Huppertzhof
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The listed Huppertzhof is a half-timbered courtyard in the Uedding district of Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
history
The farm was built in the middle of the 16th century and is the oldest farm on the Lower Rhine. The former estate of the Gladbach Abbey was acquired and restored by the city of Mönchengladbach in the 1960s. Since 1967, the facility has served the artist Heinz Mack as a residence and studio, who has also set up some of his sculptures on the site. In a fire in September 1984, one of the buildings burned to the ground. On October 14, 1986, the courtyard was entered under no. U 009 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
architecture
In Neuwerk-Uedding there is the open courtyard with the address Ueddinger Straße 230-234, which consists of three buildings. The main house dates from the middle of the 16th century. It is one of the so-called smoke houses . The building has two floors and consists of five containers with four axes and three naves. A hipped roof completes the building. The neighboring house dates from the 17th century and consists of four containers. The barn dates from the 17th to 18th centuries. The Huppertzhof is worth protecting as a monument for reasons of urban history.
Web links
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Gruhn: The court for an artist . In: Rheinische Post . June 16, 2008 ( rp-online.de [accessed June 13, 2020]).
- ↑ Hans Platschek: Worse than your own death . In: The time . No. 39/1984 , September 21, 1984 ( zeit.de [accessed June 13, 2020]).
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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 ° 12 ′ 51.9 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 5.8 ″ E