Lindenstrasse 5 (Gernrode)
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The house at Lindenstrasse 5 is a listed building in the district of Stadt Gernrode , part of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt, and belongs to the grounds of the Harzer watch factory . The house is known for the large Harzmichel cuckoo clock integrated into the northeast facade .
location
The house is located in Gernröder's old town on the south side of Lindenstrasse and is listed as a residential building in the local register of monuments.
Architecture and history
The two-storey half - timbered house was built around 1700. The ground floor is a massive construction. The windows are arranged asymmetrically. Both the fillers and the threshold are profiled, the beam heads rounded. The building is covered by a half-hip roof . The house was rebuilt in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 21st century the house was plastered.
On March 29, 1997, the Harz clock factory inaugurated a cuckoo clock integrated into the northeast facade. The clock has a height of 14.50 meters and a width of 7 meters, the diameter of the dial is 2.20. From 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., a large bird comes out of its door every 15 minutes. The aim was to register the clock as the largest cuckoo clock in the world in the Guinness Book of Records . In return, the cuckoo clock in Triberg in the Black Forest should be exceeded in size. Their size was given as 14 meters. After the clock was completed in Gernrode, it turned out that the Triberg clock actually measures 15.30 meters, which means that the record attempt in Gernrode had failed. Since then, the clock has been advertised as the largest cuckoo clock in the world outside of the Black Forest. A plaque near the clock explains the story.
On October 6, 2007, the cuckoo clock was given the name Harzmichel for its 10th anniversary .
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 123.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , editor Kulturverein Andreas Pooperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, page 76
- ↑ Picture of the board with the history of the clock
- ↑ Rosemarie and Gerhard Kellermann, Chronicle of the City of Gernrode , editor Kulturverein Andreas Pooperodt eV, Gernrode 2013, page 94
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 24 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 16.1" E