Herrnburg Customs House
The old customs house in Herrnburg is the oldest residential building still standing today in the Mecklenburg border town to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .
It was built as a chapel on the road to Schwerin. The current building was erected in 1783 on the foundations of the previous chapel as a two-story half-timbered building next to the Herrnburg village church, initially again as a chapel. Obviously, not only were the bricks of the previous building reused in the monastery format , a terracotta by the Lübeck sculptor Statius von Düren from around 1550 was also installed on the long side facing the street. The location on the important old pilgrimage route to Wilsnack and the location of the property in an inner curve of the road highlight the customs house in the townscape. Herrnburg is only separated from Lübeck by the moat of the Lübeck Landwehr as a geographical border. On the Lübeck side, the Brandenbaum was used as a barrier .
The roof structure protruding over the building has been emphasized in the area of the gable in a particularly extravagant way since the 1930s by attached trophies of big game from Africa.
After the building was renovated in the mid-1990s, it was used as a gallery until 2012.
From 2013 to 2019 the old customs house was inhabited by a violin maker and used as a workshop. Until the move to the new workshop (in the pastorate Herrnburg), historical string instruments and bows were built there.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 3.9 " N , 10 ° 45 ′ 54.4" E