Steinwerk (Münden)

Complete picture of the stone works

The rear and older part of the stone works

The Münden stone works is a medieval bower in the old town center of Hann. Münden in southern Lower Saxony . The stone works was built in the first half of the 13th century as a secular building in the urban area. It is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the area and is a monument .

description

The stone work stands in a converted inner courtyard of the square that forms the Lange Strasse, Marktstrasse, Sydekumstrasse and Vor der Burg. As a rear building, it borders the back of a half-timbered front building on Langen Strasse. Originally there were connecting doors on every floor between the two buildings, which were bricked up. It can therefore be assumed that the stone works and the front building shared a building plot .

The stone works was built using quarry stone masonry . It has two storeys and is 17 meters long and 8 meters wide. The building in Romanesque style was built in two phases. First, in the first half of the 13th century, a square core building with an edge length of eight meters and a wall thickness of 1.3 meters was built. This is followed by an extension built in the 15th century with 1.1 meter thick walls. Both components are built with a barrel vault .

The stone work was rebuilt several times over the years, which led to changes in the spatial structure, the facade, the window and door openings. On the eastern inner wall of the original building, a window opening has been preserved on the ground floor that is not visible from the outside. Inside there is a twin window with clover leaf arches and a central column. It is dated to the first third of the 13th century based on the chalice capital with long-stemmed leaves and the flattened sausage profiles of the column base. According to a monument conservation assessment, it is a remarkable building sculpture preserved in situ . At another part of the facade, a similar window is suspected that was later converted into a doorway that is present today.

The stone works served as a warehouse for a long time. In the 1960s it was cleared for demolition, which was only omitted with reference to the historic window opening.

literature

Dieter Haupt, Martin Schumacher: The so-called Steinhaus Marktstrasse 11 in Münden. Building research as part of the old town renovation , in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , 4/1991, pp. 145–150
Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Göttingen district, part 1, volume 5.2, 1993, edited by Urs Boeck, Peter F. Lufen and Walter Wulf, Verlag CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, Hameln, pp. 136-137, ISBN 3-87585-251 -6 , pp. 140-141