Corvinushaus
Corvinushaus (formerly Romhof ) is the name of a former noble court of the von Haxthausen family in the Sternstraße 19 in Warburg , district of Höxter, mainly from the 15th century . It is designated as a cultural monument and is now used as the parish hall of the Protestant parish of Warburg.
history
The oldest part of the complex is a two-story stone hall house from the early 15th century. Its mighty, originally free-standing stepped gables are crowned by three, previously free-standing, stone pillars. The street-side gable is pierced by three tracery wind holes, a fourth opening in the center of the gable is now walled up. In the floor space on the inside, the beginning of the former gable roof, which was one storey lower, can still be seen.
In 1488 Dietrich von Haxthausen sold the farm to two clerics from Warburg , the provost Konrad Thues and the canon Johannes Thues. These initially extended the stone house with a basement hall floor rear building and then raised the main house with a laterally protruding timber-framed storage floor. Most of the stepped gables were built into the facade. To improve the lighting, the stone eaves walls were replaced by half-timbered walls with large window openings. The framework showed the typical forms of the time such as profiled chest latches, curved foot struts and grooved lugs . In 1491 the Thues brothers donated the court to the Kalandsbruderschaft ; This fraternity, which existed in the Middle Ages, has since expired , like many in East Westphalia, with the exception of that of Neuenheerse .
In 1750 the Kaland sold the farm to the vicar of Neustadt, Otto von Hidessen , but reserved the use of the storage room (the "Kalandboden") until 1886. During the Seven Years' War the "tumult around the Romhof" occurred. The Go- and Free Count Petrus Ignatius von Hiddessen, a brother of the vicar, bought flour in the time of need and stored it on the caland floor in the Romhof to sell it abroad. When this became known to the starving population, an excited crowd stormed the house and stole the supplies.
The vicar's heirs sold the court to the Prussian state , which established the royal justice office in 1804 and the royal customs office there in 1818 . In 1833 the building was taken over by the city administration to accommodate the city hospital and in 1850/51 it was extended with a brick side wing that was still in existence.
In 1958, in exchange for rooms in the former Dominican monastery , the house came into the possession of the Protestant parish of Warburg , which, after extensive renovations, used it as their parish hall and named it "Corvinushaus" after the reformer Antonius Corvinus from Warburg .
literature
- Elmar Nolte: On the secular building of the medieval city of Warburg. In: Franz Mürmann (ed.): The city of Warburg. 1036-1986. Contributions to the history of a city. Volume 2. Hermes, Warburg 1986, ISBN 3-922032-07-9 , pp. 137-176.
- Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: Warburg district. With a historical introduction by Gerhard Pfeiffer. Aschendorff, Münster 1939 ( architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 44).
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 57.4 ″ E