Schloßberg 2 (Quedlinburg)

Schlossberg 2

Back of the building

View from the north along the street Schloßberg, on the right the house Schloßberg 2; Photo taken in 1977

The house Schloßberg 2 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located southwest of the Quedlinburger Schloßberg at the confluence of the street Schloßberg on the Mühlenstraße and represents the southern end of the row of houses. The house is listed in the Quedlinburg monument register and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Architecture and history

The two-storey half - timbered house was built by the carpenter Andreas Rühle according to a building inscription in 1688 . The inscription M. ANDREAS RUHLE ZIMMERMAN with a coat of arms refers to him . With its wide front, the building faces east towards the Schlossberg. The south gable forms the end of Mühlenstraße. Pyramid beam heads can be found on the half-timbered facade of the residential building . The threshold is profiled.

On the sloping south-east corner of the house there is a memorial plaque that reminds of the cattle gate that originally belonged to the Quedlinburg city fortifications .

literature

• Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 756.
• State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of 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. 226.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 146
2. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 149

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 6.7 ″  E