his wife, who had only recently celebrated their wedding here.

The Holsteinerhof was the place of negotiations between France and Prussia in the course of the First Coalition War . First conversations took place on August 4, 1794 in the "green room". Bernhard von der Goltz (1736–1795) as a Prussian diplomat lived in the house from November 30th to January 22nd, 1795 and was empowered to negotiate with the French. The talks concluded in 1795 in the special peace treaty of Basel . A little later the Holsteinerhof was again the scene of negotiations, this time between France and Spain. In order to ensure the greatest possible secrecy, on Ochs' advice, the Spanish diplomat Domingo Gabriel de Iriarte y Nieves Ravelo (1739–1795) moved into a house whose garden was adjacent to the Ochs'schen garden. Half a year after the contract with Prussia was signed, the peace treaty with Spain was signed on the night of July 23, 1795 in the music hall of the house.

Ochs' revolutionary urge was ultimately undoing. He lost his government mandate in 1799 and had to part with the property due to financial difficulties. He sold it for 100,000 livres to the merchant Johann Konrad Burckhardt-Ryhiner (1747–1814), with great financial losses . Subsequently, the house remained in the family for many generations. In 1871 the property and the house were sold to the tape manufacturer Emil Burckhardt-Koechlin (1842–1908). Since 1922 it has belonged to the Bürgerspital Basel , which Emil Burckhardt's three daughters bought it.

On March 16, 1995, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Basel Peace Treaty, a commemoration was held at Holsteinerhof, to which the Grand Council had invited. The guest speaker was the historian Christian Simon , Markus Kutter wrote a historicizing poetic text on the occasion. Half a year later, the Grand Council held a conference on the subject of peace and war since 1795 - historical peace and conflict research , and on November 23, a special exhibition on the Peace of Basel opened in the former City and Minster Museum .

Building description

The two-story building of house number 32 is strongly structured under its hipped roof with its seven window axes by a central cornice and the two richly decorated dwelling houses . The two central pilaster strips seem to support the portal and divide the front into 2–3–2 windows. The middle section does not stand out. The three central axes thus emphasized "including the portal and gable under a hipped roof, a wall structure working with empty areas in harmonious proportions became the binding type and style of the Basel city and garden palace."

The two chimneys of the chimneys in the middle of the house are arranged at the two ridge ends .

House number 30 from the Burckhard period is directly attached and continuous inside. The style is indistinguishable from the main building. Towards the garden, it has a single-axis rear building with a significantly lower storey height.

Furnishing

Almost nothing is left of the original equipment. The Basel Historical Museum owns a grandfather clock from 1701, built by Johannes Tschudy , which was part of the Holsteinerhof's inventory. There are also two cabinet desks, one of which is still autochthonously in the house and the other is also in the Historical Museum.

In the era of Emil Burckhardt-Koechlin and his wife Sophie, there was a round tower oven with faience feet in the house. This so-called freshness oven was acquired from the Spiesshof , Oberer Heuberg 7, in 1890 . The ceramic stove, painted with flower garlands and tufts of flowers, dates from 1766. A similar model can be found today in the Hôtel du Peyrou in Nyon , and according to other information in the Hôtel DuPeyrou in Neuchâtel NE . At the time of purchase in the Spiesshof, the Swiss Central Railway was the owner of the Spiesshof and the initiator of the purchase of the stove. With the sale of the Holsteinerhof to the Basel hospital in 1922, the stove (now located in the Holsteinerhof) came into the possession of the hospital and was sold to the Frankfurt art trade in 1933 at the instigation of the hospital company; no further whereabouts can be determined.

Web links

Commons : Holsteinerhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hebelstrasse on Basel buildings
  2. ^ Gustav Adolf Wanner: The Holsteinerhof. In: houses, people, fates. Volume 1, Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, Basel 1985, ISBN 3-85815-126-2 , p. 94
  3. ^ Andreas Fischer: walls, entrenchments, gates. Basel's fortifications through the ages. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2007, pp. 61–63, ISBN 978-3-85616-332-7 .
  4. ^ The art monuments of the canton of Basel-Stadt. Volume VII, Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Zug 2006, ISBN 978-3-906131-84-9 , p. 146
  5. ↑ a b Historisches Museum Basel Annual Report 2007
  6. ^ Jean Portmann: The sex in the 18th century. In: Ckdt .: Streiflichter on history and personalities of the Basel family Burckhardt. Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, Basel 1990, ISBN 978-3-85815204-6 , pp. 85-86.
  7. ↑ a b Peter F. Kopp: Peter Ochs. His life told based on personal testimony and richly illustrated with authentic pictures. Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, Basel 1992, ISBN 978-3-85815248-0 .
  8. ↑ Markus Kutter: The father of the Basel Peace in the Holsteinerhof cellar 200 years later. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1995 , pp. 40–41.
  9. ↑ Art Guide through Switzerland , Volume 3, Society for Swiss Art History, 1st edition 2006, p. 121
  10. ^ Catalog of the ovens and oven tiles from the Frisching Manufactory in Bern. Bulletin / Ceramic Friends of Switzerland, 1970, Issue 81, pp. 28-30

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '39.8 "  N , 7 ° 34' 53.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven  /  267,826