Tea house (Aurich)

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The tea house in Aurich

The tea house in the East Frisian district town of Aurich ( Aurich district , Lower Saxony ) is a listed building from the 19th century.

history

Depending on the source, the tea house was built in 1803 or 1807 by the Aurich architect Conrad Bernhard Meyer as a garden house and centerpiece of a pleasure garden for the client Christian Bernhard Conring . For the period from 1937 to 1945 it was expanded into a kindergarten and an extension was added on the southwest side. After the Second World War , the building became the property of the State of Lower Saxony and served as a shelter for the homeless. Over the years there were signs of deterioration. Finally, the city of Aurich bought the building and land from the state on September 10, 1969 for DM 18,199. In 1973 the art sculptor Friedrich Büschelberger rented the tea house as an apartment and studio until his death in 1990, although he finally moved from Aurich in 1986. After the city had the building completely renovated and redesigned in 1992, the Kunstverein Aurich, founded in 1988, found its home there. He has now organized well over 100 exhibitions in the tea house. The building is therefore also known as the art pavilion .

Building description

In his designs for the tea house, Meyer orientated himself on antic temples , which represent one of the oldest and simplest forms of the Greek temple . With its floor plan in the form of a Greek cross, the classicist building looks like a “miniature version of the Reformed Church ”. The porch on the north side is supported by four stylized Corinthian columns. In the original building, the south side also had a portico that no longer exists today, which was similar to the one on the north side. The porch on the south-western side was added to the structure around 1937. Today there is a small kitchen, heating and a toilet.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jana Hampel: Art in the City . In: Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport. State events office (publisher): Lower Saxony Book 2011 . Hameln 2011. p. 89.
  2. ^ A b c Kunstverein Aurich: History of the pavilion . Retrieved October 9, 2014
  3. ↑ aurich.de: Culture Mile. 8th station: art pavilion . Retrieved October 9, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '53.6 "  N , 7 ° 28' 46.2"  E