Ordinance house
The so-called Ordonnanzhaus or Steinhaus (Low German: Steenhus ) in Brandenburg an der Havel is a culturally and historically significant town house. It is one of the oldest secular buildings in the Mark Brandenburg region and is currently part of the seat of the city government of Brandenburg an der Havel: The Ordonnanzhaus is the official seat of the mayor of Brandenburg an der Havel.
Emergence
The oldest, ie western, parts of the Steenhus or stone house in the old town of Brandenburg were built around the year 1300–1310. It can be assumed that it is one of the oldest stone profane buildings in the Mark. It is not certain whether other stone houses, possibly of a similar size, existed in the two cities of Altstadt or Neustadt Brandenburg at the time of its construction . Bäckerstraße 14 ( formerly the Preussischer Hof, later the Deutscher Hof ) or the Gothic House could also be considered . What is certain is that this one has been preserved.
Surname
The name Ordonnanzhaus derives from the fact that the building served as quarters for the orderlies of the Prussian king in the 18th century .
shape
In its Gothic architectural style, it is based on the town houses of the North German Hanseatic cities . Especially the spruce with six large half-columns Northeast gable between which Gothic pointed arch - iris record nine subsequently incorporated window refers to Hanseatic tradition. The two-storey house is facing its postal address Schusterstrasse 6 at the gable end. Inside, ceilings with typical Gothic ribbed vaults stand out.
Shortly after the first major renovation phase in the second half of the 15th century, a small, two-storey extension, covered by a gable roof, was added to the south-west gable. The saddle roof of the Ordonnanzhaus is supported by a magnificent roof structure from the early 15th century ( dendrochronology ), which, together with the roof trusses of St. Katharinen , that of the Old Town Hall and several other objects in the city, serves as an outstanding example of medieval carpentry and building logistics .
During the extensive renovation, renovation and restoration work from 1911 to 1912, the lane leading between the Ordonnanzhaus and the Old Town Hall was closed with a connecting building between the two houses and both buildings were structurally combined into one building complex .
function
Eichholz, Grasow and Biller thought the Ordonnanzhaus was a patrician house . Stiehl, Kolb and Tschirch take the view that it is the oldest town hall in the old town. Wernicke addresses the building as a shop and guild house .
According to the explanations of the well-known building historian Jens Christian Holst from Hoisdorf, who was entrusted with the building-historical research of the building on behalf of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel, the variant "patrician house" appears most likely. A merchant and medieval representative or negotiator of the city at the electoral court is noted as "Ghiso ut deme Steenhus". Although, for the reasons given above, Mr. Ghiso cannot be safely addressed as the owner of the Ordonnanzhaus, there are some arguments for this assignment.
The room layout also supports private use by a very wealthy citizen of the old town of Brandenburg.
Holst sees the private living quarters of the patrician family, which make up the north-eastern part of the ground floor, in the rooms of the former “Wein-ABC” restaurant. In the north-west there is a small arbor with excellently preserved Gothic plaster paintings, which can be seen as a small sensation in the Mark Brandenburg . Holst sees a small vine arbor in this room for private or intimate meetings or small festivities for the host.
Originally there was no connection between the Ordonnanzhaus and the town hall in the old town. An open alley ran between the two buildings from the Old Town Market to Schusterstrasse. As a unique object on the market, this allowed the town hall to maintain a similar presence to the one that Tangermünde town hall still has today, for example . Nevertheless, after the abandonment of the old town hall as the administrative seat in 1715, the Barchentfabrik was operated in both buildings .
The Ordonnanzhaus was acquired by the city of Brandenburg an der Havel in 1818. From 1840 on it served as an institution for the poor and a municipal orphanage. A police station was established in the 20th century.
In 1946 the Ordonnanzhaus was the official seat of the Brandenburg City Council for Adult Education and the founder of the Brandenburg Adult Education Center Wilhelm Fraenger . A taproom (Wein-ABC), a travel agency and the city and district library also used the building during the GDR's existence .
Since December 2007 the Ordonnanzhaus has been part of the city administration and since the end of January 2008 the official seat of the Mayor of Brandenburg.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Grasow: Brandenburg, the millennial city - A walk through the culture and architecture of past centuries. Self-published by the city of Brandenburg; Brandenburg an der Havel 1928
- Chronicle of the City of Brandenburg, published by the Urban History Working Group of the City of Brandenburg an der Havel in the Brandenburgischer Kulturbund e. V., Verlag B. Neddermeyer Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-933254-40-X
- Marcus Cante: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in Brandenburg, City of Brandenburg an der Havel, Volume 1.1 Dominsel-Altstadt-Neustadt. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft Worms am Rhein 1994, ISBN 3-88462-105-X
- Prussian Landbote, magazine for politics, economy and culture, listed at the German National Library, ISSN 1613-8910 , special edition Vanished Treasures of the City of Brandenburg, Brandenburg an der Havel 2003
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 50.9 ″ N , 12 ° 33 ′ 16 ″ E