Weinberghaus (Görlitz)

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Vineyard house with vineyard tower
The vineyard house around 1890

The vineyard house around 1890

Data
place Goerlitz
Construction year 1889/1890
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '12.1 "  N , 14 ° 59' 22.4"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '12.1 "  N , 14 ° 59' 22.4"  E

The Weinberghaus is a wooden house in the Swiss style on the slope of the vineyard in Görlitzer Südstadt . The Weinberghaus was used as an excursion restaurant until the mid-1980s and has been closed since then. Right next to the house is the Weinberg Tower - a lookout tower also made of wood. The tower has been renovated and can be climbed. From the top of the two walkways there is a view from the Neißeauen in the east over the Weinlache, the Volksbad area, the Weinhübel district and the Berzdorfer See in the south to the Landeskrone in the west. The ensemble of buildings is on the property at An der Landskronbrauerei 902 at the southern end of the street.

history

Today's Weinberg Tower was built in 1885 by the Görlitz branch of the Riesengebirgsverein on the exhibition grounds of the trade and industrial exhibition on today's Lutherplatz . It was already on the exhibition grounds in the vicinity of a restaurant next to the Drachenfelsen - the current location of the Luther Church . The tower belonged to the restaurant and the lower gallery was connected to the restaurant by a covered walkway. A lift went up to the first meeting.

After the end of the exhibition, the Görlitz local group donated the tower to the city, which had it erected on the vineyard site in 1887. The vineyard house, on the other hand, was built between 1889 and 1890 on the still unwooded slope. Two years earlier, a footbridge was built west of the vineyard house over the cut in the vineyard. The bridge existed until the early 1980s. It was blown up by a unit of the Löbauer Officers' College. Today there are only four pillars on the bridge.

View over the Volksbad area to the Weinberghaus and the tower around 1970

The restaurant had to be closed in 1988 due to pest infestation of the wooden parts. The tower was closed to visitors as early as 1970. The inn has been empty since then. In 2005, a real estate agent in Bremen, Philipp Metz, bought the house and tower. The first renovation work began on the house. The tower was restored in 1990. In 2006, the association in vino sanitas signed a lease agreement with the owner for the tower. Thanks to various donors, the wooden structure was secured and partially renewed. The inner wooden stairs only had to be repaired. The walkways, the external cladding and the zinc sheet covering of the roof had to be repaired at great expense. The association had almost 80,000 euros in funding from the ERDF program available for the renovation . One-euro jobbers from the employment agency also helped with the repairs.

Building

Refurbished vineyard tower

The vineyard house was built on a square floor plan. The Swiss-style house, largely made of wood, once had a covered walkway. Parts of the tour were later integrated into the inn as a converted veranda. The veranda is supported on the slope side with several pillars.

The carved decorations in the roof area are reserved. The house facade is structured on each of the four sides by a central projection. The decorative gables are located on the decapitated tent roof at these points . The roof was renovated in 2004. The historical interior is no longer preserved.

The neighboring wooden observation tower rests on a massive substructure. Above the masonry base of the tower, the first passage encloses the tower at a height of eight meters. The second, higher corridor is 20 meters away. 103 steps with several mezzanines lead up to the upper viewing platform. Overall, the tower measures a height of 33 meters. The construction of the tower consists of a half-timbered sleeper, four corner pillars, wind braces, trestle frames and bracing St. Andrew's crosses . At the time of the exhibition, a clock with a protective roof was installed halfway up.

Web links

Commons : Weinberghaus (Görlitz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b From the Chronicle . In: Saxon newspaper . August 25, 2012 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  2. ↑ From the chronicle . In: Saxon newspaper . November 28, 2009 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  3. ^ Ernst Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 3-932693-63-9 , p. 249 .
  4. ↑ Erich Feuerriegel: Viticulture gave a park its name . In: Saxon newspaper . July 14, 2012 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  5. ↑ a b c City Administration Görlitz - Lower Monument Protection Authority (ed.): At the Landskron Brewery 902 - Weinberghaus . 2012 (published on the occasion of the Open Monument Day).
  6. ↑ a b c Erich Feuerriegel: The observation tower at the Weinberghaus even had a lift at the first location . In: Saxon newspaper . March 4, 2009 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  7. ↑ Memory of the industrial show . In: Saxon newspaper . September 6, 2012 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  8. ↑ a b Erich Feuerriegel: Ascent is seldom possible . In: Saxon newspaper . August 11, 2012 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  9. ↑ Peter Chemnitz: The tower has no tendency to fall . In: Saxon newspaper . March 16, 2007 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  10. ↑ a b Christian Suhrbier: Work on the vineyard tower has started . In: Saxon newspaper . April 17, 2007 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).
  11. ↑ Ingo Kramer: The Weinberghaus slumbers on . In: Saxon newspaper . February 5, 2009 ( online [accessed September 17, 2012]).