Beekeeping House (Vorsfelde)

Beekeeping House (2016)

The beekeeping house , also known as the beekeeping house , is the oldest preserved secular building in the Wolfsburg district of Vorsfelde in Lower Saxony . It was in 1590 as a half-timbered house built and is since the first third of the 20th century monument . The name is derived from the local beekeeper family , who have owned the house since 1880.

location

The square of “Ütschenpaul” (Fröschepfuhl) opposite the beekeeping house, left: Amtsstraße, right: Lange Straße

The beekeeping house is located at Amtsstraße 9 in the old town of Vorsfelde. Before street names were introduced in the town, it was number 30. The building is part of the historic town center, which is made up of a closed collection of restored half-timbered buildings and a few new buildings. In the years from 1999 to 2000, the pavement and street lighting of the town center was redesigned in the historical style. The beekeeper's house is located in an area where the Amtsstrasse and Lange Strasse meet again as two semi-circular streets. There they form a small square with Ütschenpaul . It lies on the former Dammtor as southern outskirts where the increased Vorsfelder Werder the glacial valley of Aller drops. In addition to the beekeeping house, the executioner's house from 1607 in Meinstrasse is one of the oldest buildings in Vorsfelde.

architecture

Building floor plan around 1900

The three-storey half-timbered house was built in 1590 as a residential and storage building. It represents an early form of the arable bourgeois house and combines the Central German Ernhaus with the North German Hallenhaus . The left traufständige house consists of a two-storey residential area. The right side of the house is a gable-independent , three-storey building with a large hall on the ground floor. Above that there are two storeys with storage rooms, which are still indicated by the loading hatches in the facade. The hall was used as an entrance for carts, from which sacks of grain were pulled into the hatches of the grain store above. There are artfully decorated lugs on the facade . The projections of the building floors and the bay windows show rich wood carvings. The half-timbered structure is decorated with fan rosettes , which are typical for northern Germany in the 16th century. The building owner and year of construction can be found on a bar inscription in the gable of the house with Hans Kriegeisen and the year 1590. Colored house slogans are inserted into the facade beams , such as

In honor of God and his word, the house is in this place
I wish all those who know me to do what they treat me to
As much as I live I do not want the death of the sinner, but rather that honors convert and live piously

The architectural peculiarity of the beekeeper's house was already recognized at the end of the 19th century when it was added to the list of architectural and art monuments of the Helmstedt district in 1896 . The peculiarity of the building lies in the combination of two different house types and the fact that it is partially gable. In addition, there are the rich half-timbered decorations and the cantilevered building storeys, which are unique for Vorsfelde.

Bar inscription
Fan rosettes
The facade bay window
Fan rosettes on the bay window

history

The beekeeping house around 1895, still unrenovated and with an extension to the right

The beekeeping house around 1900

Side view of the beekeeper's house with Christmas decorations, 1985

The builder of the beekeeping house was the mayor of Vorsfeld and grain dealer Hans Kriegeisen I, who died of the plague a few years after it was built around 1595 . He belonged to a family of merchants who often provided the mayor and was first mentioned in 1483 with Hermann Kriegeisen. The war iron traded in grain, which they brought in carts from the Magdeburg Börde and the Altmark via Vorsfelde to Celle for shipment on the Aller. The beekeeper's house was built at the end of the 16th century, when the family was at its economic height and was followed by an economically difficult period with the tipper and wipper era . The building survived the major fires of 1604 and 1798, in which up to three quarters of the houses were destroyed.

After the classification as a monument in 1920 or 1930, a side barn extension from the 19th century was removed. In the 1930s, the preservation of the beekeeping house was in jeopardy, as repairs were necessary due to structural damage, the costs of which the owner could not bear. The Braunschweig museum inspector Paul Jonas Meier advocated the preservation of the building on the grounds that a loss would make the country grave accusations despite its economic hardships . In 1939 the building was restored, for which the owner received state subsidies. There were no concerns about the preservation of historical monuments against the expansion of the previous hall into a shop in 1956 . At times it was a branch of the Aller newspaper . In the shop there is a wooden pillar with the year 1667.

literature

Historic buildings as evidence of history in the Wolfsburg area. Town houses in: Historical-regional excursion map of Lower Saxony, sheet Wolfsburg. Erhard Kühlhorn, Hildesheim 1977, pp. 142–143.

Axel Hindemith: Beekeeping House withstood plague and fire in: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of May 16, 1986

Arnd Fritzemeier: The change in the image of the settlement in the 19th century in: History of Vorfeldes Volume 1 , Wolfsburg City Archives, Wolfsburg 1995, pp. 207–208 ISBN 3-929464-01-2