Walkenrieder Hof

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The Walkenrieder Hof on the corner lot Waisenstraße 7 and Dr.-Wilhelm-Külz-Straße 8 is a monument of the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia . It is a building complex with half-timbered extensions, the oldest part of which was built in the 13th century as a warehouse and granary for the Walkenried monastery in the old town. The devastating air raids on Nordhausen in April 1945 caused only minor damage, which is why the Walkenrieder Hof is now one of the oldest secular buildings in the city.

history

Partial view from the west

The Cistercian monastery Walkenried, founded in 1127, was mainly by Emperor Lothar III. Funded by Süpplingenburg , the heyday of the monastery was in the 12th and 13th centuries. From 1150 Walkenried maintained around 30  grangia and six town yards on the southern, later also on the northern edge of the Harz , as well as one grangie near and one town yard in Würzburg . The monastery's annual income consisted mainly of taxes in kind and had to be stored safely and permanently. For this purpose, the majority of medieval monasteries had so-called grain houses , massive stone buildings with several bulk floors for drying and storing the grain.

The monastery already had a chapel in the old town of Nordhausen before 1292. With the consent of the city council, the adjacent property was acquired for the construction of a granary and accommodation for the administrator. The rights and duties of the inmates of the monastery courtyard were contractually handed down and continued into the 18th century even after the monastery property was dissolved. In 1345 parts of the building complex were rebuilt - barrel vaulted cellars were built. In 1578 the administration of the Walkenried Monastery was taken over by the Counts of Hohnstein , and in 1593 Walkenried fell to the Dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . In 1593, the cathedral convent of Halberstadt enfeoffed the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg with the county of Hohnstein. With this, the monastery buildings, remaining lands and patronage fell to the new sovereigns. Heinrich Julius became administrator . Every time there was a change of ownership, there were disputes with the city council of Nordhausen, who tried to gain permanent possession of the Walkenrieder Hof. Two fires in 1540 and 1712 damaged the building, but the massive outer walls always remained intact. The different window shapes are evidence of further renovation work and changes in use after the fires.

From 1802 the building was used as a main station, then as the rent office of the city of Nordhausen. From the middle of the 19th century it was used as a main customs office , main tax office and city ​​archive . After 1990 it was used as a museum depot and houses parts of the Nordhausen city administration. According to a resolution passed by the city council in 2018, the building in need of renovation is to be sold.

Building views

  • Partial view from the west (Dr.-Wilhelm-Külz-Straße 8) - west wing of the building

  • West wing of the building

  • View of Waisenstrasse, partial view of the north wing, the half-timbered house behind it was the former orphanage

  • Windows on the ground floor, north wing

literature

  • Johann Gottfried Hoche: Complete history of the Counts of Hohenstein, the Lords of Lohra… . Franke and Bispinck, Hall 1790 ( e-copy )
  • Karl Volckmar: The history of the Walkenried monastery school . Büchting, Nordhausen 1857 ( e-copy ) ( review ).
  • Friedrich and Walther Reinboth: Walkenried time table . Outline of the local and monastery history. 2nd Edition. Walkenried 1989 (compiled from documented and literary sources).
  • Josef Dolle (. Ed) by preparatory work by Walter Baumann: Urkundenbuch of the convent Walkenried Volume 1: . From the beginnings to 1300. In: Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Sources and research on the Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte Volume 38 (=  publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen ). tape 210 . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-7752-6010-2 .
  • Nicolaus Heutger: Walkenried Monastery . History and present. Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86732-018-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church history in Nordhausen - Part 2. Accessed on February 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Johann Gottfried Hoche: Complete history… . Pp. 112-116
  3. ↑ Johann Gottfried Hoche: Complete history… . Pp. 114-116
  4. ^ Sights - City of Nordhausen. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  5. ^ City of Nordhausen parted with two remarkable properties. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 28.7 ″  E