Priorhaus Neuwerk

Priorhaus Neuwerk

The Prior House Neuwerk is in the district Neuwerk in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ) Engel Blecker Street 385th

The house was built in 1771. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach under No. E 006 on September 24, 1985 .

use

On the ground floor of the house, the Neuwerker Heimatfreunde e. V. the Priorhaus Museum, in which the history of the Neuwerk district is presented and discussed. The upper floor is used as living space.

architecture

It is the former home of the priest assigned to the Neuwerker nunnery . With the houses Dammer Strasse 143 and Dünner Strasse 273, the house belongs to the remainder of the half-timbered buildings that mark the historic Neuwerker town center .

The two-storey half - timbered house from the 18th century, inscribed in 1771, was demolished in 1958/59 for traffic-related reasons and rebuilt at a later point. The largest part of the framework has been renewed.

Because of the historical half-timbered architecture and as part of the monastery ensemble , as well as for local historical, architectural and urban planning reasons, the property is worth preserving.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

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• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 25.4 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 21.1"  E