Uphagenhaus Gdansk
The Uphagenhaus is one of the most important architectural monuments in Gdańsk . It was built on Langgasse in the 1780s and 1780s . The first owner, the Danzig merchant and councilor Johann Uphagen , bought the property in 1775 and commissioned the architect Johann Benjamin Dreyer to demolish the existing house and build a new town house. The house remained in the family until 1910.
The building was converted into a museum from 1910, although the floor plan, room layout and even the interior design had remained unchanged since the 18th century. In 1944 the interior was outsourced and survived the war unscathed. The building itself was almost completely destroyed.
From the 1950s, the building was rebuilt according to old plans and photographs and opened in 1998 as a museum of bourgeois living culture. Some rooms could be equipped with their original furniture. The Gdańsk restorers reconstruct the lost elements from old photographs.
During the reconstruction, the photographs from the 1930s from the Drost Collection in the Herder Institute's picture archive were of great importance.
literature
- Walter Mannowsky : The Uphagenhaus in Danzig. A leader . Danzig Publishing Company, Danzig 1933 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Hauke: The community center in East and West Prussia . Tübingen 1967.
- Ewa Szymańska: Chances of Monument Preservation in Gdansk - The Restoration of the Uphage House . In: Mare Balticum. Lübeck 1994, pp. 80-86.
- Willi Drost : The Danzig Uphagenhaus as a way of life , Kulturstiftung d. German expellees, Bonn 2006, ISBN 978-3-88557-216-9 .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 57 " N , 18 ° 38 ′ 57.4" E