Roofs of the poor houses in Lazarettstrasse are being renovated –
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With the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, the city research center of the Heimat- und Historisches Verein in Lazarettstrasse is also being renovated.
04.02.2021
© Harald Sippel
With the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, the city research center of the Heimat- und Historisches Verein in Lazarettstrasse is also being renovated.
04.02.2021
Photo: Harald Sippel
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“Monuments”, the magazine for monument culture in Germany that is being published again these days and published six times a year by the German Foundation for Monument Protection, this time dedicates itself to an Erlangen project in its “Monument in Need” section: the so-called poor houses on Lazarettstrasse.
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After the foundation (DSD) had already supported the static securing of the outer walls and foundations of the residential buildings in Lazarettstrasse 3 and 5 in Erlangen with 25,000 euros in 2019, it is now helping the roof repair with a further 25,000 euros thanks to numerous donations and the GlücksSpirale lottery. The houses, which are among the oldest buildings in Erlangen’s old town, are among the 500 objects that the DSD has been able to support in Bavaria alone thanks to private donations, the income from its trust foundations and the funds from the GlücksSpirale lottery.
From the 15th century
The houses at Lazarettstraße 3 and 5 are right next to the northern city wall, which dates from the 15th century and is therefore one of the oldest sections of the wall in Erlangen. The two half houses were some of the few to survive the great city fire of 1706. The buildings were erected with a half-timbered construction, with the northern part – with the outer wall formed in the lower part of the medieval city wall – standing on wooden stamps that support the roof structure.
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Several facing shells have been installed inside since 1850, and beam and plank ceilings were found during the exploration and protection organized on site. The so-called poor people’s houses are each a single-storey saddle roof structure. Dendrochronologically, as determined by the age of the wood, the felling of the timber can be dated to 1669/70. The houses in 1718/1719 and 1753/1754 were expanded.
City research house planned
Both houses together extend over a length of 20 meters and a width of five meters. The small residential and craft houses were acquired by the Erlangen Local History Association in 2012, which has been committed to preserving them under its chairman Pia Tempel-Meinetsberger. The currently vacant buildings are to be used as a city researcher house in the future, whereby the (respective) city researcher will have his office in house no. The late medieval Erlangen city wall overcomes a terrain jump of around three meters in Lazarettstrasse. The city of Erlangen rehabilitated the wall and built additional buttresses for sustainable structural security.
