Vossenhus

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The Vossenhus.

The Vossenhus is a listed building in the East Frisian town of Norden ( district of Aurich , Lower Saxony ). It has the address Am Markt 8. The city ​​library has been using the building since 1983 .

description

The building's eaves facing the market essentially consists of a stone house from the early 16th century in the north (left) half of the building. This original building faced the market without a gable , was 7.2 meters wide and 18 meters long.

The masonry consists of bricks in the monastery format . Among them are several bricks glazed in the colors ocher , green and black , of which the black ones were walled up at the time of construction so that they formed diamond patterns that clearly stood out from the surrounding masonry in ocher-green. The stones were built with clay and grouted with shell limestone .

Ceiling beams and floorboards are made of oak . The hipped roof is supported by a horizontal roof truss, which is also made of oak. It has been preserved in its original state to this day.

On the market side facing located in the left middle area between two windows a sandstone -plate where the relief is one of vines entwined fox can be seen. Below are the words Gasthoff im Weinberge von Voss .

The windows on the south and north sides are half-axial . They once had lockable wooden hatches in the lower area , while the upper part was lead-glazed . A similar construction can be found in the neighboring House Vienna, which was built at the same time . On the eaves side , a skylight with a winch has been preserved, which was once used to transport loads to the attic.

history

It is unknown when the building was constructed. According to a document from 1606, the earliest known owner was the later Drost der Friedeburg , Ulrich Harringa or Hayo Beners. Both details come from Eberhard Pühl, who has dealt intensively with the history of the house. On the website of the North City Library, Pühl names "Drost Ulrich Harringa, who lived in the 16th century" as the earliest owner and his brother-in-law and mayor Otto Loringa in 1605 as the subsequent owner, in his 2007 work, Old Brick Houses in East Friesland and Jeverland. it is said, however, that the oldest known owner is Hayo Beners, named in 1606.

In 1616 the house was owned by Jobst Warner ( Conring ) according to a tax list . Jobst was the first of a long line of land rent masters of the East Frisian estates . How the house came into his possession is unknown. He sold the house to an unknown buyer in 1632.

The Voss family of wine merchants , from whom the house takes its name, bought the house in the early 18th century. A member of the family, Lambert Voss, set up an inn there in 1781, presumably existing until 1871. Lambert also had the sandstone plaque with the fox attached to the building.

In 1870 the family sold the property to master confectioner Thomas Jodokus Heddinga, whose family ran a chocolate, marzipan and candy factory there until 1934. The building was then the seat of the agricultural trading company Mennenga & Poppinga until 1972 . After that, the building was so dilapidated that it was threatened with demolition in 1974 . It is only thanks to the initiative of some volunteers that the house was saved. They carried out important measures to secure the building. The city of Norden finally had it converted from 1980 to December 1982 by an architecture firm from neighboring Berum into the city library, which has been based there since 1983.

literature

  • Eberhard Pühl: The Vossenhus in the north. A monument and its history . North 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Name according to the website of the North City Library that uses the building. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  2. ^ City of the north: List of monuments . Retrieved October 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Eberhard Pühl: The Vossenhus in the north . Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Eberhard Pühl: Old brick houses in East Friesland and in Jeverland. Brick buildings from the 15th to 19th centuries . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 3-89995-323-1 , p. 163.
  5. ↑ a b Johann Haddinga , Martin Stromann: Norden / Norddeich - An East Frisian coastal town introduces itself . Verlag SKN, Norden 2001, ISBN 3-928327-43-7 , p. 74.
  6. ↑ Walter Deeters : Conring <Fam.> . In: Martin Tielke (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland . Vol. 1. Aurich 1993. ISBN 3-925365-75-3 . Pp. 79-80. Also available online.

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 44.1 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 22.2 ″  E