Shoemaker's Guild House (Quedlinburg)

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Shoemaker's Guild House
House (left) on a postcard from 1909

The Schuhmachergildehaus is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The building is located at Breite Straße 51, 52 near the confluence of Breiten Straße with the city's market square. Quedlinburg Town Hall is on the opposite side of the street . The somewhat younger building, which is also listed, adjoins Breite Straße 53 to the south . The house part 51 comprises the north, house number 52 the southern part of the building. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is listed in the Quedlinburg Monument Register as a guild house.

Architecture and history

The two-story half - timbered house was built in 1554, to which an inscription refers. Other information gives the year 1553. The council loaned 100 guilders for the construction of the house. The building served the Quedlinburg shoemaker's guild as a guild house , where the guild's meetings also took place.

The building has remains of the half-timbered decorations typical of the Renaissance , such as fan rosettes , cylinder beam heads and ship throats . Striking is the wide cantilevered on the upper floor and the Zwerchhauses . On the mezzanine floor there are small windows, the size and number of which remained unchanged, although originally there was glazing with slug panes .

The gable of the dwelling is provided with crossed struts. In the middle of the dwelling there was a hatch that can still be seen on the inside. On the left was a window that no longer exists today.

The roof of the house was built as a rafter roof using wooden nails . Parts of the roof structure come from a previous building, which was probably located in the same place and are therefore older than the current building.

A striking feature of the building is the narrow passage to the courtyard side, the Schuhhof , in the middle of the building . There is a two-storey side wing on the north side, which was also built in half-timbered construction and belongs to the Schuhhof. The passage is decorated with a donkey back profile .

The entrance to the Gildehaus was right next to the passage to the Schuhhof. The lintel above the entrance was also decorated with a donkey back profile. There were large windows next to the entrances, some of which had shutters . To draw attention to the shoemaker's guild, boots hung in front of the entrance. On market days there was also a display of goods. Presumably the display took place on fold-out tables attached to the house wall, as they are still preserved in the Schuhhof.

Drawing from 1873, recognizable the bay window with stilted feet

Noteworthy was a bay window in front of the north side of the building, which is also shown in several older drawings and paintings. It was two compartments wide and rested, among other things, on its own pedestal with head braces . This pedestal was inserted in 1682 in place of a previously existing column. The bay window is likely to have its origins in the construction period, but was later dismantled.

The assembly room of the guild was formerly located on the upper floor facing the market. The rich furnishings of this room can still be seen in some approaches on the side of house number 52. The windows of the storey were originally designed as cross-frame windows .

A large number of modifications were made. The building was separated into two residential and business units at a time that has not been handed down. This created large shop windows on the ground floor, separated for two shops. This separation already existed at least in 1889. This year, a bakery with an oven was set up on the right-hand side for master baker Schröder . There was a double door with an adjoining window. In 1896, at the request of master brush maker Goebel, a larger shop window including an entrance door was made. The old half-timbered construction was removed. Steel girders were inserted to the side and above the window openings. Above on this side four windows were renewed at the same time and the old parapet bars removed. In 1901, cast iron pillars were used to frame the window area on the ground floor.

About 20 years later, the pillars were removed again. The shop windows were expanded and the area was framed with a profiled wooden plank.

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. 743.
  • CC Heinrich in Fachwerk educational trail, a tour through Quedlinburg from the Middle Ages to the 19th century , Deutsches Fachwerkzentrum Quedlinburg eV, Quedlinburg 2011, ISBN 3-937648-13-5 , page 92 ff.
  • 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. 102.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 102.
  2. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 145
  3. ↑ Information on the half-timbered educational trail to the Schuhmachergildehaus

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '22.1 "  N , 11 ° 8' 32.4"  E