Kalandhaus (Grimmen)

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Kalandhaus in Schulstrasse in Grimmen

The Kalandhaus (also known as the Old School ) is a listed late Gothic building on Schulstrasse in Grimmen .

architecture

The building was built around 1450 as a two-story brick building with a typical city gate gable. At the front there are two windows on the ground floor and three more symmetrically arranged windows on the upper floor. The gable is separated from the rest of the building by a cornice and is decorated with several plaster panels, some of which are nested in one another. Five small, also symmetrically arranged turrets form the transition to the gable roof at the front .

use

According to tradition, which used Kaland - Brotherhood of the building in Grimmen. A first clue can be found in a bond deed from 1505, which is now kept in the Stockholm City Archives. Further signs can be found in Protestant registers from 1536, in which the property of the brotherhoods is mentioned. From 1734 until 1848 the house was used as a school. With the new building in Norderhinterstrasse, the building is popularly known as the “old school”. From 1904 until the Second World War , the house was used for residential purposes, then as a kindergarten. It has served the New Apostolic Church since 1980.

A comprehensive restoration takes place in 1990.

Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '46.9 "  N , 13 ° 2' 26.7"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grimmen, Evangelical Church of St. Marien , website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on August 21, 2013.

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