Quedlinburg City Palace

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Quedlinburg City Palace
Corner of Bockstraße / Klink
tower

The Quedlinburg City Palace , also known as “Hagensches Freihaus” , is located at the eastern entrance to Quedlinburg's old town and is an outstanding example of a Renaissance city ​​palace. The client, Christoph von Hagen , had this solid structure built in 1564–1566 in the style of the stately architecture of the time. The Adelshof, which is now used as a hotel, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the historic half-timbered town of Quedlinburg. It is registered as a noble farm in the Quedlinburg monument register.

Architectural style

The façade facing the Klink and Bockstrasse with volute gables and dwarf houses is complemented by a striking corner tower with a “ Welscher hood ”. In the courtyard area there is another stair tower with Wendelstein , which can be reached today via the orangery of the hotel, as well as an elaborately designed entrance portal with seating niches and pilaster framing .

Inside is the partially preserved and restored furnishings with wooden ceilings and wood paneling with rich inlays . The lowest row of windows was installed at a height of 3.50 m during construction because the city ​​wall of the old town stood in front of it . Particularly noteworthy are the doors in the fireplace room of the house, now called the lounge. At the time of construction these were delivered directly from the Dresden Zwinger .

history

Photo taken from 1893

In an exposed location in Quedlinburg, in the immediate vicinity of the transition from the old town to the new town, Christoph von Hagen had a castle built between 1564 and 1566 with a renaissance facade, splendid decorations and ceiling constructions made of wood and staircases made of sandstone. Later the castle was used in a variety of ways. The monastery governor Christoph Vitzthum von Eckstedt resided in this castle at least since 1630 . He was allowed to tear down the adjoining part of the city wall, but had to undertake to keep the waterfront walls of the mill moat in front of it in order. From 1816 the first seat of the Quedlinburg district administrator was in the northern part.

In the recent past, the district office as well as medical practices and shops were located in the building complex. The house was last used as a residential building before it was restored and reconstructed between 2002 and 2004 after having been vacant for several years. Through this work, above all by securing its substance, the “Hagensche Freihaus” was returned to its original state. The two side wings of the four-star hotel, which opened in August 2004, were built as a new building. Today the hotel belongs to the Precise Hotel Collection and is run under the name "Wyndham Garden Quedlinburg Stadtschloss".

literature

  • Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 749
  • Hans-Jürgen Meie: World Heritage Quedlinburg , Studio Volker Schadach, Goslar 1998, p. 63, ISBN 3-928728-29-6
  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt Volume 7.1 .: District of Quedlinburg, City of Quedlinburg , developed by Falko Grubitzsch et al., Halle / Saale, 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 90 f.
  • Oliver Schlegel: Dying Sources; From the water supply of a medieval quarter (Bockstraße 6 / Klink 11) , in: Archeology and Building Research, ed. von der Stadt Quedlinburg, 8 (2004), p. 14 f.

Web links

Commons : Quedlinburger Stadtschloss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karlheinz Wauer, House book of the city of Quedlinburg from the middle of the 16th century to 1950, A Die Altstadt , Stoye Foundation 2014, ISBN 978-3-937230-21-4 , page 65
  2. ^ Manfred Mittelstaedt, Quedlinburg , Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-560-8 , page 43

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 25.1 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 42.9 ″  E