Weber's court

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Weber's Court (2007)

Webers Hof is a historic town house in Leipzig's Hainstrasse 3. It is a typical example of the transition from Renaissance to Baroque in the city and is a listed building.

Building description

The part of the building complex facing Hainstrasse is a three-storey building 30 meters in length with twelve window axes . The front is slightly bent in front of the two southern axes. In front of the middle two, a wooden bay window hangs over the first and second floors . This is decorated on the first floor with putti holding fruit garlands and on the second with crossing horns of plenty. A four-axis frontispiece rises above the bay window in the attic . It is structured by half-columns, framed by two volutes and two stone vases. The triangular gable with a shell motif is guarded by two lions on the outside. The shell motif also appears on two double dormer windows . The other single-window dormers are unadorned and functional.

  • Gaupen and Frontispiece (2010)

  • The Portal (2010)

  • In the courtyard (2011)

A sandstone portal with a signature leads to a small inner courtyard of around 40 square meters. Its north side is bounded by a new building with a curtain-type glass and steel facade. On the east side there is a three-storey stair tower with sloping windows. Behind him run corridors with arched openings.

A corridor leads through the western boundary building to Barthel's court and thus turns Weber's court into a through courtyard. In summer there are theater performances in the courtyard.

history

Right center: four window axes of Weber's yard, which has been extended by two floors, next to Barthel's yard around 1870

The master bricklayer and later council mason of Leipzig Christian Richter (around 1625–1684) built the house at Hainstrasse 3 in 1662 with the help of the existing building fabric with a box bay window, frontispiece, stair tower and arcades in the courtyard. He created the first town house in the Baroque style in Leipzig, which shaped the town's town house building as a model until 1700, when Johann Gregor Fuchs (1650–1715) became a council builder in Leipzig and further developed the Leipzig Baroque.

In 1845 the master bricklayer Friedrich Lüders remodeled and expanded the building, and in 1847 the building was extended by two storeys. The classicist portal was built in 1872 and in 1875 the merchant Karl Friedrich Weber took over the farm, giving it the name that is still valid today.

During the Second World War , the courtyard buildings were completely destroyed and the front building was badly damaged. In the early 1990s, Webers Hof belonged to the property in Leipzig owned by the building contractor Jürgen Schneider . A comprehensive reconstruction was carried out between 1995 and 1997, with the two floors being removed and - at least on the front of the building - restored to the condition of 1662 as a historical monument. That was possible because there is a sketchbook by Christian Richter about the building in the Leipzig City Archives . The former arcades were indicated by the corridors behind the stair tower.

literature

Web links

Commons : Webers Hof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Leipzig center (ID 09298290)
  2. ^ Theater in Weber's court. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ "Schneider Objects" in Leipzig City. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '28.8 "  N , 12 ° 22' 26.1"  E