Mahrenholzhof
The Mahrenholzhof is a listed former farm in the Magdeburg district of Fermersleben .
Architecture and history
The courtyard, for whose name the spelling Mahrenholtzhof is also common, is located on the eastern side of the former village of Fermersleben, facing the Elbe , not far from the Martin-Gallus Church in Mansfelder Strasse . From the originally very large courtyard, the historical manor house, a residential tower and the entrance to the courtyard have essentially been preserved. The farm was owned by the influential and wealthy Mahrenholtz family for over three centuries and is one of the few remaining evidence of the pre-industrial times in the district, which was later heavily influenced by industrial companies. The nearby Mahrenholtzstraße is named after the family.
The oldest part is the residential tower, which possibly dates from the 13th or 14th century. Other information suggests the year 1530. The tower has three floors, which can only be reached from the adjoining residential building to the east, which includes the tower. The tower is crowned by two staggered gable roofs , so that the tower has a gable on each side. The wall thickness of the tower, built on a rectangular floor plan, is 1.40 meters in the foot area and 0.80 meters in the upper area. The ceilings are designed as flat ceilings. There is a sundial on the southwest corner of the tower .
The manor house was built according to an inscription in 1695, but its core is possibly even older. It was built of bricks and is plastered. The manor house is divided into two parts, each with a gable roof, the gables of which face the street to the east. The two-story main section is directly adjacent to the tower. It has a diaphragm and is four-axis. To the east of the main part is the smaller, single-storey annex building with only two axes.
In 1878 the manor house was rebuilt. It got bigger windows. Inside, a large wooden spiral staircase leads from the hall to the upper floor. In 1916 the then owner Heinrich Böwe applied for permission to set up a cinematograph theater . In fact, a cinema with 347 folding seats was built for some time in a barn to the right of the gate passage . The manor house and tower were renovated at the beginning of the 21st century.
The entrance gate is to the south of the manor house. It was built from rubble stones and is also plastered. To the right of the gate entrance and above the entrance door there are inscriptions that refer to the Mahrenholtz family.
literature
- Folkhard Cremer, Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 599
- Heinz Gerling : Monuments of the City of Magdeburg , Helmuth Block Verlag, Magdeburg 1991 ISBN 3-910173-04-4 , page 32
- Kathrin Jäger: Magdeburg - Architektur und Städtebau , Verlag Janos Stekovics, Halle (Saale) 2001, ISBN 3-929330-33-4 , page 281
- List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 406
Individual evidence
- ^ List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg, page 406
- ^ Cremer, Dehio-Handbuch, page 599
- ^ Jäger, Magdeburg - Architecture and Urban Development, page 281
- ^ Gerling, Monuments of the City of Magdeburg, page 32
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 24.7 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 32.4 ″ E