Weichs'scher Hof
The Weichs'sche Hof is a representative noble house in the old town of Arnsberg . It is named after the von Weichs family who used the building as their city seat .
description
The building is immediately behind the bell tower . It was built in its current form after the city fire of 1600. The building goes back to far older predecessors. Parts of the oldest masonry date from the High Middle Ages . The basement has loopholes. This points to a time before the formation of the lower town, when the forerunner of the house was part of the defense of what is now the upper town.
The ground floor in the front building is made of stone, while the upper floor is half-timbered . The hipped roof has a crane house on the street side. Between the first floor and the first floor there is the inscription “ PAX INTRANTIBUS SALUS EXEVNTIBUS ANNO 1601 DIE XXIII, IVLII ” (German: “Friede den Einsteigenden - Glück den Scheidenden; in 1601, July 23”). Another inscription implores the protection of Jesus from plague, hunger, war and fire (“ A PESTE, FAME, BELLO, ET INCENDO, LIBERA NOS, DOMINE, JESUV, SALVATOR, NOSTER. ”) There are anchor numbers on the southern eaves side the date 1675, which indicates a renovation or something similar at that time. A painted cast iron stove plate with a Westphalian horse and the year 1768 is attached above the baroque entrance portal with cranked robe profiles and skylight .
Behind the front door is a large hall, which is dominated by a staircase made of dark wood. Representative rooms that are up to 4.5 m high are located on both sides of the entrance area. The old floors, wall cupboards and four of the original nine fireplaces have been preserved. The doors and door frames are up to 400 years old. Parts of the historic kitchen with a brick fireplace have also been preserved. One of the representative rooms was used for audiences. It is dominated by a fireplace and has stucco ceilings and large lattice windows.
Originally the main entrance was in the garden facade. It was only later that the entrance was moved to its current location. A conservatory to the southwest was added in 1890.
The rear building also has a massive ground floor. There are still stone mullion windows on the west wall. The upper floor of the rear building also consists of half-timbering. This contains partially carved wooden fillers.
Connected to the south of these buildings by a small intermediate building is the so-called temple house. One of the owners, Dietrich Gaudenz von Dücker, had tried to have it demolished in order to build a barn there, but could not prevail against the magistrate. He argued that there "was always a disgusting bourgeois dwelling house". The archway bears the year 1675, which indicates renovation work at the time of Dücker.
The park-like garden is about 2500 m² and was laid out in terraces because of the steep hillside location. There is a larger and a small level. In the smaller area there used to be a herb garden. There are still vaults under the terraces.
history
Nothing is known about the beginnings of the house and its first owners. A Latin inscription states that Georg Morch, the highly famous, venerable, Lord Elector of Cologne Council, Mayor of Arnsberg and Anna Wiedenbrück , restored this house in August 1638, the year of salvation . The complex was later owned by the head waiter Dietrich Gaudenz von Dücker before it passed into the possession of the von Weichs family. They had it since the 18th century at the latest. The last electoral landdrost, Clemens August von Weichs, lived there .
In Rudolf von Essl's city view from 1669, the house, like other notable buildings in the city, is shown disproportionately large. At the end of the 19th century, the later Chancellor Georg Michaelis lived in the house , who at that time was a senior councilor in the Arnsberg government . To commemorate the birth of his son, Michaelis planted a linden tree in the forecourt of the property, which is still there today. Later the Jewish Steinmann family lived in the house.
The building was owned by the von Weichs family until 1990 and was rented out for residential purposes before it was sold. After it was temporarily vacant, it was acquired by new owners, who extensively renovated the entire complex in accordance with historical monuments. It served at times as a private music academy and parts of the upper floor were converted for the needs of music performances. Today it is used for residential purposes.
literature
- Uwe Haltaufderheide: The architectural monuments of the city of Arnsberg . Collection period 1980–1990. Ed .: City of Arnsberg. Arnsberg 1990, ISBN 3-928394-01-0 , p. 41-42 .
- Ferdy Fischer , Matthias Regniet: The Weichs'sche Hof in the old town of Arnsberg - music is now playing in the old aristocratic palace . In: Arnsberger Heimatbund e. V. (Ed.): Heimatblätter . Journal of the Arnsberger Heimatbund e. V. issue 18, 1997, ISSN 1612-538X , p. 84–88 ( table of contents [PDF; 121 kB ; accessed on April 7, 2013]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingrid Reissland: “… specific role models of the electoral residences instead of Arnsberg…” in 1669 . Rudolf von Essl's view of the city from a motivational point of view. In: Arnsberger Heimatbund e. V. (Ed.): Heimatblätter . Journal of the Arnsberger Heimatbund e. V. issue 18, 1997, ISSN 1612-538X , p. 22 ( Table of Contents [PDF; 121 kB ; accessed on April 7, 2013]).
- ↑ Karl Föster: The Michaelis linden tree between the bell tower and the house of Weichs . In: Arnsberger Heimatbund e. V. (Ed.): Heimatblätter . Journal of the Arnsberger Heimatbund e. V. Issue 11, 1990, ISSN 1612-538X , p. 70 ( Table of Contents [PDF; 97 kB ; accessed on April 7, 2013]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '52.6 " N , 8 ° 3' 48" E