Mirror courtyard
The Spiegelshof is a monument in the city of Bielefeld in the East Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia . The name Spiegel'scher Hof is also common.
Location and building
The building is located at Kreuzstraße 20 in the Mitte district . The Neustädter Marienkirche is in the immediate vicinity . The narrow sides are provided with crenellated gables. The stairwell dates from 1682. In the rear part of the building, despite constant changes inside, a hall with a basement with a beamed ceiling has been preserved.
history
The Spiegelshof is an aristocratic court, the history of which can be traced back to the year 1334. From then until 1479 at the latest, it belonged to the von Todrang family. It then became the property of those from Spiegel . In 1540, Johann Spiegel von Peckelsheim had it rebuilt in the Weser Renaissance style.
The Wessel family took over the farm in 1820 and set up a post office there in 1840 and a theater in 1847.
In 1927 the city of Bielefeld took over the building. The registry office located there left the courtyard in 1985 to create rooms for the Bielefeld Natural History Museum .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the Spiegel'schen Hof. City of Bielefeld, accessed on November 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Program Day of the Open Monument 2015. (pdf) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; Retrieved November 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 41.9 ″ E