Krummel house

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Krummel house around 1900
Krummel House 1951
Krummel House 2012
Allegorical representation: God loves the city for justice with the depiction of a city view, probably Wernigerode

The Krummelsche Haus is a listed building in Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the eastern part of Wernigerode city center on the south side of Breiten Straße at the address Breite Straße 72 .

Architecture and history

The three-storey baroque half-timbered house was built in 1674. The building owner was the grain dealer Henricus Krummel , also known as Heinrich Grumel, whose name is inscribed next to Anna Borchert . Civil coats of arms are shown next to the names. In older publications, the building is also given as Frankenfeld's house with the number 408 on Breiten Straße or Krummel-Frankenfeld's or Gerlitz's house .

The upper floors protrude. The beam heads are designed with face masks shown as grimaces, the filler wood as sticks. The facade is richly decorated, the compartments below the windows of the upper floors are decorated with allegorical reliefs. On the top floor are the depictions of the continents Europe and Asia as well as the elements air and earth and on the far right the religious theme Thuet Busse . On the middle floor are the depictions, God loves the city for justice , probably with a depiction showing the city of Wernigerode, the incorruptible judge , Africa , human mortality and America . The two continents, however, were already swapped in relation to the labeling when they were originally inserted. Around 1810 a display window was installed in the middle window axis on the ground floor.

In 1875 the storage windows and a door originally located on the second floor were removed and replaced by windows. A shop in the neo-baroque style was added on the ground floor , the facade of which is based on the design of the rest of the facade. The carving work was carried out by Gustav Kuntzsch . The display window was removed. The change in the facade was criticized by the public at the time. Later owners of the house tried several times between 1906 and 1952 to sell the remarkable facade of the house, but this was prevented. Due to the strong ornamentation of the facade, which hides the half-timbered construction, it was incorrectly assumed in the past that the building was not a half-timbered house.

In the local register of monuments , the house is listed as a residential and commercial building under registration number 094 03267.

literature

  • Ute Bednarz, Helga Neumann in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 1007.
  • Ursula Thiemer-Sachse: America - to the continental allegories at the Krummel'schen house in Wernigerode am Harz. In: Announcements 2002 of the Carl Justi Association for the Promotion of Artistic Cooperation with Spain, Portugal and Ibero America , Dresden 2002, p. 3 ff. ( Digital library , accessed on March 7, 2016).
  • Hermann Dieter Oemler, Fachwerk in Wernigerode , Oemler Verlag, Wernigerode 1999, ISBN 3-9805751-1-X , p. 40 f.
  • Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Province of Saxony, Seventh Book, District Wernigerode , Ed .: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt, Verlag Otto Hendel Halle an der Saale 1883, reprint Naumburger Verlagsanstalt 2001, ISBN 3-86156 -059-3 , p. 134 ff.

Web links

Commons : Krummelsches Haus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Province of Saxony, Seventh Book, District Wernigerode , Ed .: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt, Verlag Otto Hendel Halle an der Saale 1883, reprint Naumburger Verlagsanstalt 2001, ISBN 3- 86156-059-3 , page 134
  2. ^ Karl Otto Hartmann: The art of architecture in its development from prehistoric times to the present; an introduction to history, technology, etc. Style . C. Scholtze, Leipzig 1910, OCLC 2832621 , p. 148 ( online ).
  3. ^ Hermann Dieter Oemler, Fachwerk in Wernigerode , Oemler Verlag, Wernigerode 1999, ISBN 3-9805751-1-X , p. 40.
  4. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 2363

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 24.5 ″  E