Salfeld's Palace

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Salfeld's Palace
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The Salfeldsche Palais is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . It is the seat of the German Foundation for Monument Protection in the city.

location

It is located north of the town's market square at Kornmarkt 5 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . It is registered as a palace in the Quedlinburg monument register. To the east is the also listed building at Kornmarkt 6 .

Architecture and history

The baroque three-storey palace was built in the years 1734 to 1737 by council chamberlain Röttger Salfeld, according to other information from Ekkard Salfeld, largely as a new building and has largely been preserved in its original form. It was built as a half-timbered house with a massive facade. The property had already been owned by the family at the end of the 17th century. Röttger Saalfeldt's father ran an inn here.

Covered the building with a with slate -covered mansard roof . The stone facade is decorated with monumental pilasters . It is divided into three central and two side window axes. The middle part is designed like a risalit . In the center of the building is the arched portal. Above the portal with its carved door leaves is a heraldic cartouche . Within the passage is a with stucco provided fields ceiling . The building rests on a high rectangular plinth. The side windows on the first floor are spanned by gables curved in the Chinese style. The diaphragm is crowned by a segmented gable. On the courtyard side, the house is kept simpler. The large dwelling located here also has a segmented gable and is also provided with a loading hatch . The gargoyles on the house are designed as dragon heads.

After Röttger Salfeldt's death, the family rented out the property. In 1785 the building came into the possession of the city of Quedlinburg and was initially used by the respective monastery governor. From 1815 it was used as a district court . It was used as a court in the GDR until the fall of the Wall. In 1997 the building and the adjoining house No. 5 were bought by the German Foundation for Monument Protection and then thoroughly restored by 2001.

Inside the building there is a representative, rectangular staircase. There are various state rooms with precious doors, paneling and stucco on the ceilings, walls and the chimneys . The stucco ceilings were created in the Régence style and, like the similar works in Quedlinburg Castle, were created by Michael Caminada and Carlo Rossi . The stucco ceilings were damaged by fire extinguishing water at the Kornmarkt 3 fire in New Year 2005 and were subsequently restored. Overall, the baroque room layout has been preserved, in particular there are so-called enfilades on the upper floors . Above the passage is a lavishly decorated ballroom on the first floor, which is decorated with pilasters , garlands and canopies on the chimneys. There are over- portals . Birds and musicians are depicted, with the musicians depicted as Mohr and Turk. Bird motifs are themed in one neighboring room, and the continents in another. On the second floor, the ceiling paintings in the middle fields have not been preserved. The building has vaulted cellars, which are crowned with stitch caps .

In the courtyard of the property there is a storage building from the early 19th century and a baroque side wing, the compartments of which are provided with decorative brickwork. Originally the farm buildings completely spanned the courtyard.

In 2013, the palace was of importance as the presumed location of a decision in the state politics of Saxony-Anhalt. According to presumptions in the press, Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) and Finance Minister Jens Bullerjahn (SPD) agreed on the evening of April 17, 2013 in the Palais on the sidelines of the opening of a conference on UNESCO World Heritage Sites that the State of Science and Economics Minister Birgitta Wolff ( CDU).

use

Today the building is used as a conference center in connection with No. 5, a conference hall was built on the courtyard side on the historical granary and a restaurant was reopened in the vault. Likewise, the association UNESCO World Heritage Sites Germany e. V. has its seat there.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer u. a .: Administrative region of Magdeburg. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 752
  2. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 157
  3. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer: Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage . Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 14
  4. ↑ a b website of the Palais Salfeldt
  5. ↑ Baroque and modern in the half-timbered town - the Palais Salfeldt in Quedlinburg. In: Monuments Online - The magazine of the German Foundation for Monument Protection. German Foundation for Monument Protection , December 2010, accessed on January 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Christopher Kissmann, Elisa Sowieja, Torsten Scheer: Jens Bullerjahn threatened to resign . In: Volksstimme , April 23, 2013, p. 1

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 26.3 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 33.5"  E