Petershof (Halberstadt)
The Petershof on the northwest corner of the Domplatz in Halberstadt is a former episcopal residence and official seat. It is used by the city administration and as a city library.
history
In the middle of the 11th century, Bishop Burchard I had the St. Petri Curia built in the immediate vicinity of the Church of Our Lady , but outside of its property. This patronage refers to the original purpose of the two-wing building as the residence of the bishop.
Parts of the foundation building from 1052 may still be integrated into the building. As is customary in late medieval castle building, the cellar was built over the plateau of the elevation on which the Petershof stands, so that the Petershof reaches a considerable height when viewed from the lower town.
Around the middle of the 16th century, Bishop Sigismund II had the medieval residential buildings redesigned or replaced with a new building. A slender bay window on the front of the courtyard and the stair tower are evidence of this renewal. The portal with the year 1552, which was designed in a combination of late Gothic framework with early Renaissance ornamentation, is striking. This portal was chosen as the motif of a large-format wall painting on a new building on Holzmarkt.
The building was used by the state administration in the 17th and 18th centuries and by the local court in the 19th. This went hand in hand with a number of modifications. Since 2003 the main wing has been used as the seat of the Halberstadt city administration. For this purpose, an upper storey made of steel and glass was added. During the renovation work , a kitchen room with a large chimney was exposed on the ground floor, which has a groin vault , which was converted into a canteen. One of the baluster columns that supported the ceiling of the hall that was once there has been preserved on the upper floor.
A chapel belongs to the Petershof. This hall structure extends to the east to the Peter Staircase and has a recessed, polygonal closed choir. The vaulted consoles of this chapel, which also closes with a groin vault, can be dated to before the middle of the 14th century. In 1665 the chapel was given to the German Reformed community. At that time it was given a baroque interior, but this has not been preserved. In 1869 the chapel was converted into a courtroom. The medieval part of the building to the west was converted into a cell wing.
From 1997 the chapel was gutted and converted into the city library.
Cloister
The Petershof borders on a Gothic cloister west of the Liebfrauenkirche , which was built around the middle of the 14th century. This cloister has been used as a museum since 1905, in which the remains of demolished Halberstadt buildings are shown. Mainly it is about stone figures, facade fragments and epitaphs .
Web links
- Petershof at Welt-der-Wappen: Description and photos, focus on heraldry
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Findeisen: Halberstadt. Cathedral, Liebfrauenkirche, Cathedral Square. With a contribution by Adolf Siebrecht. Königstein im Taunus, 5th edition 2012, ISBN 978-3-7845-4607-0 , pp. 29–31.
- ↑ The cloister of the Petershof on www.harzlife.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 46 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 37 ″ E