Sugar loaf turned inside out

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The Upside Down Sugar Loaf (2014)

The Everted Sugar Loaf is a half-timbered house in Hildesheim , which is characterized by bold projections on three facade fronts. It is located next to the pillar house at the northeast exit of Andreasplatz to Hohen Weg at the address Andreasplatz No. 29 .

The ground floor of the house has a floor area of ​​17 m², while the second floor has an area of ​​29 m². The inverted conical shape is reminiscent of a sugar loaf turned upside down . The reason for the unusual construction was the use of a small plot of land.

The original half-timbered house was built around 1510. It was destroyed in the Second World War during the air raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 1945 and was reconstructed between 2009 and 2010.

reconstruction

After an initial initiative failed in 2002, the “Hildesheim Old Town Guild” planned the reconstruction of the building from 2009. On February 4, 2009, the city development committee of Hildesheim unanimously decided to rebuild the building. Construction began on November 9, 2009; The topping-out ceremony was planned for mid-December 2009 and the completion of the building on the 65th anniversary of the air raid on Hildesheim on March 22, 2010.

The topping-out ceremony was postponed to February 3, 2010 due to the weather, and the rebuilt building was inaugurated on October 8, 2010.

  • Everted Sugar Loaf (right) together with the pillar house destroyed in World War II (left) between 1890 and 1900

  • Drawing of the pre-war state

  • Reconstruction in 2010

  • The Everted Sugar Loaf at Sankt Andreas (May 2012)

Web links

Commons : Everted Sugar Loaf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ statement by Rudolf Zodler (Editor on behalf of the city of Hildesheim) Hildesheim. Länderdienst-Verlag, Brilon 1956, p. 15. The year 1648 can sometimes be found on the Internet as the year of construction.
  2. ↑ Rekoliste: Upended Sugarloaf in Hildesheim. In: stadtbild-deutschland.de. Cityscape Germany e. V., June 18, 2006, archived from the original on May 1, 2009 ; Retrieved October 2, 2007 .
  3. ↑ Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung of October 15, 2009, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Upside Down Sugar Loaf: Controversial Reconstruction. In: hildesheimer-allgemeine.de. Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, accessed on January 9, 2017 (collection of 12 newspaper articles on the subject.).

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 8.1 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 59.6 ″  E