Eicke's House

The ash Eick house in the pedestrian zone of Einbeck is a richly decorated with figurative carving, Grade II listed half-timbered house of the late Renaissance. Today it houses the municipal tourism information and the culture ring.

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The facades of the house are decorated Eick ash with rich carvings that make up the cultural significance of the building. The motifs are from the education world of humanism, the Reformation and the Renaissance and antiquity. Equipped with ornamental carvings are the thresholds of the cantilevered upper floors, the 51 consoles and the Füllhölzer. The numerous figurative representations on the 42 existing balustrade panels show Christ, the four Evangelists, the five senses, the planetary deities, the seven liberal arts and the virtues ( eg, faith, love, patience and wisdom ) and the Muses ( as Erato, Euterpe, Kalliope or Polyhymnia ). In the stands of the window zones above the parapets, the eleven apostles, seven warriors and 25 Hermenpilaster are shown. Furthermore, there are 110 carved heads and masks. At the front corner posts three warrior figures are shown as atlases one above the other, each seemingly carry the floors lying above them.

The Middle Low German inscriptions in the corner between the brackets to the first floor are from the Proverbs of Solomon, and from the 37th Psalm.

History and Architecture

17th and 18th centuries

The Eick Ash House was built around 1612 approximately 50m east of the then Clarissenklosters from a merchant. Client and builder are not known. It is five compartments with wide eaves to Market Street and is eight compartments deep. On the ground floor of a basement, the house was the spacious hallway and partly a mezzanine. The first floor served as living area, the second as a warehouse, as well as the attic. The house was built without its own south wall of the neighboring house market street 15. It was originally an entrance in Knochenhauerstraße. Unique was originally two compartments wide necked corner on the ground floor with cantilevered pillar with a fully three-dimensional carved warrior statues.

In the 18th century the side entrance was sealed in the Knochenhauerstraße 1722 and supplemented with a carved panel of the Muse Jubal. On the ground floor partitions were recovered. Multiple new windows were installed. Around 1780 there was a further modification to the facades. The open area was closed and the side to market road was plastered. Prior to the virtues Pax and Temperance must have been displaced out of the sill zone in the head zone of the same compartments. Through a store installation around 1835 large display windows were installed on the ground floor. By installing a new window in 1875, the original plate has been lost with the theological virtue Spes. The still visible remnants of the earlier added entrance portal in the Knochenhauerstraße were eliminated.

Restoration end of the 19th century

End of the 19th century, the monuments with the excavation of the plastered facade for 62 years to a market street in August 1888 and the restoration until 1894 began., The businessman Hermann Eicke, after which it has since been named, this resulted from using the city. For the application of the plaster and in removing the heads were destroyed especially at the beam ends and had to be re- added. On the facade of Knochenhauerstraße carvings were added to the former portal. On the ground floor in 1890, the plates of the Muses Terpsichore and Thalia, however, supplemented without Musical instruments; on the mezzanine the virtues Spes and Justitia. For use as a retail shop new, large display windows were installed in the market street. The framework and the carvings were painted relatively dark with linseed oil with the addition of ocher and black.

In 1902 the façade was designed by the Hanoverian polychrome decoration and painter Reinhold Ebeling performed. Of the cost of the paint on 1316 Mark the owner Eicke paid 50 marks, the Association for the History and Antiquities of the circle Einbeck 100 marks. 1938, the last original Renaissance window was removed in the Knochenhauer facade. It had six fields of equal size with hexagonal glazing. 1968 all windows were then added to the Knochenhauerstraße and removed the walls to grow in 1938 and the annex building market street, 15 on the ground floor of a store remodeling. In addition, the facade was re- taken colorful.

Rehabilitation in the 21st century

1999 was found, which was endangering the stability of the ash Eick house. It was then supported makeshift. Founded by Einbeck citizens Foundation Eick Esches house took it in 2001. By 2006, the Foundation collected 1.5 million euros, which were made up of 30 major gifts and individual donations in 1800 from an average of 150 euros. 0.5 million euros in funding came from the public sector. Construction began in 2002, initially mainly to restore stability. In early September 2006, the restored building was inaugurated with a ceremony, worship and street festival. 2007/ 08 was made after discussions between citizens and preservationists a historical holzsichtige version with linseed oil on the model of 1888, as the carvings had been until 1902 and 1968 respectively designed multi-colored. Only the inscriptions were sold gold in color. The restored Eick Ash House was awarded the 2009 German Half-Timbered Price for the most exemplary and exemplary rehabilitation of a half-timbered building. At the 14th day of the monuments of Lower Saxony on June 9, 2012 in Einbeck the Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture Johanna Wanka brought the house to the first memorial plaque in Lower Saxony.

Classification and Comparison Buildings

The original corner solution at Eick ash house is unique in this form in northern Germany, so that it is an architectural monument of national importance. The pictorial carvings reminiscent of half-timbered building in Hildesheim, but these were largely destroyed in the Second World War, and in Alfeld, such as the Old Latin School, which was built and decorated in 1610 by the Hildesheim Andreas Steiger. Also the Kassebeersche house in Northeim has no such rich figural decoration. A later comparison monument is the Krummelsche house in Wernigerode from 1679th