Veltheim's house

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The Von Veltheimsche Haus on the north side of Burgplatz in Braunschweig is a half-timbered house from 1573.

The Veltheim House today
Between 1890 and 1905: In the center of Burgplatz the Braunschweiger Löwe , to the left behind the Veltheimsche Haus.

It was built in 1573 by Achatz von Veltheim auf Harbke and Margareta von Saldern , documented by an inscription with two coats of arms above the passage. Today, next to the Brunswick Cathedral, it is the oldest building on Burgplatz, an aristocratic town house with three residential floors and a lateral passage, without a mezzanine floor and storage. The house has a rare form of multi-storey promontory (a woman's seat with a view of the street) and a large bay window that was renovated in 1868. The upper floors protrude. On the thresholds there is a braided band frieze as a diamond band with knots as an abstraction from the leaves. Above the beam heads from the stone building, diamond blocks as an ornamented rectangular surface , on the posts rows of pearls in a horseshoe shape. There are roller brackets under the threshold (renewed on the ground floor).

Use in the 20th century

When the Villa Rimpau , the seat of the NSDAP district leadership in Braunschweig, was badly damaged by the bombing of October 15, 1944 , the district leadership moved into the Veltheim house. It stayed there until the city of Braunschweig was handed over on April 12, 1945. On April 15, the US military administration under Colonel Brodie moved into the house. On June 5, 1945, command finally passed to the British armed forces , as Braunschweig was now part of the British zone of occupation . After this was removed and the building was renovated in 1974/75, it is now used by the Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Stade Chamber of Crafts .

literature

  • Peter Giesau: Veltheimsches Haus , In: Camerer, Garzmann, Schuegraf, Pingel (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 .

Web links

Commons : Veltheimsches Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung (Ed.): End of War , Braunschweiger Zeitung Spezial ', No. 2 (2005), Braunschweig 2005, p. 63
  2. ^ Chronicle of the city of Braunschweig for 1945

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 53.5 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 23.7"  E