Mummental 2 (Quedlinburg)

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Mummental 2, east gable
South side

House Mummental 2 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the eastern part of the historic Quedlinburg old town, south of the Mühlgraben on the west side of the Mummental street. The building is registered as a school in the Quedlinburg monument register.

Architecture and history

Boys and girls school of the old town Heiliggeisthospital; 1869, partially plastered, originally two-storey quarry brick building with a length of 9 + 2 axes in strictly regular, late classicist forms with an entrance and staircase projection to the east of 5 x axis width, in 1892 expansion to the west by 5 x axes with staircase and a total increase in the quarry stone building with half-timbered upper floor In the sense of the typical country house style of the time, as a result of this, a mighty basement building with a total of 16 (14 + 2) axes length in the solid floors and 42 containers (18 x axes) in the 2nd half-timbered upper floor with hipped roof closure of urban spatial dimensions In 1990 as a Mummental primary school in continuous use, then continued to be used as a community college, district library and social welfare office, in 2004 the community college was closed due to static construction defects. , 2011 Relocation of the district library to the Carl Ritter educational center (see Heiligegeiststr. 8, 8a), 2019 planning for static consolidation and conversion to a residential building; the former St. Spiritus Hospital boys and girls school, with its 135-year use as a basic and adult education center building, is one of the testimonies to the history of education in the World Heritage City of Quedlinburg

Description of the building: Mixed construction of a monolithic core structure with a basement with a half-timbered upper storey, the eastern gable side, three-storey quarry stone staircase construction set off like a risalit, partly plastered, the central portal axis additionally as a central risalit with a gable roof and trussed ornamental trusses as a vertical component, two lateral symmetrical portal porches with strong plastered porches Two-phase main structure to the west (9 + 5 axes) as a fourteen-axis, three-storey extension, the second upper floor tied in half-timbered with profiled beam heads and lateral struts as a half man, the roof is a purlin roof with a triple chair, the window axes in the solid floors consistently with segmental arches executed, in the half-timbered upper floor as standing rectangular formats; the interior is developed with two hips with a central corridor, to the north-eastern, two-lane straight solid staircase with a continuous central cheek wall and intermediate landings, there is a second massive access staircase with a two-way straight staircase with intermediate landings on the 4th extension axis from the west; this staircase is accessed from the south through a double-winged wooden gate with skylight opened up.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Hendrk Kranert, Volkshochschule immediately closed in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , published online on March 17, 2004
  2. ^ Maria Böhme, 50,000 media are moving to Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, published online on March 16, 2011

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 38.7 ″  E