Marktstrasse 14 (Wernigerode)

View of the corner of Marktstraße 14 and Kanzleistraße in Wernigerode with the former post office

The house at Marktstraße 14 is a listed building in Wernigerode , Harz district , in Saxony-Anhalt . It is the former post office building of the city of Wernigerode, which is now used as a hotel.

location

Marktstrasse 14 is located in the southern part of Wernigerode's city center, approx. 150 meters from the market square on the west side of Marktstrasse at the corner of Kanzleistrasse.

Architecture and history

It is a complex of buildings from the 19th century that was built on the land of several historic half-timbered buildings that were previously there.

At this point there was originally a Countess-Stolberg house, which was left by Count Wolf Ernst zu Stolberg to the first wife of court preacher Wehler zu Stolberg (Harz) . Wehler sold it in 1640 to the pastor Primerius St. Sylvestri subject to a right of first refusal, then the property after various changes of ownership shines again returned to stately property to be, because on February 28, 1731 the house of Count is Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode under Reservation of the right of first refusal sold to Wilhelm Haberstroh. After further changes of ownership, it came to the economist Theodor Zeisberg, and after his death it was sold to the straw hat manufacturer Hahne by the guardian of his underage daughter. In 1925 the private property was sold to the German Reich ( Deutsche Reichspost ).

In 1888 the half-timbered house was demolished and by 1890 the building contractor August Niewerth built a new brick building, which he rented to the Reichspost. In 1929 the extension took place by adding a part of the building up to Kanzleistraße, which has the distinctive tower.

During the bombing raid on Wernigerode on February 22nd, 1944, the tower and the front of the building in particular were severely damaged. At that time, a British bombing group attacked the cities of Halle (Saale) and Magdeburg . On the return flight, the remaining explosive bombs were dropped on Wernigerode. According to contemporary statistics, this attack cost 166 people their lives. 112 houses were totally destroyed.

Until 1996, the post office used the entire building complex as the main post office. After the building was privatized, large parts of it were converted into a hotel and restaurant; only the counter hall was still used by the post office. In 2008, the post office gave up its location and moved to the Burgstrasse 19 branch .

In the local register of monuments , the house is listed as a monument under registration number 094 02497.

literature

• Ulrich Flachs (edited by Jörg Brückner ): On the history of the postal and telecommunications system in Wernigerode from its beginnings to 1945. (= Harz-Forschungen 25), Berlin and Wernigerode 2009, ISBN 978-3-86732-053-5
• Hermann Dieter Oemler : Fachwerk in Wernigerode , Oemler Verlag Wernigerode 1999, ISBN 3-9805751-1-X .

Web links

Commons : Postamt Wernigerode  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• House history Wernigerode - Marktstraße 14 ( Memento from September 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg von Gynz-Rekowski : Wernigerode in old views . 2nd Edition. European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 2001, ISBN 90-288-5165-8 , pp. 26-27 (first edition: 1991).
2. ^ Hermann D. Oemler : Wernigerode (time leaps) . Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-849-2 , p. 28-29 .
3. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 7.8 ″  E