To the White Horse (Bad Liebenwerda)

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The Gasthof Zum Weißen Roß is a historic restaurant in the spa town of Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Here it is located near the parish church of St. Nikolai and the town hall directly on the market. The building ensemble is now partly under monument protection .

Building description and history

Mayor Friedrich Bormann

The inn was first mentioned in a document in 1707. At that time, Johann Andreas was the owner of the property. However, the property was already in the hands of various other owners. A house owner directory published in 1935 by Bad Liebenwerda historian and founder of today's district museum of the city of M. Karl Fitzkow in the local history series Die Schwarze Elster names Gregor Frenzel as the owner of the house with the number 84 for the year 1551. The house is found in 1755 again mentioned as an inn. It was authorized to brew and possessed hospitality. At that time, a Michael Schneider owned the building. At the end of the 18th century , in 1798, the house suffered severe damage from a devastating city fire, which was triggered by a lightning strike and which killed 43 town houses and the town hall. As a result, there was no longer any catering business on the property and was only used as a residential and warehouse.

During the wars of liberation at the end of September 1813 the corps of the Prussian generals Dobschütz and Tauentzien with 30,000 men took quarters in Liebenwerda for ten days. Dobschütz and many high officers of the corps took up their quarters in the inn Zum Weißen Roß .

Two years later, Friedrich Bormann took over the house and resumed the restaurant business after renovation and expansion work. A few years later the inn is mentioned in the travel guide A Handbook for Travelers on the Continent by the English publisher John Murray (1808-1892), published in 1836, and is referred to as very good and excellent sleeping quarters on the Berlin - Dresden postal route . The house was one of the best addresses in town and over the years it has hosted many prominent guests. On the guest list, among other things, members of the royal family of Friedrich Wilhelm III. and President Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934). The mayor of Liebenwerda, Friedrich Bormann, who took over the office in 1860, also lived and lived in the White Horse . He held this office until 1871.

The historical buildings serve the catering and hotel industry up to the present day. The Restaurant & Café Exil has been located here since 2009 . The large hall of the inn is now on the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg. This massive half-timbered building was built around 1900 and has a gable roof. Its base is made of sandstone.

  • Gasthof zum Weissen Roß.

  • Liebenwerdaer Markt around 1903 on a contemporary postcard. The hotel "Zum Weißen Roß" can be seen on the right in the picture.

  • The listed hall of the inn

Web links

Commons : Zum Weißen Roß (Bad Liebenwerda)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 13, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ M. Karl Fitzkow : The homeowner registers of the old town of Liebenwerda from 1551 to 1754 . In: The Black Magpie . No. 489 , 1935 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: Chronicle of the City of Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 66 .
  4. ↑ Voegler: The big fire in Liebenwerda 1798 . In: The Black Magpie . No. 553 , 1935 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  5. ↑ Matthäus Karl Fitzkow : On the older history of the city of Liebenwerda and its district area . Ed .: District Museum Bad Liebenwerda. Bad Liebenwerda 1961, p. 56 to 58 .
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: chronicle of the city Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 76 .
  7. ^ John Murray: A Handbook for Travelers on the Continent: being a guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Northern Germany, and Along the Rhine, from Holland to Switzerland. London 1836, p. 324 . ( 2nd edition 1838 )
  8. ↑ a b "Honor roll for the White Horse" in Lausitzer Rundschau , May 19, 2010
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: chronicle of the city Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 276 .
  10. ↑ Where you can switch off from everyday life in Lausitzer Rundschau, July 8th, 2009. Accessed on June 18th, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 57.4 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 34"  E