Pied Piper House
The Pied Piper House is one of the most famous houses in Hamelin's old town. It represents one of the most magnificent buildings of the Weser Renaissance . The building is at the junction of Bungelosenstrasse and Osterstrasse.
description
The Pied Piper House was built in 1602/1603 by the master builders Johann Hundertossen or Eberhard Wilkening for the Hamelin councilor Hermann Arendes. It has been owned by the city of Hameln since 1917, and today a restaurant is operated in the Pied Piper House. The original facade has been preserved.
The house has been called the Pied Piper House since around 1900 . His name is based on an inscription in a wooden beam on the side of the house facing Bungelosenstrasse. This reports on the departure of the Hamelin children in the wake of the Pied Piper on June 26, 1284:
- ANNO 1284 ON THE DAY JOHANNIS ET PAULI WAS THE 26TH OF JUNE - DORCH HAS BEEN A PIPER WITH ALLERLEY FARVE CXXX CHILDREN GED BINNEN HAMELN BORN - TO CALVARIE LOST HIS HEADS .
in modern German:
- IN THE YEAR 1284, ON THE DAY OF JOHANNES AND PAUL - JUNE 26TH - 130 CHILDREN BORN IN HAMELN (WERE) ABDUCTED BY A COLORFUL CLOTHED PFEIFER - (WALKED) LOST AT KOPPEN ON KALVARIENBERG .
According to legend, the pied piper led the children out of town through Bungelosenstrasse. As a result, playing music in the street was banned for all time (bungelos = drumless, without a drum).
literature
- Ulrich Nüthen, Norbert Assmuth: The Pied Piper House in Hameln - For the restoration of an important Renaissance townhouse , in: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Restoration of cultural monuments. Examples from the preservation of historic monuments in Lower Saxony (= reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , supplement 2), Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Hameln: Niemeyer, 1989, pp. 82–85
- Gerda Wangerin: The "Pied Piper House" in Hameln. in: architecture, structure, symbol. Festschrift for Cord Meckseper, Michael Imhof Verlag ISBN 3-932526-52-X
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Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 15.1 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 38.5 ″ E