City history museum of the Hanseatic city of Wismar

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Schabbellhaus in Wismar in 2006
Schabbellhaus in Wismar in 2018

The City History Museum of the Hanseatic City of Wismar is located in the so-called Schabbellhaus .

building

The building now used as a museum was built around 1569–1571 by the Dutch builder Philipp Brandin for the councilor and later mayor of the city of Wismar , Hinrich Schabbell (1531–1600), as a merchant's house (residential and commercial building) and a brewery in the early Renaissance style the Schweinsbrücke built over the fresh pit . After later owners, the building was also called the Kochsche Brewery .

On behalf of Schabbell, the house was erected facing the street; the representative gable with clear echoes of the Dutch Renaissance faces the side street at the Frischen Grube and thus has a defining effect on the cityscape. The two Renaissance portals on the street with the two coats of arms of the Schabbell couple create a certain balance. The design of the gable by Brandin is said to be based on templates by Hans Vredeman de Vries published by the publisher Hieronymus Cock .

Exhibition and collections

The museum documents the time when Wismar belonged to the Hanseatic League and the Swedish era in Wismar, when the Hanseatic city belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden from the end of the Thirty Years War until the beginning of the 19th century. The 19th century is documented by a collection of works by the Mecklenburg painter Carl Canow , who worked in Wismar . The museum also keeps the only original Wismar Swedish head preserved .

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprint Schwerin 1992, p. 202 ff. ISBN 3-910179-06-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ House biography Schweinsbrücke 8 ( Memento of 9 July 2007 at the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Schlie (1898), p. 202 ff., There footnote 1 with reference to Pictores, statuarii ... adeste: et hunc libellum varias Coenotaphiorum, tumulorum et mortuorum monumentorum formas ... in aere exaratas comprehendentem inspicitote ... et ingeniosae manui Joannes Vredemannus Frisius, quae has excogitavit et liberalitati Hieronymi Cock, cuius impensis haec vobis exhibentur, bene favete, Antwerp 1563.

Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 42.2 "  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 59.3"  E