Marktkirchhof 6 (Quedlinburg)

Marktkirchhof House 6

Marktkirchhof 6 around 1900

The house Marktkirchhof 6 is a Grade II listed building in the town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the historic Quedlinburg old town, north of the city's market square. The building registered as a merchant's house in the Quedlinburg monument register is located on the south side of the Marktkirchhof. To the east is the also listed building Marktkirchhof 5 , to the west is the house Marktkirchhof 7–9 .

Architecture and history

The three-storey half - timbered house was built according to a building inscription in 1577 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The richly decorated renaissance facade shows St. Andrew's crosses in the corners , an early appearance of this decorative form for Quedlinburg. The appearance of the house is in a special way through with hatch provided Zwerchhaus coined. On the threshold there are cylinder beam heads with notch-cut motifs . In addition, there is the inscription ANNO CHRISTI 1577 MERTEN HEVENER IN THE POWER OF GOD I HAVE IT GESTALT .

The ground floor is a massive construction. In the Baroque period around 1720, the doors and windows of the basement were renewed. In the building there is a historical rotating tree for pulling up loads.

literature

• Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 754.
• 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 , page 175

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 145
2. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 59
3. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 44

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 23.7 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 32.4"  E