White angel
The house Weißer Engel is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The corner house is located at Lange Gasse 33 on the corner of Altetopfstraße north of the Quedlinburger Schlossberg and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .
Architecture and history
The house was built in 1623. The lower area is a massive construction and has a mezzanine and profiled rectangular windows. The upper floor is built in half-timbered construction with a threshold decorated with a dew bar. The building is covered by a half-hip roof . The building is registered as a merchant's house in the Quedlinburg monument register.
To the west is a two-storey side wing that was built in the second half of the 17th century. Its facade was redesigned in the classical style around 1850/1860 . A plaster block with a frieze and stucco moldings was created .
In the years between 1980 and 1986, the building was expanded to become the headquarters of the VEB Monument Preservation of the Halle district . For this purpose, a new side wing was added to the west as a connection to Altetopfstraße 2, which also belongs to the company's headquarters . The basement of the White Angel was initially thought to be a massive replacement for a former half-timbered construction that was built around 1900. In order to clarify the question of whether a half-timbered reconstruction is possible, the plaster was removed at the request of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments . Wall parts from the early 17th century, including two original windows from the Renaissance period, were found on the ground floor and mezzanine . A massive reconstruction of the basement was therefore carried out. Inside the building, the floor was lowered to the previous level. The formerly existing mezzanine floor was identified by adding a gallery.
The side to the courtyard was renewed in 1985 in massive construction. In 1986 the house was handed over after the restoration.
Inside the main house there is a ceiling with twelve stucco reliefs, each 0.80 by 1.00 meters in size, showing six scenes from the Book of Tobias of the Old Testament and the five senses. The twelfth wall relief shows a representation of the nosce te ipsum (German: know yourself! ). It is the only ceiling design of this kind in Quedlinburg. It dates from the second half of the 17th century. During the renovation work in the 1980s, the reliefs were cleaned and supplemented.
In 2006, the acquired life coaching resin Circle Quedlinburg the building complex. The side wing was completely converted into apartments for people with disabilities. The head building with angel room, gallery and vaulted cellar remains accessible and usable for the public, e.g. B. through various exhibitions and events. The premises can also be rented for institutions or privately.
literature
- Paul Schwarz: The stucco pictures in the White Angel in Quedlinburg. In: Die Denkmalpflege , Volume 5, No. 12 (September 16, 1903), pp. 93–96.
- Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 753.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 168.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 105 f.
- ↑ Christa Rienäcker, Quedlinburger Stadtgeschichte in Daten in Festschrift 1000 Years of Market, Minting and Customs Law Quedlinburg , publisher: Stadt Quedlinburg, 1994, page 156
- ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 64
- ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 106
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 16.4 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 14.8" E
Lange Gasse 2-4 | Lange Gasse 7 | Lange Gasse 8 | Lange Gasse 9 | Long Alley 10 | Lange Gasse 11 | Lange Gasse 12 | Long Alley 13 | Lange Gasse 14 (Propsteivorwerk) | Lange Gasse 16 | Lange Gasse 17 | Long Alley 20 | Lange Gasse 21 | Long Alley 22 | Long Alley 23 | Lange Gasse 24 | Lange Gasse 25 | Lange Gasse 26 | Lange Gasse 26a (Vitzthum von Eckstedtscher Freihof) | Long Alley 27 | Lange Gasse 28 | Lange Gasse 29 | Long Alley 30 | Lange Gasse 31 | Lange Gasse 32 | Lange Gasse 33 (White Angel)