Jöcher's house
Jöchers Haus (also Jöchersches Haus ) was a baroque residential and commercial building on the market (house no. 2) in Leipzig .
At the end of the 17th century, the Leipzig merchant family Jöcher owned a house on the northeast corner of the market as an extension of the front of the old town hall , separated by the Salzgäßchen. The building, erected in 1695, was expanded in 1707 by the architect Johann Gregor Fuchs , giving it the architectural form that it retained for over 200 years. The five-story building had eight window axes. Narrow, square pilaster strips divided the window area. The roof carried a right-angled roof structure with four window axes, which was crowned by a balustrade with ornamental figures. The window decorations were kept sparse. The owner of the house at the time of renovation was Johann Christoph Jöcher.
The portal with the two female figures on the balcony was designed by Christian Döring around 1736 . At the beginning of the 20th century these were badly weathered and were recreated in 1930 by the Leipzig sculptor Johannes Hartmann .
Jöcher's house was destroyed in the bombing raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . Around 1950, the pavilion of the National Front , a one-story building for political propaganda , was built in its place, indented from the building line . It was also rebuilt after it burned down in the June 17, 1953 uprising .
With the construction of the four-wing residential complex on Sachsenplatz in the early 1960s, the Salzgäßchen was expanded like a square and the site of the Jöcherschen House was no longer built on. The square is used for events such as the Christmas market .
On May 6, 2011, the inauguration of the new Katharinum took place not far from the old location of the Jöcherschen House in Katharinenstrasse. The two female figures from Jöcher's house, who had survived the destruction of the house and had been restored, were revealed. They now adorn the entrance to the Leipzig Tourist Information Center on the north gable of the Katharinum.
Jöcher's house around 1860
with Koch's farm
and old scales
Jöcher's house in 1930
National Front Pavilion on the site of Jöcher's house in 1953
Broadened Salzgäßchen, the former location of Jöcher's house in 2014
Portal of Jöcher's house with the Döring figures around 1890
The figures from Jöcher's house at the entrance to the tourist information
literature
- Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony, issue 18, p. 487/88 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanatory text for a picture in the Leipzig City History Museum
- ^ Christoph Kaufmann: Hermann Walter photo studio. Leipzig 1918–1935. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2010, p. 186. ISBN 978-3-936508-61-1
- ^ The uprising in the Leipzig district
- ^ Ceremonial opening of the Katharinum ( Memento from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 28 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 31" E