Schenk's house
The Schenk house is a classicist building in Wiesbaden . The listed building was built between 1813 and 1817 during the ducal-Nassau city expansion on Friedrichstrasse (today No. 32). It is attributed to the Wiesbaden architect Christian Zais . The house got its name from its first inhabitant, the government councilor Carl Friedrich Schenk.
The representative house has seven axes and two floors. In front of the central entrance door of the symmetrical building is a patio resting on Tuscan columns. The hipped roof has five dormers.
history
During the founding process of the Duchy of Nassau , Wiesbaden was designated as the seat of government of the new state in 1806. As a result, Friedrichsstrasse [sic!] Was laid out, which later delimited the historical pentagon to the south. The basis was the development plan drawn up by Carl Florian Goetz , which also included model building regulations for new houses to be built. The pharmacist Otto submitted the building application for the house in accordance with this model building regulation in 1813. According to a statement by Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen in December 1815, the design was made by Christian Zais, an employee of Carl Florian Goetz. Due to financial difficulties, Otto sold the shell to the bookseller Ludwig Schellenberg in 1815 . Before it was completed, he sold the building to Carl Friedrich Schenk, who completed it in 1816.
In the course of the planning for the planned new construction of the city palace on Luisenplatz , the house was acquired by the ducal court because it was in the area of the planned palace courtyard. However, since the castle was then built near the historic city castle on Marktstrasse, the building became the property of the city in 1835. Since 1845 the recipe (tax office) was housed. In 1860 the extension was built in the courtyard of the building and the property was taken over by the police department. After its relocation in 1904, the Schenk house was used in different ways. Among other things, it was the parsonage and kindergarten of the St. Bonifatius parish and, from 1935, again the seat of the 1st police station, which moved to Platz der Deutschen Einheit in 2009.
After the extensive renovation in 2012, the building is now home to the State Foundation for Together in Hesse , the festival office of the GoEast film festival , the Freiwilligenzentrum Wiesbaden eV and various institutions close to the city.
literature
- Sigrid Russ: Cultural monuments in Hessen Wiesbaden I.1 - Historical pentagon . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. 1st edition. tape 1 . Theiss, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-8062-2010-7 .
- Marianne Kreikenbom in the Wiesbadener Tageblatt of August 30, 2013: The Schenksche House in Wiesbaden is again a "pearl of classicism" after the renovation (accessed January 1, 2014)
Web links
- State Foundation Together in Hesse
- goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
- Volunteer Center Wiesbaden eV
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 48.8 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 22.2" E