Pölkenstrasse 8 (Quedlinburg)

House Pölkenstrasse 8

The house Pölkenstraße 8 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the historic Neustadt Quedlinburg and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . The building is registered as a merchant's house in the Quedlinburg monument register.

Architecture and history

The three-storey half - timbered house is built in the late Baroque style. The facade has strong profile planks . In addition, the compartments are provided with decorative lining. On the street side, the building has a dwelling .

On the ground floor of the house there is an Art Nouveau shop built-in that is used today (as of 2012) as a bicycle shop.

In the courtyard of the property there are two arcades designed as segmental arches . The arcades made of rubble stones are arranged at an angle to each other. It is believed that it is the remains of a cave architecture from the Baroque period.

literature

• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 203.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 17.9 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 51.8"  E