Remensniderhaus

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The Remensniderhaus is a listed late Gothic half-timbered house in Herford .

location

The house is located in the pedestrian zone at Brüderstraße 26 in Herford's old town . Right next to it is the Engelkinghaus, which was also built in the late Gothic style in 1532.

description

The three-storey, gable-free half-timbered house was built in 1521 for Heinrich Aldach, known as Remensnider. On the façade there are 21 carved figure clusters with Christian representations, which, like the inscriptions, indicate a connection to the Herford clergy.

The second floor protrudes twice over grooved lugs on the north gable side and on the east eaves wall . The cleats are carved with figures on the gable side facing Brüderstraße. The thresholds are made into struts , decorated with inscriptions and coats of arms. The stands are braced with headbands , sometimes with footbands . On a threshold of the display gable is the following inscription in Latin words: Auxilio has Edes fido difendiete divi Que frontispicio stemmata vestra gerunt (Defend this house with the faithful help of God, which bears your family tree in the gable).

Above the inscription are the coats of arms of the lords of Braunschweig, Ravensberg, Lippe, Schaumburg, Waldeck, Osnabrück and Cologne.

With its 21 figure studs, it is artistically the most important of the late Gothic half-timbered buildings in Westphalia, which, after the destruction of the corresponding half-timbered houses in Hildesheim and Braunschweig, has a unique position as a monument in northern Germany.

The Remensniderhaus documents the religious worldview of the late Middle Ages in its clasp carving in a way that is unique for the Upper Weser area.

history

The builder is known by his inscription : 1521 Hinrick Aldach, known as Remensnider. In the second half of the 19th century the house was owned by the saddler C. Gellert, from whom it acquired the city of Herford in 1899. In 1985 it was transferred to Wohnbau Herford GmbH. It has been owned by the Liedtke family since 1998, who completely restored it between 1999 and 2001.

Originally, the house was thought to have been eleven containers in length and thus around 16 meters in length. Why and when the rear part of the building was demolished cannot be precisely said.

It has been a listed building since 1981 .

literature

  • Half-timbering in the Weser area by W.Hansen and H.Kreft
  • Unknown behind the unique facade by Fred Kaspar appeared in the historical yearbook for the Herford district in 2000.
  • Inventory, room book and damage mapping of the Remensniderhaus by Manuela Kramp and Elke Zeise in 1999.
  • Herford homeland sheet no.11, 8th year, published in November 1929
  • Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, II. Westphalia. 2., revised. Ed., Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 437.
  • Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Vol. 24: The architectural and art monuments of the Herford district. Münster iW 1908, p. 51.

Web links

Commons : Remensniderhaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio, p. 437.
  2. ↑ baufachinformation.de: The Remensniderhaus in Herford: Classification of the building history ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ List of architectural monuments in the city of Herford (PDF; 78 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '52.4 "  N , 8 ° 40' 28.4"  E