Romanus House
The Romanushaus is a historic building in downtown Leipzig on the corner of Brühl and Katharinenstrasse . The city palace, built between 1701 and 1704, is one of the main works of Leipzig Baroque architecture influenced by Dresden . Previously used as a town house, it is now used as a commercial building.
architecture
The Romanushaus encompassing four lots is designed as a baroque city palace with a plinth-like ground floor, three floors of different heights and a mansard roof . As a corner building, it has a north facade with 13 window axes to Brühl and an east facade about half as wide with six window axes to Katharinenstraße. Both fronts are connected by a two-story bay window on the corner of the house, which is inclined at a 45-degree angle. The facades are by risalits divided vertically: At the northern front, the three axes on the left and right edges and the three central axes form a buttress, and jump on the east side, the two central axes window from escaping out. A richly decorated one-storey tail gable with an oval window closes the central risalit on the north side, while the risalit of the east facade is rounded off by a similar gable with two kidney-shaped windows. In the southwest the building encloses a small rectangular inner courtyard.
The roof was originally a five-window wide and two-window deep, one-story Belvedere (roof pavilion) placed in the middle of the north facade, which was removed in 1874, but rebuilt in the course of repair and restoration work between 1996 and 1998. All stucco ceilings and the two courtyard wings fell victim to renovations from 1966 to 1969. However, the latter have also been restored in their old form.
The decorative elements are typically baroque. Most striking are the garlands on most of the window parapets , the entrances and the gables . In the niche under the corner bay window , a Hermes statue , presumably created by Balthasar Permoser , has recently been placed.
history
The Romanushaus owes its name to Franz Conrad Romanus (1671–1746), Mayor of Leipzig from 1701 , who had the building built between 1701 and 1704 according to plans by Leipzig's master mason Johann Gregor Fuchs . In 1730 Romanus' daughter, the poet Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , set up a literature and music salon in the Romanushaus. At this point in time, the building no longer belonged to Romanus, who had meanwhile been convicted of forging council bonds and imprisoned at Königstein Fortress , but to his wife Christiana Maria Romanus (née Brümmer), who sold it to Hofrat Oertel in 1735. The Oertel family sold it to the wine merchant George Wilhelm Richter in 1770 . Two years later he opened the “Richtersche Café” on the second floor, but after he got into debt, the building came into the possession of the businessman Jacob Marcus Dufour-Pallard. After him it was called “Dufour's House” in the 19th century. In 1906 the Steinmann brothers took over the Romanushaus and had it completely refurbished in 1906/07 by the architect Otto Paul Burghardt . In the early 1990s, the Romanushaus belonged to the Leipzig property owned by the building contractor Jürgen Schneider .
literature
- Hocquél, Wolfgang : Leipzig (from the series of art history city books ). VEB EA Seemann Buch- und Kunstverlag, Leipzig 1983. P. 91f.
- Müller, Michael / Heise , Ulla : The Romanushaus in Leipzig - history and stories . Leipzig 1990
- Riedel, Horst: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005. pp. 507f. ISBN 3-936-50803-8 .
- Schwarz, Alberto: Das Alte Leipzig - Stadtbild und Architektur , Beucha 2018, pp. 97 ff., ISBN 978-3-86729-226-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Schneider Objects" in Leipzig City. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
- ↑ DNB 910638322
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 34.3 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 29.3" E