To the golden cross
The house Zum Güldenen Kreuz was a residential and commercial building in Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt . It was destroyed during the Second World War and is considered a lost architectural monument.
location
It was located in Magdeburg's old town at the address Breiter Weg 30 on the east side of the Breite Weg in a corner of Judengasse, which was later renamed to Zur Tischlerbrücke . Today, the southwest corner of the Allee-Center is located here .
Architecture and history
Before the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631 , the property belonged to the district gentleman brewer Hans Zietz, or Zeitz. In 1642 he sold the property, which also included the areas of Tischlerbrücke 30 a and b, to the merchant Stephan Lüdecke for 611 thalers. Lüdecke built the property in 1646 and is last mentioned in 1674. The property then belonged to his widow and later until 1711 Melchior Lüddicke, probably his son. His heirs sold the house to Ernst Lüddicke for 3,650 thalers in 1732.
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The three-storey, plastered Zum Güldenen Kreuz building , also known as the Zum golden Kreuz brewery , was built in 1745 by master mason P. Chr. Böse for the merchant Johann Christoph Bruder. The building had a balustrade with four figures . On the far right, the client was shown as a figure with a telescope . The building was covered with a mansard roof placed on an extra attic . On the roof there were two round skylights flanked by volutes . The five-axis facade was structured with four colossal pilasters , which combined the two upper floors. They were continued downwards by pilaster strips . Two of the pilasters flanked the central axis, two more the outer edges. The central entrance portal was framed on the left and right by atlases and free-standing Ionic columns with figural decorations. The design of the portal and facade was based on the building at Domplatz 4 .
In 1803 and 1845 the building was owned by Widekind and Wiedekind, respectively. In the course of the 19th century, the ground floor and first floor were renovated several times, for example in 1855, 1871, 1886, 1892 and 1901. In 1870 the building belonged to a Levy, born Wiesenthal and from 1882 to Bruno Levy. In 1909 the facade design was brought back to its original shape. In 1913 Albert and Max Loburg had the building converted into a castle café . The upper floors were occupied by a high, elongated hall that ran towards the rear. A large arched window was added to the left and right of the central entrance portal on the ground floor. At the same time, the balcony above the portal received a balcony grille. From 1914 the owner was the merchant S. Sternberg, who first lived in Magdeburg and later in Berlin-Charlottenburg . From 1940 the building belonged to his heirs. The castle cafe belonged at this time R. Schmidt.
Elaborate stucco decorations existed inside the house .
During the Second World War, the building, like large parts of Magdeburg's old town, was destroyed. The ruin was demolished on June 9, 1950 until the rubble match . The demolition costs amounted to DM 888.51. However, the portal of the house at the Golden Cross was preserved . It was salvaged and rebuilt in another location, in front of the Breiter Weg 193 building.
legend
There is a legend about the property . After the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631, two merchants who had been friends from their youth began to rebuild their properties. As a token of their friendship, their new houses, the house at Zum Güldenen Kreuz and probably the house at Breiter Weg 198, should have the same appearance. After the work had started, however, the owner of what would later become the house at Zum Güldenen Kreuz came to the conclusion that his house should be the more splendid one, since he was the richer merchant and the building was the more beautiful before it was destroyed. So he secretly had his own plans drawn up. In the course of the construction progress, both friends quarreled about it and examined the respective construction of the other. The owner of the house Zum Güldenen Kreuz even bought a telescope so that he could better follow the building of his former friend. He turned his back on him in contempt. In fact, the house at the golden cross became the more magnificent. The merchant had a figure with a telescope set up in the place where he had always stood to watch. His former friend then had a portrait made of his back to the other.
The legend explains the existence of the figure on the balustrade with the telescope. Both buildings were destroyed in World War II.
literature
- Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Monuments in World War II , Volume 1, Henschel Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , page 264.
- Guido Skirlo, The Broad Way - in a lost cityscape . Ed .: State Capital Magdeburg, 2005, page 119 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Architectural Monuments in World War II , Volume 1, Henschel Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , page 264
- ^ Magdeburg address book 1939 , Part II, page 24
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 47.9 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 9.5 ″ E