Ledenhof
The Ledenhof (formerly also Alte Münze ) is a historic building in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony . In the Middle Ages it was the seat of the patrician and noble family von Leden . From the once large courtyard location The seven are stone factory and a great hall with staircase tower received. The Ledenhof has been the seat of the German Peace Research Foundation since 2002 .
history
The name of the Ledenhof near the baroque Osnabrück Castle and the late Gothic Katharinenkirche was first mentioned in 1499. The wine merchant Johann Leden had settled on the edge of the old town of Osnabrück in the middle of the 14th century and built a half-timbered house and a wine store there. The third Heinrich von Leden, to whom the German King and later Emperor Maximilian I granted far-reaching privileges in 1499, built a palace on the remains of this house . In the late 18th century, the Ledenhof was still a closed complex around a rectangular inner courtyard with a gatehouse, as the Du Plat'sche map of the city from 1787 shows. There was probably also a coin workshop in the Ledenhof. The term Alte Münze was used for the courtyard until the first decades of the 20th century; Only Rudolf vom Bruch brought the name Ledenhof back to mind with his work The Knights Seats in the Principality of Osnabrück , published in 1930 . In the 19th century the Ledenhof had changing owners. Parts of the property belonged to the manufacturer Heinrich Wilhelm Storck, while others were owned by the Counts of Münster until 1781 . In the late 19th century, Friedrich August Koch and Ernst Conrad Kromschröder used the Ledenhof for business. The Ledenhof has been owned by the city of Osnabrück since 1930. During the Second World War and in the post-war years, the existing buildings of the Ledenhof threatened to fall into disrepair. Between 1964 and 1976 the stone works and the hall were extensively renovated. The city of Osnabrück was honored with the Europa Nostra Medal in 1980 for the exemplary, listed restoration of the Ledenhof . The Ledenhof then housed the music library before the German Foundation for Peace Research took its seat there in 2002.
Building parts
Stone work
Bedeutendster component of the Ledenhofs is the stonework of rubble masonry with a saddle roof. It is a special feature of medieval buildings in Osnabrück. The stone work of the Ledenhof, which is dated to the 14th century, has external dimensions of 9.15 by 9.13 meters. Unlike other stone works, it was not a weir storage facility, as can be deduced from the structural shape, but served as a warehouse. The entrance to the basement, which does not have a vault like the weir store, is at ground level and was therefore more easily accessible than the weir store with high access, which was easier to defend. Originally the stone works did not have a chimney. In the 15th century, the stone works were increased to a keep with seven floors and hatches on the south side. The building owner of the palace, the third Heinrich von Leden, had an entrance to the palace created and a secret place , a toilet, installed.
Hall
The hall with two ornamental gables was built by Heinrich von Leden, the third bearer of this name in a row, in the 15th century as a representative residence. The ground floor consists of a four-meter-high deele (hall), 9.64 by 8.18 meters, which served as a kitchen-living room, with a chamber compartment of 3.84 by 8.18 meters behind it, which is accessible through two doors next to the fireplace is. The chamber compartment, die kameren boven dem kelder , was probably the bedroom of Heinrich von Leden and his wife Margarete von Bar. A staircase led to the upper floor with the ballroom and hall chamber, which was only built in the late 16th century through the addition of a polygonal stair tower with a spiral staircase Oak wood has been replaced. The ballroom with rich ornamentation on the beamed ceiling had access to an outside gallery on the east side. The gallery was abandoned when the stair tower was added. From this floor there was access to the stone structure. The hall had a decorative painting on plaster made of diamond-shaped bands in white and yellow, which was renewed during the renovation.
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The name Ledenhof was transferred to the area on which the Marienstätte Monastery had stood at the time when the courtyard was known as the Alte Münze . An underground car park right next to the Ledenhof now also bears the name Ledenhof. The name Alte Münze was retained in a street name on Ledenhof.
literature
- Roswitha Poppe: The Ledenhof in Osnabrück . In: Heimatkunde des Osnabrücker Land in individual examples , Issue 3, H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1978, ISBN 3-87898-127-9
- Rudolf vom Bruch: The knight seats in the Principality of Osnabrück . H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-87898-384-0 (first edition 1930)
Web links
- Photo of the Ledenhof on osnabrueck.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The construction in the style of the Weser Renaissance was completed in 1588
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 20.5 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 42.5 ″ E