Quedlinburg council scales

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Kornmarkt House 7
View of Kornmarkt 7 in 1986

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

location

It is located north of the town's market square at Kornmarkt 7 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . It is registered as a merchant's house in the Quedlinburg monument register.

Architecture and history

The three-story half - timbered house was built according to a building inscription on the threshold of the first floor in 1690 on the site of the former council scales. The former council scales were first mentioned in a document in 1483 and rebuilt in 1562. The current building was used as a council scale until 1850. The living room of the weighing master and the weighing hall were on the ground floor. The master builder was the master carpenter Martin Lange . The inscription M. MARTIN LANGE, decorated with a coat of arms and hatchet, refers to him . Z. The symmetrical five-axis half-timbered facade shows typical decorations on the thresholds. One about the central axis rises Zwerchhaus . The names of the town builders C. Michael Lüntzel and C. Röttiger Mettgau, who were commissioned by the council as aediles to supervise the new building, as well as the names of the council members Eckhardus Salfeldt and Johann Andreas Laeder can be found on the beams on the ground floor .

The framework was rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century. The position of the stands was changed. A stand rhythm was created from narrow wall and wide window fields. Thinner stands were used and the window parapets were moved downwards. Projecting truss parts were removed, in keeping with the taste of the time. The facade was then plastered. It was structured through the use of cornices .

In the 19th century, a shop facade in a classicist style was built on the ground floor . The front door and stairwell also date from the 19th century.

In the 1970s, defective downpipes caused plaster to fall off, exposing the timber-framing and especially the decorative timber-framing of the 17th century, as well as wood damage. In 1975, the Quedlinburg state building inspectorate submitted an expert report on the condition of the building. The appraisal came to the conclusion that the condition was so bad that it would have to be demolished down to the ground floor and then rebuilt. The appraisal was confirmed by Polish experts from the State Conservation Workshops of Poland (Pracownie Konserwacji Zabytków, PKZ). In accordance with the statement of the expert opinion, a new building with a wooden facade in a half-timbered style was planned. In a statement, the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments questioned the report and recommended that the statement be checked by a structural engineer experienced in the preservation of monuments . However, the recommendation was not followed.

In 1978 work began by PKZ, Thorn division . During the gutting process, it was found that the truss was in good condition, apart from areas behind the downspouts, with few repairs required. Nevertheless, the building was largely renovated using massive construction methods, as the employees of the Polish PKZ were to be employed in accordance with the contract and no other project had been prepared. This resulted in unnecessary losses of historical building fabric. Unofficially, however, it was possible to agree with the site manager that the original historical facade would be retained and anchored on the new building. Considerations to restore the facade to the original condition of 1690, with a row of studs , continuous parapet wood, brick infills and loading doors, were ruled out due to the problems on the construction site, but also the insufficient building research .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 146
  2. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 111
  3. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 150
  4. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 43, 111
  5. ↑ a b c d Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 110
  6. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 106 f.
  7. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 109 f.
  8. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 743

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 34.8 ″  E