Dowager's house (Potsdam)

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Former preacher's widow's house, Breite Strasse 14

The Predigerwitwenhaus is a listed building in the northern city center of Potsdam, Breite Straße 14 [formerly 25].

architecture

The nine-axis plastered building is three-story with a gable roof. The facade of the first floor received a square plaster . Pilasters divide the two upper floors above a cornice . The triangular gable above the three-axis central projection was retained from the previous building. The pediment is adorned with leaf ornaments and the regalia of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm . The Kurhut crowns the Kur-Scepter depicted in a scrollwork cartouche . Beneath it, in a round niche, stands the bust of the Elector, which presumably came from the workshop of the Dutch sculptor Bartholomeus Eggers . Karl Friedrich Schinkel was consulted for the placement of the figurine niche .

history

The first preacher widow's house , donated by Electress Dorothea , was built around 1674 on the foundations of a former forest and school house. The residential monastery, equipped with 12 apartments for widows and orphans, preferably by Reformed preachers and school employees as well as a carer, opened in 1682. However, the foundation deed was only approved by Elector Friedrich III. signed on February 1, 1697. Johann Gregor Memhardt probably made the draft for the building designed in the style of Dutch Palladianism , which Joachim Ernst Bläsendorf carried out. One of the spiritual inspectors from 1693 to 1741 was the theologian and co-founder of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences Daniel Ernst Jablonski .

In 1813 the house was in a dilapidated condition due to moisture damage. The royal government at Potsdam suggested Friedrich Wilhelm III. in January 1824 before the demolition. On August 17, 1826, the foundation stone was laid for the expanded new building with 23 widow's apartments. The residential building, completed in 1827, in classicist forms, was built according to the plans of the government and building councilor Carl Wilhelm Redtel (1783-1853). "Bauinspektor Brandt" and Christian Heinrich Ziller were entrusted with the execution . The preacher's widow's house was used as a residential home until 2006 and sold by the Protestant church to a private investor.

literature

  • Friedrich Mielke: Potsdam architecture. Classic Potsdam. Propylaea, Frankfurt a. M./Berlin/Wien 1981, ISBN 3-549-06648-1 , p. 21, p. 113 f.
  • Barbara Wiesener: The Potsdam preacher's widow's house - a place for women . Arke, Potsdam 2016, ISBN 978-3-940465-07-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Mielke: Potsdam architecture. Classic Potsdam . Frankfurt a. M./Berlin/Wien 1981, p. 114.
  2. ^ Paul Sigel et al .: Architectural Guide Potsdam . Berlin 2006, p. 12 and other publications. Mielke dates the building to the last decade of the 17th century, as the time it was built was controversial and lasted from 1663 to after 1697. Compare Friedrich Mielke: Potsdamer Baukunst. Classic Potsdam . 1981, p. 21.
  3. ↑ The house, first mentioned between 1540 and 1545, could also have been a pleasure and hunting palace. See Olaf Thiede, Jörg Wacker: Chronology. Potsdam and the surrounding area . Volume 2, Potsdam 2007, p. 495.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Milke, 1981, p. 362.
  5. ^ A b Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation : Reports and research from the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation . Bautz, Nordhausen 2012, p. 237 f.
  6. ^ Paul Sigel et al .: Architectural Guide Potsdam . Berlin 2006, p. 12. On the basis of a facade drawing signed by “Bauinspektor Brandt” and Christian Heinrich Ziller, Friedrich Mielke believes Baurat Redtel as the designing architect is unlikely, cf. Friedrich Mielke: Potsdam architecture. Classic Potsdam . 1981, p. 113, p. 362.

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '43.8 "  N , 13 ° 3' 3.8"  E