Prelate House (Meißen)
The late Gothic prelate house is one of the oldest houses in Meißen and a nationally important monument. With its late Gothic brick gable, it characterizes the picturesque western view of the old town and contains significant remains of late Gothic wall paintings.
Building history
In the years 1509 and 1510, the papal legate and episcopal notary Nikolaus Heynemann had a house built in the old town of Meißner on the Rotestufe 3 property . The late Gothic three-storey building is founded directly on the rock and has a richly decorated stepped brick gable that is effective in terms of urban planning.
The house has a late Gothic beamed ceiling in the entrance hall, two plank rooms with wall frescoes in several rooms that are unique in Germany and that show parallels to the Cranach workshop , possibly even originating from it. The paintings indicate Heynemann's contacts to influential circles and are unique north of the Alps. Also numerous extraordinary buildings that his employer at the time, Bishop Johann VI. von Saalhausen , pointed in a similar direction.
The paintings from the early 16th century show, among other things, figures with portrait-like features and lettering, possibly depictions of prophets from the heyday of the late Gothic. Furthermore, more recent interior designs from the Baroque and Classicist periods have been preserved.
Redevelopment
At the end of the 19th century, the prelate house was converted into a tenement house. During the GDR era, the building fell into disrepair and was empty from 1980. The demolition could be prevented through the commitment of the citizens of Meißner, who had come together in the Kuratorium Rettet Meißen - Jetzt . The citizens' initiative organized an emergency backup in the eighties. Shortly after the fall of the Wall, the valuable frescoes were rediscovered and in 1994 the renovation of the roof began.
In 1998 the Meissen city council decided to buy the building from a community of heirs in order to have it restored under the direction of the board of trustees. The completely dilapidated outbuilding was rebuilt for the 500th anniversary. The renovation of the wall paintings in the late Gothic plank room on the second floor is particularly complex.
A large part of the building has not yet been refurbished. Nevertheless, part of the house is now used for events.
literature
- Matthias Donath , Günter Donath: Building history of the late Gothic house Red Steps 3 in Meißen . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in Saxony . Notices from the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony. Sax-Verlag, 1996, ISSN 0943-2132 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 589.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 53.5 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 10.5 ″ E