Schlieffhaus
The Schlieffhaus , in Polish Dom Schlieffów, was built in 1520 in the brick Gothic style on Brotbänkengasse (now translated: ul. Chlebnicka 14) in the right town of Gdansk . It is said to be the only Gothic bourgeois house in Gdansk.
history
The seven-storey late Gothic brick Gothic building was named after the Schlieff family, who came from Kolberg and descended from the local mayor, Hans Schlief (see also Schlieffen (noble family) ). The family was able to make a large fortune in Gdansk and bought the house in 1616. The patrician family was also represented in the city council on various occasions.
The three-axle brick building has a high attic and is closed off by a straight crenellated crown. The stone for the facade of the house is said to have been made in Venice around 1360 for parts of a palace in Nuremberg . Around 1480 the late Gothic facade was transported to Gdansk, where it was then used in Brodbänken Gasse at this patrician house.
After 1800 the building was in a desolate condition and threatened to collapse. The Gdańsk city administration was not ready to support the redevelopment. In 1822 the house owners decided to dismantle the beautiful facade after a thorough inventory. It was sold to an anonymous buyer. It turned out that the buyer was the court marshal of the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III . 287 numbered facade elements with a weight of 3.7 tons were transported on a three-master ship on the waterway over the Baltic Sea and Oder to Potsdam . On the Pfaueninsel in the Havel in Berlin-Wannsee , a cavalier house was built in 1804, consisting of a three-story building section and a four-story tower at the side. According to plans by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel , a right tower was added to this house in 1824/1825, which corresponded to the Schlieffhaus. The facade was used again true to the original. The Kavaliershaus is therefore also known as the Danzig House .
During the reconstruction of Gdansk after the Second World War , the city decided to restore the Schlieffhaus with a reconstructed facade in the street Chlebnicka , the former Brotbänkengasse with the Brotbänkentor . This was done in the 1970s on the basis of precise measurements on the original on Pfaueninsel.
The Schlieffhaus is now used as the dormitory of the Art Academy (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) in Gdansk and is a listed building.
The collection of books and manuscripts by Valentin Schlieff is now in the library of the regional Danzig department of the Polish Academy of Sciences .
Literature, sources
- Gregor Geismeier: The Danzig House on the Pfaueninsel. In: The Mark Brandenburg. Issue 53, Marika Großer Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-910134-32-4 .
- Axel Menges: Book series about individual European architecture; Volume 13: The Peacock Island. 1993, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, ISBN 3-8030-2713-6 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 55.2 ″ N , 18 ° 39 ′ 18.2 ″ E