Löwensches Palace
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The Löwensche Palais is a commercial building from 1995 in the city center of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund , on the corner of Ossenreyerstraße and Heilgeiststraße .
history
The current building got its name from the previous building. This was built in 1734 on behalf of Stralsund's mayor David Ike (1683–1755). After his death, the governor-general of Swedish Pomerania , Axel Graf von Löwen (1686–1772), bought the building. He had an extension to the main building built in place of the apartment he had bought.
The Governor General, who previously had his office and residence in the Meyerfeldtschen Palais , now moved into the building named after him “Löwensches Palais” as his residence; The “Meyerfeldtsche Palais” remained the official seat.
This is where von Löwen also collected his extensive art and literature holdings, which he bequeathed to the city of Stralsund in his will and which today, if still available, are kept in the cultural history museum and in the Stralsund city archive .
After Axel von Löwen's death, Otto von Löwen had an extension built between 1786 and 1787. On June 9, 1797, the Swedish von Löwen family sold the house to the “Resource Society” founded in 1796 for 15,500 Reichstaler. This renamed the building in "House of Resource". The society organized balls and concerts and saw their house as the cultural center of the city. Some rooms were rented out, for example in 1798 to the Masonic Lodge .
During the French occupation in 1807 soldiers were billeted. In 1811 the resource company reopened its house after extensive renovation.
The building was destroyed in the bombing raid on Stralsund on October 6, 1944 . A parking lot was initially created in the open space, followed by a fruit and vegetable market in the 1950s. On October 5, 1995, the new commercial building was opened for 35 million German marks . The architecture is only vaguely reminiscent of the previous building. After a few years of existence, the contracts with the tenants were terminated in 2011 in order to redesign the building; this has not happened to date (as of October 2015).
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Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 51 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 23 ″ E