Rectory (Wichmannsburg)

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Wichmannsburg rectory
View from the north

The Wichmann Burger rectory is under monument protection standing half-timbered house in Wichmannsburg in the unified community Bienenbüttel in Lower Saxony Uelzen district . The building belongs to the parish of St. George's Church and is currently empty.

location

The rectory is located in the center of the historic center of Wichmannsburg on Kreisstrasse 1. There is a residential building to the north and south. St. George's Church is a few hundred meters north. The Ilmenau runs to the east and delimits the parish garden.

history

Castle complex on the rectory

After Wichmann I had built a castle on the Ilmenau in the 10th century , Wasmud from the Meding family also built a castle in Wichmannsburg in 1361. Wasmud von Meding built this castle in part on the current site of the Wichmannsburg rectory. The last remains of the castle were removed in the 19th century. The steep slope on the site is the last trace of the former structure.

Building history

The previous building from 1750 was already characterized by its purely residential function, which was still an exception in north-west Germany in the 18th century. The pure residential building of the master carpenter Kneese was a single-storey half-timbered building with brick infill and a pan roof . Like the rectory in Bad Bevensen from 1734, which was also completed by Kneese, the building in Wichmannsburg was characterized by a differentiated spatial program and expensive building materials.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the partial or complete separation between agricultural functional areas and living areas became much more popular. The current rectory building in Wichmannsburg was completed in 1808 and is considered an early and important example of a successful complete separation and the establishment of a separate farm building . The new building by the master builder Sommer was necessary because the previous building, including the ancillary building, was very dilapidated after 60 years. The Wichmannsburger building from 1808 served as a prototype for rectories in the region. Similar rectories were increasingly built in the area only from the middle of the 19th century.

Current situation

The rectory is currently in poor condition and is in urgent need of renovation. The building has been empty since 2015 and no longer serves as the residence of the local pastor. Since a new building would be cheaper, the local parish decided to demolish the rectory. Thereupon, among others, the interest group farmhouse active throughout Germany campaigned for the preservation of the building. However, the building will no longer be demolished because the monument authorities did not drop the building's monument protection in 2019.

The parish garden is to serve as a meeting place in the future and offer space for events, for example.

architecture

The Wichmannsburg rectory is a two-story half-timbered building with brick infill. The half-hip roof is covered with red roof tiles. On the street side, the building has a dormer clad with wood . A small porch adjoins the building to the north.

There is no evidence of who the design of the rectory goes back to. The significant similarity to the unrealized design of the Barum rectory from 1825/26 suggests that the architect of the Wichmannsburg rectory also built the building or at least knew the leading architect.

Web links

Commons : Wichmannsburger Pfarrhaus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Eismann: Wichmannsburg. In: EBIDAT. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Behnke, Eberhard: Pastor Karl Kayser and his chronicle of the parish Wichmannsburg . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-6316-7 , p. 58-61 .
  3. ^ Thomas Spohn: Parsonage in Northwest Germany . Waxmann, Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-89325-717-1 , pp. 515-518 .
  4. ^ Thomas Spohn: Parsonage in Northwest Germany . Waxmann, Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-89325-717-1 , pp. 479-485 .
  5. ^ A b Thomas Spohn: Parsonage in Northwest Germany . Waxmann, Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-89325-717-1 , pp. 485-493 .
  6. ↑ Behnke, Eberhard: Pastor Karl Kayser and his chronicle of the parish Wichmannsburg . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-6316-7 , p. 108-110 .
  7. ^ A b Lars Lohmann: IG Bauernhaus wants to prevent the Wichmannsburg rectory from being demolished. In: az-online.de. May 8, 2019, accessed June 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Anna Petersen: The rectory is about to be demolished. In: landeszeitung.de. October 2, 2018, accessed June 21, 2020 .
  9. ^ Lars Lohmann: The rectory in Wichmannsburg becomes a meeting place. In: az-online.de. September 14, 2019, accessed June 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Florian Beye: Many ideas for the parish garden . In: General newspaper of the Lüneburg Heath . tape 171 , no. 146 . Uelzen June 25, 2020, p. 5 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 7.2 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 27.9 ″  E