Neustädter Kirchhof 11 (Quedlinburg)

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House Neustädter Kirchhof 11

Haus Neustädter Kirchhof 11 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the historic Quedlinburger Neustadt on the east side of the Neustädter Kirchhof and is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register as a residential building. To the north is Neustädter Kirchhof 10 , which is also a listed building .

Architecture and history

The two-storey half - timbered house originates from around 1680 or around 1820. It is simply designed. There are simple decorations on the frames of the windows and on the front door.

The current (as of 2015) owner acquired the building in 1992 and completely renovated it. The house was still inhabited until it was bought in 1992, but its state of preservation looked more like a demolished house. All windows were in a desolate condition, the interior walls were mostly damp, mold was sitting on the wallpaper, which had already fallen down, and on the walls.

On the ground floor, only a non-heatable toilet room and a laundry room were usable, albeit with some drawbacks. Another room served as a lumber room. The largest part of the ground floor was another room, the former use of which could not be proven. A layer of brick was laid on the rammed earth floor as the floor, the completely crooked outer walls were covered with clay, a completely eroded zinc pipe led part of the rainwater from the roof surfaces through this room to the street. The remaining rainwater dripped through drainage channels directly into the inner courtyard, which was between the two former houses. Tatters of linen hung down from the ceiling, which apparently once served as a holding system for a layer of straw packed under the ceiling as thermal insulation for the upper floor apartment. A stove must once have been connected to a completely soaked and rotten chimney draft.

On the upper floor there was a kitchen, a living room, two bedrooms and another room that only contained a free-standing bathtub, which could be filled with warm water via an ancient gas boiler.

The wall that separated the inner courtyard from the hallway was so bad that when the buyer pressed it once, despite the previous owner's warning, it fell down to the ground floor along with the window.

The attic was in just as bad shape. In part you could see through to the neighboring houses, there were no gable walls. After all, the neighbor on the right had already installed thermal insulation made of rock wool from its gable side. In contrast, the roof tiles and most of the timber and the rafters were in an astonishingly good condition.

The purchase contract for this house was concluded with a notary in Bad Harzburg , as the only notary in Quedlinburg at the time had waiting times of around half a year.

The ownership structure was clearly traceable in the land register , so that no third party claims for transfer back were to be expected. Only the exact property designation normally used in land registers with the name of the land, the parcel number and the exact size was missing; the street name, house number and markings on the land map were used here. The property - about 67 square meters in size - was measured and parceled out in 2004, and in 2005 the exact property designation was entered in the land register.

When renovating the building, aspects of monument preservation had to be taken into account. Shortly before the purchase of the property, the city of Quedlinburg had appointed "Neue Heimat Niedersachsen" as the redevelopment agency and commissioned them to monitor and oversee the reconstruction of old houses according to urban planning and monument preservation aspects, and to allocate funds from the "Urban Heritage Protection" funding program to distribute. One of the architects on the Neue Heimat list was commissioned to take stock and develop a renovation concept. The new owner was happy to have come across an architect who contributed his design plans for the interior fittings and the color scheme of the facade, so that it was possible to create two apartments in a very small space. For this it was necessary, among other things, for the client to remove the two chimneys in the house and install the central heating in the attic, which in turn initially met with considerable resistance from the chimney sweep, who was always asked about heating issues. He was of the opinion that the heating should be in the basement. Only after the client had provided evidence - with the support of a heating contractor from the old federal states - was he allowed to implement his ideas.

No heat-insulating glass panes were allowed to be used for the new windows, and so the client then had box-type windows built that reflected the four-wing division of the original state on the outside, the inner windows could be two-winged.

After the renovation measure had been coordinated and approved by the municipal building authority together with the office for monument preservation, the Neue Heimat and the state conservator, construction work could begin. A general contractor who carried out the masonry work himself commissioned the other handicraft businesses to carry out the other work.

The historic preservation workshops removed the old front door, more than a third of which was rotten and rotten, copied it to the millimeter and provided it with the old reconditioned wrought iron fittings and the original box lock with a wrought iron door handle. The door made in this way was reinserted into the building.

After the entire renovation had already been completed and the client was already living in the house, one day he received an invitation from the city of Quedlinburg. In addition to nine other builders, the mayor presented him with the renovation contract at a small ceremony, which authorized him to start the reconstruction of the building and which then also stipulated that subsidies from the monument protection program that he had already spent are available to him but with the condition that it only a very low set for the hiring Staffelmiete may ask, given the amount of funding a condition to which he could engage calm.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 21.3 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 0.3"  E