Zschock's pen
The Zschocksche Stift was a merchant's house and women's monastery in Königsberg (Prussia) .
history
Kommerzienrat Friedrich Saturgus , a Königsberg merchant, inherited a large garden that reached as far as the Pregel . In 1753 he built the Saturgussche house with seven windows front and created unique gardens with rococo figures, hedges , maze and water features that the Neuroßgärter churches were supplied mountain.
After his death in 1754, his nephews and heirs Friedrich Franz and Adolf Bartholomäus Saturgus continued to beautify the garden and set up a natural history cabinet in the house , which Prof. Bode maintained and whose custodian was Immanuel Kant in 1766 . In 1784 the cabinet was auctioned. One part became the basis of the zoological museum. The Saturgus brothers went bankrupt.
In 1788 the town councilor S. Kuhnke bought the house and garden and rebuilt the Saturgus house in plait style . Now it had eleven windows front and four large granite spheres with two flagpoles in front of the portal. In 1803 it was partly sold. Kuhnke decorated the rest of the garden with more figures and garden sheds. In 1809 Wilhelm von Humboldt lived in the Saturgus house.
After the death of Kuhnke's son, the merchant Georg Zschock bought the Saturgus property and renewed the dilapidated water pipe. After his death, his three unmarried sisters lived in the beautiful house. According to their wills, in 1872 a long, narrow tract was added to the Neuer Graben (no. 8) immediately south as a pen for impoverished unmarried merchant's daughters, which bore the inscription "Zschocksches Fräuleinstift" in gold letters below the central gable. The name "Zschocksche Stift" usually referred to the entire complex, as contemporary publications show, although the name "Zschocksches Stift" would only be correct, strictly speaking, for the extension from 1872, as Mühlpfordt points out. As stipulated in the will, the Königsberg merchants looked after the house and garden. The administrators of the foundation (Carl Neumann, Walter Pirsch and Kurt Laubmeyer) had the water pipe renewed and the partially rotted sandstone figures replaced. The painter Karl Bublitz painted a new face for the hermit .
The last private evening music for the nuns took place in the garden on June 21, 1944. On 29./30. August 1944 burned the "southern German-looking glory" in the bombing of the Royal Air Force .
literature
- Ludwig Goldstein : The Zschocksche Stift in Königsberg. In: New Art in Old Prussia. 1, 1911, ZDB -ID 531919-5 .
- William Meyer: Regesta and family tables on the history of the Zschock pen. In: Old Prussian gender studies. 4, 1930.
- Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z. A city dictionary. Aufstieg-Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7612-0092-7 .
- Günter Boretius: The Zschock pen. Königsberger Bürgerbrief, 1978, p. 11 f.
Web links
The Saturgus property in Königsberg (PDF; 71 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt. The Zschock pen. In Memoriam Walter Pirsch, Ostpreußen-Warte, part 05 of May 1958, p. 7, http://archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de/ow1958/1958_05_01_05.pdf
- ^ Adolf Boetticher (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. On behalf of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament. Booklet VII. The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. Bernhardt Teichert, Königsberg 1897, OCLC 312871065, digitized, p. 247 and Fig. 174 https://archive.org/stream/diebauundkunstd00boetgoog#page/n266/mode/2up
- ↑ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt. The Zschock pen. In Memoriam Walter Pirsch, Ostpreußen-Warte, volume 05 from May 1958, p. 7, http://archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de/ow1958/1958_05_01_05.pdf ; in the revised form in the yearbook of the Albertus University in Königsberg / Pr., Volume 26/27, 1986, p. 113 ff. with further references