Meyerfeldtsches Palais
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The Meyerfeldtsche Palais , also known as the Swedish Government Palace , is a building from 1730 in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund , at Badenstrasse 17.
history
The building was erected between 1726 and 1730. In front of it there were four gabled houses on the now joined property, which were destroyed during the siege of Stralsund by the "Great Elector" Friedrich Wilhelm in 1678.
After five years of belonging to Denmark, Stralsund returned to the Kingdom of Sweden through the Peace of Frederiksborg in 1720 . Since the Swedes only belonged to Western Pomerania and Rügen , they had to redefine their seat of government, which had been in Szczecin . The choice fell on Stralsund.
Cornelius Loos , a Swedish architect who had already been entrusted with the development of the Stralsund city fortifications , was commissioned with the construction by Count Johann August Meyerfeldt, who had been the Swedish Governor General since 1713 . Meyerfeldt paid for the building from his own fortune. In 1730 the building was opened as the office and residence of the governor general. A leather-bound house book written by the architect, containing three floor plans of the house and describing the building in detail, is now kept in the Stralsund city archive.
Of the 49 rooms in the building, eight were used for residential purposes by the Meyerfeldt family. The remaining rooms were used for official purposes as well as for representation and as living quarters for the staff. There was a bakery with a pastry shop, a brewery, a large kitchen and two storage rooms, as well as several pantries. The house was the first building in Stralsund to have a mansard roof.
In 1734 the Governor General Axel von Löwen moved his residence from the "Meyerfeldtschen Palais", which was still used as an official residence, to his house called " Löwensches Palais ".
Many high-ranking visitors to the city were accommodated in the house. On October 6, 1797, the ceremony after the wedding of Princess Friederike Dorothea von Baden with the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf took place here. The king himself was represented by Baron von Taube, who said yes for his king at the wedding ceremony in the Nikolaikirche . Then the wedding procession went through Badenstrasse, which is covered with blue cloth, to the Swedish government palace for the celebration.
The Swedish king bought the building for 12,300 thalers in 1802 from the heirs of the late Count Meyerfeldt. For a short time, from 1802 to 1803, it was the seat of the Higher Appeal Court for the Swedish fiefdoms in the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation . In 1835, at the request of the city council, the very spacious entrance stairs that protruded into the street were reduced to their present size.
The building was damaged in the bombing raid on Stralsund on October 6, 1944 and repaired in 1956. The music school had already moved into the basement in 1952. Today the renovated building is the seat of the municipal building authority. The house, which is under monument protection, is part of Schwedenstrasse , a holiday route . It stands in the core area of the UNESCO World Heritage " Historic Old Towns Stralsund and Wismar ". It is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Stralsund with the number 62.
Web links
- Literature about Meyerfeldtsches Palais in the state bibliography MV
- Description of the Meyerfeldtschen Palais by Cornelius Loos from 1730 in the Stralsund City Archives, signature Hs 473
- Information on Badenstrasse 17 at www.bau.hs-wismar.de (University of Wismar)
Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 53 ″ N , 13 ° 5 ′ 37 ″ E