Schwerin Mint

The former Schwerin Mint (also Minister Hotel ) in Schwerin , Schelfstadt district , Münzstrasse 8-10, is a monument in Schwerin . Today (2020) the building houses the regional church office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany with the Schwerin branch.

history

Münzstraße: the coin on the right

The two-storey plastered classicist 13-axis building with the two side wing structures has larger, arched entrances. There is a three-storey central risalit on the courtyard side .

The building was built around 1715 as a residential building according to plans by construction director Leonhard Christoph Sturm . In 1778 it was converted into a mint , or coin for short , with a rolling mill for the production of coins, and in the late 1820s the classicist facade was built under the reconstruction under the Schwerin architect Ludwig Bartning . Both Mecklenburg grand duchies had minted here until 1847, then in the Prussian mint.

From 1850 to 1858, the house was rebuilt again according to plans by Hermann Willebrand to become a ministerial hotel with ministerial apartments and with the installation of a two-storey ballroom facing the courtyard. The upper church council also received rooms. The fourth major renovation took place in 1928/29. In 1947 the regional bishop moved in. In 1990 the regional church received the building. Two side wings as two- or three-story new buildings followed.

Regional Church Office

The regional church office , the supreme administrative authority of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church), based in Kiel, has its branch in Schwerin.

Tilman Jeremias has been bishop in the district of Mecklenburg and Pomerania since 2019 .

literature

Horst Ende , Walter Ohle : Schwerin. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-363-00367-6 .
Jürgen Borchert: Schwerin as it was. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-0951-7 .

Web links

Commons : Münzstraße (Schwerin) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Isolde Küster: Leonhard Christoph Sturm. Life and achievement in the field of civil architecture in theory and practice. Dissertation Berlin 1942.

53.63111 11.41872Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '52 " N , 11 ° 25' 7.4" E

[1] Isolde Küster: Leonhard Christoph Sturm. Life and achievement in the field of civil architecture in theory and practice. Dissertation Berlin 1942.