Mühlenstrasse 20 (Quedlinburg)

House Mühlenstrasse 20

House Mühlenstraße 20 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . Today it is operated as the Hotel Domschatz .

location

It is located south of the Quedlinburger Schlossberg at the confluence of Rittergasse and Mühlenstraße . The house is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is listed in the Quedlinburg Monument Register. The Mühlengraben runs south of the house . To the east is the also listed building at Mühlenstraße 19 .

Architecture and history

The two-storey half - timbered house was built according to a building inscription in 1789. On its half-timbered facade there are pyramid beam heads that are otherwise only found on considerably older buildings. The eastern part of the ground floor is a massive construction.

On February 10, 1853, the Quedlinburg sculptor Richard Anders was born in the house . The building was known as Art # 169 at the time.

Today's building is an extensive reconstruction after extensive renovation. The building, originally built as a residential building, is now used as a hotel.

literature

• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 185.

Web links

• Homepage of the Hotel Domschatz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 147
2. ↑ Information on Richard Anders on quedlinburgweb

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '8.8 "  N , 11 ° 8' 7.8"  E