Peter Ulrich House

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Peter-Ulrich-Haus, view from the north

The under monument protection standing Peter-Ulrich house is an old house from the early 16th century in the center of Pirna , Am Markt 3. Since 2011, located in the house that Tom and Paul Theater .

history

Peter Ulrich

The builder Peter Ulrich was probably born in Heilbronn around 1440 . In 1478 he appeared for the first time in Saxony as a ducal foreman in a permanent position for the life of Elector Ernst and Duke Albrecht . He took on various building tasks in Dresden and acquired citizenship there in 1493. In 1502 he was called to Pirna to take over the new building of the Marienkirche as a church builder . A year later, his name appears there for the first time in a combing invoice from the city. In 1504 he was also entrusted with the construction of the Church of St. Wenceslas in Lommatzsch. The completion of his own house also suffered from the increased workload. Ulrich directed the construction of the Marienkirche in Pirna until his death in late autumn 1513 or spring 1514.

Peter Ulrich House

construction

Since Ulrich expected a long-term commitment in Pirna, on June 12th 1503 he bought a dilapidated house on the market in a row of merchants' houses for one hundred Meissen gulden . The previous owner was Paul Nack, who came from an influential Pirna cloth maker family. During excavations in 2010, two ovens from the time of the previous owner were found in the eastern part of the house, which had no basement. They were used for processing cloth, for fulling and dyeing fabrics. The cellars found suggest that they were first built in the 13th century.

Discrepancies, which almost prevented the house from being bought, delayed the start of construction. In the meantime Ulrich lived to rent in Pirna. In 1505 he had the old house almost completely demolished; only the southern outer wall was left standing. According to the instructions of the Pirna Council, the new building should be built in stone. The new house, completed in 1506, was three meters longer in the direction of the market and provided with a representative entrance. With the exception of the shop entrances that were added later and a modified roof shape, the facade is still original today.

Ulrich was married (his wife died shortly before him), but had no children at the time of his death, so that his house could not be inherited.

North-east corner of the Pirnaer Markt with the Peter Ulrich House 1888

Conversions

After Ulrich's death, the baker Martin Standfest bought the house and in 1520 had the simple rectangular windows on the north facade enlarged to make twin windows . He also had massive partition walls built in the entrance hall.

In a city fire in July 1547, the house was severely damaged, only the rooms on the first floor were preserved. The house was sold again and the new owner was Oswald Schein. In 1550 he had the north facade repaired and built the current roof structure, taking over Ulrich's window profiles. In addition, the entrance hall was vaulted with filigree cell vaults . In the roof of the market appearance was a dormer in the Renaissance style install. This was to be demolished again in 1880 and replaced by the current roof shape with simple dormers .

In 1572 the house had a new owner. Caspar Milich ran the oldest known pharmacy on the Pirnaer Markt here until 1575. The ground floor served as a business and commercial space.

Almost 200 years later, around 1750, the Royal Electoral Saxon State Accis was on the ground floor . Here the collection of the “general consumption excise” (similar to today's sales tax ) was administered. There was also a smoke kitchen and a horse stable on the ground floor . In the 19th century, the “restoration to the cookshop” had developed from the kitchen. Over the years merchants, hosiery workers and shoemakers have worked in the Peter Ulrich House.

At the end of the 19th century, large openings for shop windows were broken into the facade. In GDR times there was a grocery and vegetable shop behind it. After the fall of the Wall , the house stood empty for a long time. A conversion to a residential building failed because of the north-facing position of the building, the narrow inner courtyard and its internal structure. Therefore, in 2002, considerations arose to use the building culturally.

Theater hall

Tom Pauls Theater

After the Pirnaer Wohnungsgesellschaft WGP had looked after the security of the Peter Ulrich House for nine years, there were two concepts for future use in 2008. According to a concept from 2002, the Pirnaer Kuratorium Altstadt wanted to carefully convert the house into a museum of bourgeois urban design including a meeting place for associations.

The city approved the second proposal from Tom Pauls . Its “ Ilse-Bähnert-Stiftung ” bought the Peter-Ulrich-Haus in August 2009. Its renovation began on December 1, 2009. Of the total costs of 3.3 million euros, 2.4 million euros came from urban development funds. During the renovation, numerous walls that had been drawn in over the centuries were removed.

In 2013, the craftsmen involved in the renovation of the Peter Ulrich House, such as the Meissen master painter Bill Quaas and the client Tom Pauls, received the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation . This is awarded by the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the Central Association of German Crafts . The detailed restoration of the house was praised. For example, the pigments, binders and various stains were produced according to historical models and applied with animal hairbrushes according to a color concept under the supervision of the state curator.

On November 11th, 2011 the actor and cabaret artist Tom Pauls was able to inaugurate the theater named after him in the Peter-Ulrich-Haus.

The Great Hall now has 180 seats. Living utensils from the time it was built can be seen in the library. There is space for 40 guests at events.

Portal on the west side

description

Outside

The characteristic features of the Peter-Ulrich-Haus to this day are the window frames made of linked frameworks on both upper floors and a masterfully designed keel arch portal (one of the earliest preserved seating niche portals in Saxony). When the street level was raised in 1810, the portal was also raised.

Library

Inside

When entering the café on the ground floor from the market, the wooden beam ceiling in the front part of the café immediately catches the eye. Like the wooden beam ceiling in the rear part of the café, it comes from the time the house was built. Ulrich had the simple, unprofiled ceilings glazed dark brown. Between 1518 and 1550, the ceilings were given a uniform color scheme in white lime and casein with black frames and black and white cassettes between the beams. This design has been preserved to this day. There are further layers of paint under the frame.

The former stately hall is now used as a theater hall. The room could have existed when the house was built. It is certain that the merchant Oswald Schein had an unusually large hall built on the upper floor after the city fire of 1547. In 1999 and 2009 building researchers found the remains of two paintings, the oldest of which shows the archaic depiction of a horse in a window reveal. In a more recent layer of paint, a green-chromatic painting with floral motifs and two initials, one of which is still legible “IGS”, probably a reference to the owners at the time, the Schein family, was found in the current stage. The size of the hall only lasted for a short time: probably already the son of Oswald Schein built two half-timbered transverse walls into the hall, which were attached to the plank walls. When the house was converted into a tenement house at the end of the 18th century, more half-timbered and brick walls and ceiling cladding were added, and the hall could no longer be seen.

In the Peter-Ulrich-Haus, exhibits from his history are shown today. These were discovered by the State Office for Archeology in Saxony during construction work in an exposed well and a broken off and filled furnace and made available for exhibition. Among other things, you can see jugs, pot parts and the remains of a felt hat; also some tiles from stoves from the time before the new building by Ulrich. These tiles have a special feature: They are mostly provided with a coating of gold- and silver-colored mica , a surface coating that was still unknown in Saxony in the 15th century. This indicates a lively trade relationship with Bohemia, where such tiles were produced. In the old ovens there were relief-decorated leaf tiles with architectural, floral and biblical motifs.

The spatial structures of the former living room, the reconstructed black kitchen and the neighboring bedroom can be recognized again.

Ulrich had the groin vault and the central pillar renewed in the cellar behind the cellar on the market side. This spatial structure is still visible today. The basement can still be reached today via the cellar staircase built around 1520. The floor of the neighboring barrel storage cellar is covered with river pebbles according to the historical model.

literature

  • Baumeistertheater gGmbH (Hrsg.): Germany's oldest master builder's house. The Peter Ulrich House in Pirna. Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-936240-30-6

Web links

Commons : Peter-Ulrich-Haus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Christian Ruf: Germany's oldest master builder's house, built by Peter Ulrich, is in Pirna - and now serves as the Tom Pauls Theater . In: Dresdner Latest News . April 8, 2013 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  2. ^ Matthias Donath: Ulrich, Peter (Peter von Heilbronn, Peter von Pirna). In: Saxon Biography. Institute for Saxon History and Folklore, accessed on October 23, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Dirk Böhme: Portrait - Who was the builder Peter Ulrich? www.tom-pauls-theater-pirna.de, accessed on October 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Peter Ulrich House . In: Saxon newspaper . July 2, 2008 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Christian Eißner: Future of the 500 year old house on Markt 3 . In: Saxon newspaper . July 23, 2008 ( paid online via genios.de, free for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  6. ↑ The Peter Ulrich House now belongs to the Bähnert Foundation . In: Saxon newspaper . August 4, 2009 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  7. ↑ Peter Ulrich House . In: Saxon newspaper . July 8, 2010 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  8. ↑ a b Mark Daniel: A success story: The Tom-Pauls-Theater in the shining Pirna . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . April 21, 2015 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  9. ↑ Awarded in Saxony . In: Free Press - Marienberger Zeitung . January 27, 2014 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  10. ↑ Harald Daßler: Dressed up . In: Saxon newspaper . December 30, 2013 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on October 23, 2015]).
  11. ↑ A house for the Saxon soul . In: Free Press - Chemnitzer Zeitung . April 26, 2013 ( paid online via genios.de, free of charge for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed October 23, 2015]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 45.6 ″  N , 13 ° 56 ′ 33.9 ″  E