Okerburg

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The Okerburg 2012, the left part of the building dates from 1859.
Detail of the part built in 1905.
Rear view
The first Braunschweiger Quadriga with Brunonia probably shortly after its completion around 1862/63 in front of the south entrance of the foundry, the later Okerburg. Georg Ferdinand Howaldt in the middle in front of it.

The building, popularly known as " Okerburg ", is located at Hochstrasse 21 in Braunschweig . It was built in 1905 and was originally the workshop and casting hall of the Braunschweig ore foundry family Howaldt.

history

The listed building is located in Hochstraße on a corner plot with Howaldtstraße in the eastern ring area of Braunschweig. The southern end of the Hochstraße borders the intersection between Helmstedter Straße and Kastanienallee .

A casting hall built by Georg Ferdinand Howaldt in 1859 was already on the property . The simple, single-storey building with arched windows and a gable roof still forms the northern part of the Okerburg today. After the builder's death, his son Hermann Heinrich Howaldt took over the successor. After he died in 1891, Paul Rinckleben took over as tenant. Most recently he worked with Ferdinand Adolf Howaldt . However, neither of them prevented the company from going bankrupt in 1906.

architecture

Today's two-storey building was built in 1905 - with the exception of the part built in 1859 - and combines elements that can be found again in Dankwarderode Castle and Braunschweig Cathedral . It is a massive building made of quarry stone , which looks like a small castle due to the playful architecture with a striking tower , which - in connection with the nearby eastern Okerring - earned the nickname "Okerburg". The building was rebuilt several times and damaged in World War II , with wall paintings being destroyed.

After the bankruptcy, the association " Schlaraffia Brunsviga" bought the building in 1912 and changed it again both inside and outside. The Okerburg is still the headquarters of the Braunschweiger Schlaraffen today.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig , Part 2, p. 74
  2. ↑ Schlaraffia website for the "Castle"
  3. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Howaldt. In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 111.

Web links

Commons : Okerburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 18.5 ″  E