Market 6 (Johanngeorgenstadt)

The house at Markt 6 is the only remaining house on the historic market square of Johanngeorgenstadt , Erzgebirgskreis , in the Free State of Saxony .

location

The Markt 6 building is located on the southeast corner of the market square in the old town of Johanngeorgenstadt at the beginning of Karlsbader Straße .

Architecture and history

It is a three-storey corner building that was erected immediately after the city fire of Johanngeorgenstadt on August 19, 1867.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited Johanngeorgenstadt in August 1785, coming from Karlsbad in Bohemia , and stayed with the post office and mayor Johann Friedrich Baumann, who owned a spacious house on the market square, which at the time served as a post house where travelers could stay overnight. Exactly where it was was not known for a long time until it was found out that he stayed in the previous building of today's house at Marktplatz 6.

The postal history of Johanngeorgenstadt shows that the successor to the above-mentioned postmaster Baumann, who died in 1797 , was the glazier August Heinrich Gruner, who had previously temporarily supported the sick postmaster and his wife in handling the postal business. A directory of all the houses in Johanngeorgenstadt and their owners and residents shows that Gruner lived in the house of the postmaster Baumann's widow on the market in 1800. The building thus continued to serve as a post office even after Baumann's death. The new postmaster Gruner bought the house a short time later, and it remained the Johanngeorgenstadt post office without interruption until 1855. In August 1867, the great city fire destroyed all the houses on the market, including the former post office. From the ashes, a new building emerged at the same place, which survived the demolition of the old town of Johanngeorgenstadt from 1953.

Until the 1980s, a now plastered door frame with initials and the year reminded of the previous building of this house and its first owner, the exiles and mayor Johann Löbel . He had previously been a mountain master in the Bohemian town of Platten and had a great personal share in the founding of Johanngeorgenstadt. In contrast to the other exiles who were given a building site by drawing lots in 1654, Johann Löbel was allowed to choose one himself. He chose the southeast corner of the market, from where the road leads to Platten and Karlsbad. The first council meetings took place in the building, which was completed within two years, since 1656. a. Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony stayed here twice as a guest. For this, Löbel was granted tax exemption on his house in 1665. When he died the following year, the building became the property of his son, mountain master Abraham Wenzel Löbel . At the age of 76, he was buried on January 6, 1707 in the church of Johanngeorgenstadt . The building now owned by his widow was bought by his grandson Johann Christian Löbel, who became postmaster in 1721, which moved the Johanngeorgenstadt post office into his house. In 1730, Löbel had to resign due to irregularities and moved away. His house initially remained in the possession of the Löbel family until they decided to sell it to the shift and deputy miner Immanuel Heinrich Krippner, who is still named as the owner in 1769. But shortly afterwards the house changed hands again. The city judge and tax collector Johann Friedrich Baumann acquired the stately building. Since 1771 he worked as a postmaster, and so the former Löbelhaus became a post office again and thus in 1785 the quarters for Goethe. In 1867 the former Löbelhaus fell victim to the great city fire.

In 1911, the hotel owner and city councilor Carl Truckenbrodt installed a bronze plaque in the hall of his “Hotel de Saxe” (since 1914 “Sachsenhof”) on the market square of Johanngeorgenstadt, in order to permanently remember Goethe's stay . This shows the portrait of Goethe and an extract from the letter he wrote to Charlotte von Stein from here on August 18, 1785 . As a visible sign of his loyalty to the Erzgebirgsverein , Carl Truckenbrodt presented the plaque to the Johanngeorgenstadt branch association with the stipulation that if his hotel should no longer be used as such, it should be placed in a suitable place as a memorial for the future. When the Sachsenhof building had to be cleared in the summer of 1953 and was demolished a little later, the Goethe plaque was secured and placed in the stairwell of the new main post office in the Neustadt, which was inaugurated in November 1954.

literature

• Manfred Blechschmidt : Goethe with us in Johanngeorgenstadt and Schneeberg: How it was and how it could have been. Aue: Rockstroh, 2006.
• Jörg Brückner : Riddle about Goethe's quarters solved. Enlightened for the 345th day of the city's foundation. In 1785, Dichterfürst lived in a building that has been preserved to this day. In: Free Press. Local editions Aue and Schwarzenberg, 37 (1999), No. 46.
• Kurt Burkhardt: Goethe visited Johanngeorgenstadt 200 years ago. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 7 (1985), H. 5, P. 128-130.
• Friedrich H. Hofmann : Postal history of Johanngeorgenstadt. With a short description of the city's history. Schwarzenberg 1983. DNB 850003725

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Brückner : Riddle about Goethe's quarters solved. Enlightened for the 345th day of the city's foundation. In 1785, Dichterfürst lived in a building that has been preserved to this day . In: Freie Presse , local editions Aue and Schwarzenberg, 37 (1999), No. 46.

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 42.3 "  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 45"  E