Jöckern House

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The Jöckern-Haus was a representative house built in 1550 and 1551, which was located in front of the walls of the Hanseatic city of Wesel . It was built by a wealthy merchant and lasted until 1892.

location

In the 16th century, the Hanseatic city of Wesel was essentially divided into the medieval old town and the Mathena suburb to the east , which together only took up part of today's inner city core. The old town and suburb were separated by a wall. The Jöckern house was located immediately east of the old town wall and immediately south of the fortifications of the suburb, i.e. directly outside the two walled city areas. In the immediate vicinity was the cross gate, which formed a southern entrance to the Mathena suburb. From today's perspective, it was located between Mauer-Viehor-Straße and Auf dem Dudel street, from where the property expanded in a southerly direction. Today's Kreuzstrasse also runs not far to the east .

history

Derick van Joeckeren (also van Jöckern ) acquired a garden plot in front of the city wall in 1544, on which the house named after his family was built a few years later. Van Joeckeren was a longtime member of the city council and alderman and had come as a merchant to a considerable fortune. On July 9, 1549, the city granted him special rights to the previous garden plot, which enabled him to start building the manor house there in the spring of 1550. The construction phase was completed in 1551. It was a residential building, but its size was roughly the same as that of the Wesel Herzogschloss in the previous century . The main house was equipped with a stair tower. Such a stair tower also existed at the historic town hall of Wesel , but not on any other building in the city. This tower was attached to the Jöckern house and was around 25 meters high. On the property there was also a garden shed, a barn and a stable as well as a garden area. Many contemporary representations of Wesel put the Jöckern house in the spotlight.

Due to the location directly outside of the old town and suburbs, access to the house and the effect of the house on the city fortifications became a matter of dispute. Initially, access to the house was through an entrance in the wall in the area of ​​the cross gate. When the cross gate was converted into a double gate system, this entrance was located between the two gates, which restricted access to the opening times of the city gate. Van Joeckeren received temporary permission to break a small gate of his own into the wall adjacent to the property. Later this gate was bricked up at the instigation of the city. The dispute over it escalated between van Joeckeren's daughter-in-law Gertrud Hoet and those responsible for the city. This is said to have resulted in 1596 that Hoet arrested a commissioner of the city in 1596 and used violence against him.

In the 17th century there were multiple changes of ownership and the structural condition of the building deteriorated significantly. Around 1700 the house came into the possession of the Prussian Freiherr von der Heiden, who was the commandant of the Wesel fortress and had the building expanded. Inside he set up a concert hall and a hall of mirrors . In 1776 the previous house came into the possession of the Klevisch-Märkische state estates and was converted into a penitentiary. From the early 19th century it was used as a military hospital by the Prussian military. The building was demolished in 1892.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Jöckern-Haus (zeitreise-wesel.de)
  2. ↑ Wesel through the centuries (zeitreise-wesel.de)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Announcements No. 67 (historical-vereinigung-wesel.de)

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 56.8 ″  E