To the Golden Deer (Düsseldorf)

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The house "Zum Goldenen Hirsch" is said to have belonged to Konrad Heresbach , whose insignium was a deer drinking by the brook (illustration by the engraver Franz Hogenberg on a publication by Dietrich Graminäus).

The house "Zum Goldenen Hirsch" in Düsseldorf on the market square was first shown in an illustration by the copper engraver Franz Hogenberg from 1585. The court lawyer and Bergische Landschreiber Dietrich Graminäus published the work of the engraver in Cologne in 1587 in his description of the marriage of the duke's son Johann Wilhelm with the margravine Jakobe von Baden . The house, built in the Renaissance style , was described in a dissertation by Paul Sültenfuß in 1922. As a result, it is considered an example of the influence of the Old Town Hall on Düsseldorf's residential building art. The house no longer exists.

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At the beginning of the Düsseldorf renaissance there was still the "conservative direction" with its "curly pinnacle gables". One example of this was the “Zum Goldenen Hirsch” house on the market square. Paul Sültenfuß sees stylistic similarities between the gable of the house "Zum Goldenen Hirsch" and that of the old town hall:

“The drawing of the gable [...] is very close to that of the town hall. I would also like to draw your attention to the house "Zum golden Hirsch" on Gramminaeus' market place. "

Paul Sültenfuß describes the house "Zum Goldenen Hirsch", which was designed particularly richly, with pinnacles or pyramids on the former stepped heels of the gable, on the top step a seated stag that is said to have been gilded:

“Gramminaeus' view of the Düsseldorf market square brings, in addition to half-timbered buildings, a whole sample card of various brick buildings: simple stepped gables, gables with pinnacles on the steps, the house with the volute gable and pinnacles or pyramids on the former steps, as a crowning on the top step, is particularly rich a sitting deer. The "House of the Golden Stag", and the stag was once gold-plated, according to other logos of Rhenish houses. "

Paul Wietzorek mentions the history of the house in his description of the copper engraving by Franz Hogenberg:

“[...] Between the stately, gable-end houses on Marktstrasse in the background, it goes into Bolkerstrasse. On the fourth house from the right a lying deer can be seen. One can assume that this house belongs to the humanist and ducal advisor Konrad Heresbach, who led a deer as heraldic animal and house symbol "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vogts: Das Bürgerhaus in der Rheinprovinz , Düsseldorf 1929 (from the series: Association of German Architects and Engineering Associations (ed.): The Bürgerhaus in the German Reich and in its border areas, printing and publishing house L. Schwann in Düsseldorf), p 213
  2. ^ Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . In addition table work in large folio with 75 sheets, Aachen 1922, p. 27f. [The oldest brick buildings and the development of the gable forms] or [The town hall and its influence on the Wonhaus architecture]
  3. ↑
    • Paul Sültenfuß (1872-1937), The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century, (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, p. 27.jpg
    • Paul Sültenfuß (1872-1937), The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century, (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, p. 28.jpg
    • Paul Sültenfuß (1872-1937), The Düsseldorf house up to the middle of the 19th century, (Diss. TH Aachen), 1922, p. 32.jpg
  4. ^ Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . In addition table work in large folio with 75 sheets, Aachen 1922, p. 32
  5. ^ Paul Sültenfuß: The Düsseldorf house until the middle of the 19th century . In addition table work in large folio with 75 sheets, Aachen 1922, pp. 27–28
  6. ^ Paul Wietzorek: The historical Düsseldorf. Pictures told. , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2010, p. 17

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 32.4 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 21.2"  E