Kaiserhof (Quedlinburg)

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Kaiserhof in 2014
North gable
South side
Veranda on the east side

The Kaiserhof is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located east of the town's market square on the east side of the street Pölle at the address Pölle 34. South of the house, Gutsmuthsstraße joins the Pölle. It is registered as a restaurant in the Quedlinburg monument register.

Architecture and history

Originally there was an Kaiserhof inn on the site. 1630, the Council was treasurer Andreas Denne Fort owner of a located at this point brewing court. It was then acquired by the mayor Joachim Kels , who bequeathed it. In 1709 it was bought by the baker Moritz Thiele. Around 1804 an inn with a bathhouse was built in the property. In 1852 the innkeeper Knobe took over, later innkeeper Kolditz and then probably Christian Franke. The large three-story building had a gate entrance. The Kaiserhof restaurant was at the rear of the building. The house was demolished in 1894. In the area there was also the free house built by the von Thal family in the second half of the 16th century, which was also demolished in 1894.

Today's two-story, large building was built between 1894 and 1896 by master carpenter R. Rehbaum and master mason Timpe. Originally, the street Pölle was very narrow here, on the occasion of the new building the street was set back four meters. The property could only be reached from the west, from Pölle Street, but not from the east, from Damm Street. As early as August 1894, August Gebhardt and Max Behrens submitted a drawing for a 7-meter-long and 1.50-meter-wide footbridge from the dam over a ditch that existed at the time to the so-called garden island, the current location of the Quedlinburg public baths . From the garden island there was already a footbridge over the mill ditch to the grounds of the imperial court.

The house was designed in the style of a Renaissance palace , with echoes of both German and Florentine traditions. On the ground floor of the house, ashlar masonry on the north gable was used to incorporate parts of the former rear building on the property.

On the ground floor, three rooms were created with usable areas of around 60, 80 and 120 m², which were used as coffee and dining rooms. The smallest of the rooms was rebuilt at a later date and then served as access to the hall and cloakroom . Two more rooms with a total of about 100 m² served as a restaurant.

On the upper floor, a rococo- style hall with several side rooms was created, as well as another hall called the hall, which was used by the Freemason branch of the Independent Order of OddFellows . The inauguration of the hall and the establishment of the lodge took place on July 20, 1895. Access to the upper floor is via a wide staircase from the hallway on the ground floor.

Most of the rooms in the building were richly decorated with stucco , which has also been preserved in the Rococo hall. The frescoes are by Professor Bert Heller . The Masonic Hall is also there with its original painting.

A large hall extension was added to the east of the main building and was inaugurated in November 1895 with a concert by the infantry regiment Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. The operator was Robert Kunze, whose liquor license was extended to the hall. Access to the hall was through a separate entrance in the south half of the front of the house, which is no longer used today. From here a three-meter-wide, arched corridor leads directly to the hall. There is also access to the other rooms from here. This entrance was opened on November 25, 1895. On November 27, 1895, while trying to install large pictures in the Imperial Hall, a scaffold occupied by eight people fell over. Three people were seriously injured and had to be taken to hospital. The pictures could be pictures of Wilhelm I, Friedrich III. and Wilhelm II as well as the imperial eagle painted on red velvet . These were then located in the niches of the hall on the left. They were removed in 1945.

A wooden veranda with a length of 36 meters and a width of 4.60 meters is attached to the building on the east side . There was a paved area in front of the porch. In addition, there was a garden, a pastry shop and a bowling alley . The bowling alley ran in the garden towards Mühlengraben. Today, the changing rooms for the stage performers are located in the place of the pastry shop and bowling alley. A music pavilion with an area of ​​8 meters by 6.30 meters was located above the bowling alley. Next to the pavilion were the outdoor toilets for the guests in the garden . The house also advertised with three billiard rooms and four types of beer on offer. The garden was provided with a fountain and a dance floor .

On October 1, 1896, the seed dealers August Gebhardt and Julius Werner received a business license for the Kaiserhof restaurant. The restaurant was operated as a GmbH . The number of people who were allowed to be in the hall during events was initially limited by the police to around 800 in 1899. There were also detailed regulations for lighting and fire protection, as well as frequent complaints from the police and fire brigade.

Up until the First World War , a large number of festivities took place in the hall of the Kaiserhof. During the First World War, the Kaiserhof then served as a military hospital . The exact start of the resumption of catering operations is not known. At least Mrs. Hermine Gebhardt, née Sachtleben, after whom her husband August Gebhardt died on October 14, 1919, applied for a business license for the Kaiserhof restaurant on October 28, 1919.

The imperial court was also used to hold trade fairs and congresses. From 9 to 12 May 1925, the first Quedlinburg spring fair took place in the building with 90 exhibitors and 15,000 visitors. In the same year the 14th German Esperanto Congress was held on June 2nd and the annual festival of the Evangelical Church Music Association for the Province of Saxony on October 14th.

In 1926 a new bowling alley was built for 30,000 marks. The construction along the mill ditch was 44 meters long, 12 meters wide and had three long (30 meters) and three short (25 meters) lanes. The client for the new building, for which the music pavilion was demolished, was the Quedlinburg local branch of the German bowling association . The planning was done by the Schlamann company. The shell was completed on September 16, the inauguration took place on October 15, 1926. The business license was for Hermine Herzberg.

In the Kaiserhof, the Ballenstedter drama ensemble performed weekly, sometimes several times .

From August 1930, the tenant Paul Hoffmeyer had the business license for the Kaiserhof. In 1932 the Kaiserhof property was foreclosed to the Sparkasse Quedlinburg . The lease with Hoffmeyer expired on April 1, 1933, but was continued with widow Hoffmeyer.

The Halberstadt innkeeper Carl Baake acquired the Kaiserhof on July 1, 1935. He made modifications to the toilets and utility rooms. In 1937 the Braustübel and Old German Room were converted , based on ideas from the director of the Quedlinburg Theater , Ulrich Velten . The ceilings were lowered, the brewery tub received a rough plaster , the old German room a trowel plaster . There were of wrought iron from a blacksmith from the region Goslar purchased sconces made. The Quedlinburg blacksmith Wolfskamp, who was then located at Reichenstrasse 39 , made a large wrought-iron eagle with the Quedlinburg coat of arms, which was hung in the brewery room as a chandelier. Several leaded glass windows were supplied by the Quedlinburg glass painting company Ferdinand Müller . Ten motifs were created towards the Pölle, with a window on the courtyard side depicting the floral flora. The lettering Kaiserhof was affixed in 30 centimeter letters above the main entrance . New lights and a lantern attached to a wrought-iron wall bracket were attached to both sides of the entrance.

At the beginning of the Second World War , the Kaiserhof was confiscated on September 2, 1939 and used for mobilization . In the old German restaurant , however, an inn was still operated. Paul Trettin was the tenant from July 1, 1941 to 1946. No repairs were carried out on the building at the time of the confiscation. After the end of the war, the house was returned to Carl Baake. In 1946 he asked the building authorities in vain for timber and roofing felt to carry out urgent repairs. On July 1, 1946, Baake handed over the property to his grandchildren, the Schattenberg brothers. Eberhard Schattenberg received the business license. Since the name Kaiserhof was no longer politically opportune, it was changed to Sachsenhof restaurant . In 1946 the party congress for the forced unification of the SPD and KPD into the SED took place here for the region .

After the Second World War, the bowling alley was confiscated and used as a disinfection facility for the health sector . The steam required was supplied by the neighboring Quedlinburg public baths. The demolition took place in 1970/71.

The rococo hall on the upper floor was confiscated in 1946/47 to accommodate displaced persons . On the initiative of the Quedlinburg theater manager, the hall was then rented by the city of Quedlinburg for a chamber theater . The Schattenberg family bore the costs of the necessary renovations and the expansion of the former box room for residential use in the amount of 7,770.72 marks. The upholstered chairs were donated by theater fans at a price of 150 marks per piece. The hall had 111 seats. The theater opened on February 4, 1950 with Lessing's Nathan the Wise . The theater was used until October 2, 1994. The last performance was the play Adam and Eve.

The large hall was rented to the GHG household goods hall in 1954. The interior fittings and especially the wooden floor suffered from this use. In addition, rainwater penetrated through leaks on the roof, which severely affected the stucco ceiling.

The Sachsenhof was then sold to the state on January 1, 1959 and converted into a cultural center. The stucco was removed from many rooms in order to give the house a modern appearance. During the renovation work, the acoustics of the Great Hall suffered considerably , probably due to the removal of the boxes and the stucco. Therefore fabric cladding was installed later. The reopening took place on May 8, 1959. The name was changed to House of Working People. A short time later, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the GDR , the name was changed to Kulturhaus 10th anniversary on October 8, 1959 .

A large number of different events took place in the building. Including the Quedlinburg Music Days and a horticultural exhibition. In the period from 1966 to 1978 and 1999 to 2002 boxing competitions of the boxing club Traktor Quedlinburg took place here.

After the political turning point in 1989 , the Schattenberg brothers tried, albeit in vain, to transfer the imperial court back. The city of Quedlinburg invested heavily in the house to work off an accumulated maintenance backlog. The city later tried unsuccessfully to sell the building. The entire rear building is now administered and operated by the "Association for the Preservation of the Kaiserhof eV".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 35
  2. ↑ Christa Rienäcker, Quedlinburger Stadtgeschichte in Daten in Festschrift 1000 Years of Market, Minting and Customs Law Quedlinburg , Ed .: Stadt Quedlinburg, 1994, page 154
  3. ↑ Manfred Mittelstaedt, Quedlinburg, Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-560-8 , page 102
  4. ^ Association for the Preservation of the Imperial Court , Internet presence of the association.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 21.6 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 43.6"  E