Customs house (castle gate)
The Zoellnerhaus is a brick building of the Renaissance from 1571 in Luebeck , that the ensemble of the Burgtor belongs.
building
The building with the location name Große Burgstraße 5 adjoins the tower of the castle gate immediately to the east and is connected to it inside. It is integrated into the Lübeck city fortifications , which adjoin further to the east, with the remains of the city wall preserved here . The garden belonging to the property is hidden between an open semicircular tower of the city wall and a brick wall on the street side on Kaiserstraße . The eaves-standing house shows a three-tiered gable on the eaves facing Große Burgstrasse, and a stepped gable is also formed on the eastern side of the gable. On the eaves side there is also the renaissance portal of the house with its round arch made of brick. The facade is decorated with a terracotta frieze from the workshop of Statius von Düren , which alternates between the Lübeck double-headed eagle and the Mecklenburg griffin. In the course of the lifting of the gate lock , it became obsolete as a customs office. The increasing traffic through the castle gate in the 19th century required the construction of further through gates for the castle gate, one of which was led through the ground floor of the customs office in 1875. On the fortified north side of the house there is a wooden bay window, the neo- renaissance forms and carvings of which take up the motifs of the Marstall bay window west of the gate in Grosse Burgstrasse. The exterior of the building and its 18th century hall are a listed building.
garden
The garden, enclosed behind the surrounding high walls, was probably redesigned in 1935 by the garden architect Harry Maasz and has been preserved. The focal point is an elevated round terrace, which is placed in the open semicircular tower of the old city wall. It is paved from polygonal natural stone and can be reached via a slightly curved staircase.
Residents
Beginning in the 20th century, the customs office was given a new use. The Senate of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck awarded the writer Ida Boy-Ed on her 60th birthday, April 17, 1912, as thanks for her services to the city, a permanent right of residence in the customs office, where she lived until her death in 1928. When Thomas Mann visited his hometown Lübeck, he resided in the apartment of his early patron Ida Boy-Ed. Thereafter, the Lübeck museum director and founder of the Behnhaus Carl Georg Heise took over the customs office for use as a residential building. After his dismissal in 1933, the weaver Alen Müller-Hellwig set up her workshop here in 1934 and ran it until 1992; her husband kept his violin-making workshop in the tower of the castle gate. Alen Müller-Hellwig's nose tag is still hanging on the building today. The workshop is continued by one of her students. Drummer Sören "Max" Zeidler has lived with his family in the Zöllnerhaus since 2016 and runs the "Max Zeidler's Drumburg" drum school in the tower of the castle gate. There are also regular events in the "tower room", the lowest floor of the tower.
Customs house on a photo by Pero (before 1847), still without the breakthrough on the ground floor
Neo-Renaissance oriel of the customs office on the field side of the castle gate fortifications
Nose shield of the weaver Alen Müller, behind it the round arch of the Renaissance portal
Garden wall of the customs office on Kaiserstrasse
literature
- Klaus J. Groth: Lübeck World Heritage Site: listed houses. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1999, ISBN 3-7950-1231-7 , p. 193
- Renate Kastorff-Viehmann: Harry Maasz. Garden architect, garden writer and garden poet. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-884-74676-6 , p. 88, no. 70
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Burgtor becomes the Drumburg in Lübecker Nachrichten on January 7, 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 25.9 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 28.5 ″ E