Romberger Hof
The Romberger Hof was a classical aristocratic palace in Münster at Neubrückstrasse 64. It was a representative building of the city and housed a theater and a music college, among other things. Apart from the ruined facade of the Mittel risalits , it was destroyed in the Second World War.
history
Initially, the property was owned by the Drolshagen hereditary family, who received it as the Lütkenbeck house in the middle of the 14th century. After the family died out, this came into the possession of Droste zu Vischering. In 1720 four house registers were counted between Vossgasse and the Dechanei St. Martin: Becker Clemens (corner of Vossgasse), Haus von Lütkenbeck, Droste von Bevern, Lutterbeck. The property has been uninhabited since 1760 - a servant Havestadt is mentioned in 1764 - and the name is listed in the cadastre until 1767. October 26, 1778 the house was "used as a stable in younger years", which seems to be the case at the Lütkenbeckschen Hof as early as 1774; the Beversche Hof, however, had fallen down. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Herreman van Zuydwyk, Herr zu Oudegyn, owned the houses of the butcher Bartholomäus Lutterbeck, the Lütkenbeck court, the house of the tailor Johann Bernhard Scherbrock, the chair maker Becker, the shoemaker Böhmer, the Beckers Westarp, asked the city council to be able to collect these services, which he was allowed to do against payment of 1,000 Reichstalers. The foundation of the house was laid on March 17, 1779. Since Heereman lived in the Kleiner Schmisinger Hof, which he officially left in 1782, it seems plausible that he has moved into his new domicile. But on March 20, 1798, he sold the house to the namesake, Giesbert Freiherr von Romberg.
During the Napoleonic Wars, Field Marshal Blücher , among others, moved here. At the end of October 1895, the Society of the Civil Club rented the house, which after a few years passed into the Hall Building Society, which was founded in 1900. The horse stable (made of sandstone) was used as a porch when the Lorzing Theater opened. On June 19, 1906, the city acquired the Romberger Hof, although initially the tenancy remained unaffected. But on November 23, 1919, the Saalbaugesellschaft acquired the Stienen house in Syndikatsgasse and moved there the following year. The Westphalian University of Music opened its doors on October 15, 1919 in the premises of the leading Hotel Renne. The structural condition was restored by the monument office. In 1920 the new building of the town hall, the southern part of which was behind the Romberger Hof, was connected by a high terrace.
During the air raid on Münster on October 10, 1943, the Romberger Hof was also badly hit. After the war, consideration was given to demolishing the ruins in order to make room for the Münster Theater . The central projection of the rear front, however, was preserved as a memorial over a length of approx. 12.4 m with its colossal Ionic columns in front.
description
The authorship of the architect Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper is not attested by a certificate, but by tradition, the fact that the drawings belong to the Crone Collection and the architect's well-known handwriting on many sheets. The floor plan of the building made of Baumberger sandstone was 41.2 × 16 m. The classic three-wing construction was abandoned. When the building was bought by the music-loving Romberg family , numerous changes were made.
Romberger Hof
Central Risalit 2005
Central elevation 1929
Back of the Romberger Hof with the central projection
Front of the Romberger Hof
overall view
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Web links
literature
- Wilhelm Rave, Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia, Volume 41, The City of Münster, Part Four, Münster 1935.
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 '53 " N , 7 ° 37' 44" E