Ringelnatzhaus
Hans Gustav Bötticher, who later became the poet, cabaret artist and painter Joachim Ringelnatz, was born in a room above the corridor on August 7, 1883 , in the former residential and commercial building at Crostigall 14, named Ringelnatzhaus since 1983 , in Wurzen , Saxony. as evidenced by the midwife's birth certificate. The Bötticher family lived in the house for another five years until they moved to the nearby trade fair and book city of Leipzig in 1888 . To distinguish it from other Ringelnatz houses, it is also called the Ringelnatz birth house .
history
The building as well as the adjacent area with stables and garden is the last example of one of the city estates that shaped the city of Wurzen for centuries. The building dates from the Baroque and has been redesigned in a classical style. The first documentary evidence can be found from 1511. The documented changes of ownership show bleachers, dyers, transporters and approaches to industrialization. Exact records can be found in the state archives in Leipzig and Dresden , in the building archive of the city of Wurzen, as well as the first evidence in the loan book of Bishop Johann von Salhausen in the Wurzen monastery archive.
Ringelnatz
A plaque on the building commemorates the city's famous son. This woodcut panel was attached to the birthplace as early as 1945 in the presence of Ringelnatz 'sister Ottilie Mitter and the then Wurzen museum director. On the occasion of Joachim Ringelnatz's 100th birthday in 1983, the house at Am Crostigall 14, which was extensively restored at that time, was given the name “Ringelnatzhaus”. The Ringelnatz Museum with a memorial exhibition was located in three rooms on the ground floor, the former living rooms on the upper floor were used by the "Club der Intelligence Joachim Ringelnatz" and the top floor housed the district secretariat of the GDR Cultural Association and the editorial staff of the local magazine "Der Rundblick". For this conversion of the building, serious interventions were made in the spatial structure of the upper floor.
Cost reasons forced the closure of the Ringelnatz exhibition in Crostigall 14 in 1994 and the integration of the presentation into the Museum of Cultural History in Domgasse. With the reconstruction of the historical museum building in Domgasse, the Ringelnatz memorial exhibition has been on view in the Wurzen Museum of Cultural History since 1999. With the dissolution of the Kulturbund, the rooms on the upper floor were also given up for cultural events. In the years 1995–1999, the Wurzen registry office was temporarily housed in the former club room. The last users finally moved out of the Ringelnatz birth house, which belongs to the city of Wurzen, in 2015. In the meantime, the house had no water connection and could not be used. For years there has been a lack of funds for renovation for sustainable use. When the city of Wurzen envisaged sales in October 2015, committed associations and people successfully resisted it.
present
The Joachim-Ringelnatz-Verein eV was able to convince the city of Wurzen, as the owner of the building, with its operator concept in spring 2016 that the association is the partner for the development of the Ringelnatz birthplace. This caused the city councils to move away from the original request to sell the house and decided by a majority that the association should operate the house. After signing the lease in July 2016, the necessary basic repairs could be carried out. The house has a water connection again, working toilets and heating. Since summer 2016, the Joachim-Ringelnatz-Verein eV has developed an offer and reopened the house for regular events and guided tours. To distinguish it from other houses in which Joachim Ringelnatz lived or worked, it was decided in future to speak of the "Ringelnatz birthplace".
In July 2019, the Wurzen City Council awarded contracts for various renovation work, even if corresponding offers were not submitted for all lots due to the limited invitation to tender. The building application for work on the listed building has been submitted. The total construction costs amount to around 747,000 euros, the city of Wurzen is investing around 323,000 euros as a contribution. The renovation work includes the renewal of plumbing, heating and electrical systems, the roof covering is renewed and a lightning protection system is installed. In addition, there is thermal insulation, sealing and plastering work on the facade as well as necessary modifications to windows and doors. On the upper floor, space is created for an event hall measuring around 80 square meters. There is also an exhibition room and a reading room. A project room and a club room are planned on the ground floor. Sandstone will be used in the foyer and stairwell, the stucco on the ceilings will be retained, the cornices refurbished and the original railing visible again. The approved renovation costs also include a disabled lift in an annex to the left of the building, which also accommodates the disabled toilets and the escape stairs. For the baroque elements, such as the two historic doors and the baroque decorative gable on the listed birthplace, the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung together with the Sparkasse Muldental presented a corresponding funding commitment in August 2018. The city of Wurzen has also planned funds for the design of the courtyard area at the Ringelnatzhaus for 2020 through the “green stepping stones” program. The planned “Ringelnatz Garden”, a public meeting place for cultural events and readings in the open air, but also as an inner-city place to linger, reflect and play, is also part of this objective. As a “green stepping stone”, it has an important open space function in the historic center of Wurzen and connects the Crostigall with Postgasse.
[obsolete] According to the town hall, the planned memorial, meeting and research facility should be ready for occupancy by March 2020 at the latest. The intended goal is the gradual long-term development of the Ringelnatz birthplace into a literary memorial, meeting and research center for interested parties and visitors from German-speaking countries.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Ringelnatzhaus - birthplace of the poet and painter . In: wurzen-impressionen.de . Retrieved February 22, 2016.
- ↑ Kai-Uwe Brandt: City Council Wurzen awards building contracts for Ringelnatzhaus. Leipziger Volkszeitung, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Redevelopment - Joachim-Ringelnatz-Verein eV Accessed on October 22, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 0.7 ″ N , 12 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E