Executioner's House (Vorsfelde)
The former executioner's house is a residential building in the Wolfsburg district of Vorsfelde in Lower Saxony . After a fire in the town in 1607, it was built as an eaves bourgeois farm and is a listed building .
description
The half-timbered house is a single-storey residential building. It has a characteristic overhang of the roof with supporting lugs underneath . It's at a bend in Meinstrasse. In connection with the neighboring house, there is a small space-like area in the kink. There was a 300-year-old chestnut that fell in a storm on Ascension Day 1979.
The previous building was the executioner's house in the village. It burned down in the city fire of 1604 and was rebuilt in its present form for the executioner . It has a massive stone basement that protrudes 1.2 meters from the ground due to the high groundwater level . The basement was also used as a prison. A torture chamber was on the side of the house and was only accessible from the outside. It had a small window that could be closed with a hatch. According to a description of the patch Vorsfelde 1761 the court was of the plot only 60 square meters. The last executioner was Johann Conrad Löwe († 1801), who exercised the office as a part-time job and was a skinner in the district of Vorsfelde in his main job . When a family named Nacke bought the building in 1842, the torture devices were sold; the superintendent of the Provost's Vorsfelde kept the sword . It later came to the Landesmuseum Braunschweig .
The former executioner 's house is the second oldest house in Vorsfelde after the beekeeper's house from 1590.
Board of the local homeland association Vorsfelde on the building
Bar inscription on age and function
Entablature
See also
literature
- Wilhem Spangenberg: Vorsfelder Chronik , Drömling Druck, Vorsfelde, 1975, pp. 172-173
- History of the apron volume 3 . Working group on the history of Vorsfeldes, Vorsfelde 1995, pp. 56–57.
- Meinstraße 14 in Kulturdenkmale Stadt Wolfsburg with city and district parts , publisher Braunschweigische Landschaft , Braunschweig, 2004, pp. 48–50
Web links
- Former executioner's house in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
- Dieter Polte: Heavy boys in the executioner's cellar in Wolfsburger Nachrichten of August 30, 2013
- Journey into the past: In the footsteps of the ancestors in Wolfsburger Allgemeine from September 3, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 26 ″ N , 10 ° 50 ′ 25 ″ E