Country house
The landscape house is in Aurich. It is the seat of the East Frisian landscape from which it takes its name. The angular building with a polygonal corner tower and closely lined up gables was built in the years 1898 to 1901 according to designs by the architect Hermann Schaedtler from Hanover in the neo-renaissance style .
Building history
The municipal association of the East Frisian landscape initially had its seat in a building on the Aurich market square. It was effectively dissolved during the Napoleonic period.
After the Congress of Vienna it was reconstituted and in 1819 acquired the house of the Aurich merchant, copper engraver and architect Conrad Bernhard Meyer . Meyer had designed this building himself with an attached stable and coach house . After the sale, Meyer built a new house on the south side of the harbor, which the landscape also bought in 1828 to use it for its own purposes.
The oldest part of the current building is the Ständesaal. When, after a tough struggle, the landscape received a new constitution ratified by the Kingdom of Hanover in 1846 , the estates decided to build a representative assembly room that same year . The foundation stone for this, which has been preserved to this day, was laid on Oll 'May 1847 at the site of a previously demolished farm building. In addition to the landscape hall, this building also contained a smaller room for the chancellery and a larger room for the registry and the library . Towards the end of the 19th century, the old landscape house reached its capacity limits. In addition to the landscape, the Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Brandkasse from 1781 and the Ostfriesische Sparkasse founded in 1871 (today Sparkasse Aurich-Norden ) were also housed there. Above all, its growth ensured that the landscape planned a spacious new building. The then President of the East Frisian Landscape , Count Edzard zu Innhausen and Knyphausen , recommended the architect Hermann Schaedtler from Hanover. He had already designed the new building of his headquarters, Schloss Lütetsburg (no longer preserved today) .
Today's south and east wings had the East Frisian landscape built in the neo-renaissance style in the years 1898 to 1901 according to Schaedtler's designs . The models were buildings from the Dutch Renaissance . The landscape hall from 1848 was integrated into the new building and the two adjoining rooms were redesigned into today's state rooms with large decorative windows.
The older wing of the building is the southern one, which was completed in 1899. In the years 1900 to 1901, the work on the east wing was completed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio: Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony . German art publisher; Edition: revision, greatly expanded edition. Munich, Berlin (January 1, 1992), ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 145.
- ^ Hajo van Lengen : Ostfriesische Landschaft , Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1990, ISBN 3-932206-16-9 . P. 14.
- ^ Gottfried Kiesow: Architectural Guide East Friesland - Natural and Cultural Landscape , German Foundation for Monument Protection, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-86795-021-3 . P. 203.
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 7 ° 28 ′ 50.1 ″ E