Jenisch House (Hamburg)

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Elbe front of the Jenisch House

The Jenisch-Haus (spelling Jenisch Haus ) is a classicist country house in Klein Flottbek , a district in western Hamburg that allows a wide view of the Elbe at Teufelsbrück across a park . The Museum for Art and Culture on the Elbe is run as a branch of the Altona Museum and has representative rooms on the ground floor. On the upper floors, changing exhibitions present topics from art and cultural history, particularly from the 19th century.

The Jenisch House

Lower Elbe Salon
White hall

The Jenisch House was built between 1831 and 1834 by the architect Franz Gustav Forsmann on behalf of Martin Johann Jenisch the Younger . Jenisch had been senator and president of the building deputation since 1827. After the Hamburg fire of 1842, he played a major role in planning the reconstruction. In 1828 he bought the Flottbeck property from Baron Voght , who because of his age could no longer manage his estate in Klein Flottbek as actively and had also got into certain financial difficulties. In 1829 he had Flottbek elevated to the status of a chancellery by the Danish king .

Forsmann, who was an employee of the building deputation, submitted the original drafts to the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel , who designed a completely new country house that was oversized for Jenisch. Forsmann then revised his draft and adopted some of Schinkel's suggestions. These drafts are now in the Hamburg State Archives .

The building consists of a compact cube that is sparsely decorated with classical elements. The most striking decorations are the Doric portico on the Elbe side and the delicate railing above the eaves . The division of the house - although built for a citizen - is still entirely in the tradition of the princely country palace. The large representative and social rooms are located on the ground floor, which is also the floor with the highest ceiling height. The vestibule with the staircase reaching through all floors, the dining room in white and the Elbe salon facing the river are to be emphasized here.

museum

In 1936 the Jenisch House became a museum. Inside, the house was converted into a museum for Hanseatic living culture in 1955 . Today it is a branch of the Altona Museum , since 2007 under the direction of the cultural scientist Nicole Tiedemann-Bischop . The Jenisch Haus has been part of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation since January 1st, 2008 .

The second floor once housed the private living quarters of the senator and his family. These museum rooms now show exhibits on the home decor of the past centuries. The top floor and the floor with the lowest room height was originally reserved for the servants, today changing exhibitions take place here.

Jenischpark

The surrounding park was laid out as a rural farm by Caspar Voght around 1800 ; today's 42-hectare Jenischpark formed his parc du midi and was redesigned in 1828 by Johann Heinrich Ohlendorff after it was acquired by Jenisch . The neo-baroque Kaisertor (built in 1906, restored in 2005) leads from the Elbchaussee into the park, in which, in addition to the Ernst-Barlach-Haus (built in 1961 according to plans by Werner Kallmorgen ), the "Eierhütte" (replica of the "Mooshütte" of approx. 1790 with the gable inscription Amicis et quieti from Voght , dt. To friends and leisure [dedicated] ). Parts of the park, especially the wet meadows of the Flottbek , have been under nature protection as the Flottbektal nature reserve since 1982 . In 1927 the private park was leased by the city of Altona , acquired in 1939 and thus made accessible to the public.

Panorama of the park and the Jenisch house

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • May 16, 2017 - November 12, 2017: Ernst Eitner . Monet of the North
  • November 27, 2016 - April 23, 2017: Leonore Mau . From Hamburg into the world
  • April 24, 2016 - October 23, 2016: Salon acceptable. Women in the Heine period
  • November 21, 2015 - March 28, 2016: Theater on the threads. Marionettes, sets, production, play

literature

  • Jan Vahlenkamp: The Senator's Villa . In: Hamburg History Live 2019/01, pp. 120-137, ISBN 978-3-946677-42-0 .
  • Wolfgang Kemp : Hansen's country houses in Altona; their spatial organization , in Bärbel Hedinger (ed.): CF Hansen in Hamburg, Altona and the Elbe suburbs , Munich, 2000, pp. 40–42, ( pdf , 2 MB, University of Heidelberg).

Web links

Commons : Jenischpark and Jenisch-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Engler: Jens Eitner: The Monet of the North. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Hajo Schiff: Social hot spots in the camera focus: A world that doesn't even exist . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on May 13, 2017]).
  3. ^ Exhibition in the Jenisch House: Sissi also raved about Heinrich Heine - WELT. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Theater on threads, museum for everyone - WELT. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 56 ″  E