Kornmarkt 1, 2 (Quedlinburg)

Photo of the interior decoration in house Kornmarkt 1, during the demolition around 1900

The house Kornmarkt 1, 2 was a building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . It was demolished in 1900 and is considered to be one of the lost important buildings in the historic half-timbered town of Quedlinburg.

location

It was located north of the Marktkirchhof, west of the Kornmarkt 3 building, which today (as of 2014) has only survived as a ruin .

Architecture and history

The three-storey half - timbered house was built around 1525 and had 16 containers and 8 containers in the gable . Other information is based on 1618 as the year of construction. The house may have been remodeled this year. The half-timbered facade had a so-called column arrangement . There were struts on the first floor, the second floor was decorated with curved St. Andrew's crosses . There was a pointed neck of the ship on the threshold , the beam heads were provided with pear rod shapes. The wall paintings inside the house were remarkable.

In 1900 the house was demolished. Wall paintings and a corner console decorated with the motif of Adam and Eve , dating from around 1618, were recovered and found in the castle museum .

literature

• Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg's urban monument and its half-timbered buildings , Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-345-00233-7 , page 49.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 26.7 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 31.6"  E