Leisewitz House

The Leisewitz-Haus 2019: View from Auguststrasse (in the background the Aegidienkirche ).

View from the Aegidienmarkt

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The Leisewitz House in Braunschweig is a half-timbered house from the late 17th century, which was named after Johann Anton Leisewitz , the reformer of the poor welfare system in Braunschweig , who lived in it from 1788 until his death in 1806.

history

The 17-span-wide and two-storey high, eaves-facing house was built around 1680 in the street "Auf dem Bruche", later Wallstrasse 8. The area around the "Bruch" was a poor area at that time. Leisewitz came to Braunschweig in 1778 and acquired the house and its large garden ( insurance number 396) from the heirs of the coin accountant Kunz. On November 6, 1788 he moved in with his wife Sophie, b. Seyler (1762–1833), daughter of Abel Seyler and his wife Sophie Elisabeth, b. Andreae, entered the house and "exercised here in the midst of the poorer population his beneficial activity in the field of poor management". After Leisewitz's death, the building had been used as a construction warehouse since 1876. In 1882 a plaque was put up in honor of Leisewitz.

implementation

In 1976 the house on Wallstrasse was demolished to make room for a planned parking garage , which was completed in 1978. The house was then rebuilt on the bombing site Aegidienmarkt 12, on Auguststraße , at the corner of Spohrplatz, and has served as the parish hall of the Catholic parish of St. Aegidien since September 1979.

The “Aegidienkeller”, a house built by the Brunswick court builder Georg Christoph Sturm from 1754 to 1757 for the Angott wine merchant , stood where the Leisewitz house was rebuilt until it was destroyed in World War II . Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , one of the most important German writers of the Enlightenment , died in this house on February 15, 1781 . Before the “Aegidienkeller” was built at this point, the Altewiekrathaus , which was demolished in 1752 , was located there .

Structural environment

The Leisewitz-Haus belongs to the Aegidienviertel and is only a few meters away from the largest Catholic church in Braunschweig, the Aegidienkirche , with the garrison school and just a little further on is the Ottilienteil , where u. a. the building of the consumer association borders, again a few meters further, the former large orphanage BMV . A little further south is the house where the composer Louis Spohr was born .

literature

• Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 1: Inner City. Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen 1995, ISBN 3-927060-11-9 , pp. 326-327.
• NN: Leisewitzhaus. In: City Forum City of Braunschweig. 3 episode, Osterode / Harz 1979, pp. 218-219.
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Wallstrasse. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 241 .

Web links

Commons : Leisewitz-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information board ( BLIK )
• Information on current use, including photos, on plp-architekten.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 36 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 32.8"  E

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Meier : The street names of the city of Braunschweig. In: Sources and research on Brunswick history. Volume 1, Wolfenbüttel 1904, p. 106.
2. ^ Ludwig Hänselmann : Johann Anton Leisewitz and the poor relief in the city of Braunschweig. In: Workpieces. Studies and lectures on Braunschweig history. 2nd volume, Zwißler, Wolfenbüttel 1887, pp. 229-296.
3. ↑ Aegidienviertel information on braunschweig.de.