Word 4, 5 (Quedlinburg)

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House Word 4
Word 5

The house Word 4, 5 is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The building is located in the southern part of the historic Quedlinburg old town. The house is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register as a merchant's house and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Architecture and history

The two-storey half - timbered house was built around 1560. The facade shows decorative forms from the early Renaissance . So you can find beam heads in cylinder form and ship throats with dew bars . In the literature, the house is mentioned as an object with a late occurrence of the decorative shape fan rosette . The upper floor overhangs. There is an old gate passage in house number 4.

A wing of the building on the courtyard side was built in the 17th century.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 57

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 16.1 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 26.7 ″  E