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City tour through Friedrichstadt
Small and clear but not to be overlooked - that is Friedrichstadt. The town was founded in 1621 under duke Friedrich III. of Schleswig-Gottorf by displaced Remonstrants. The town's name keeps the reminder of their ducal founder.
The town shows it can conserve old buildings so that fit harmoniously into the old grown townscape. A tour through Friedrichstadt will affirm this:
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The city tour through Friedrichstadt should start at the market
The market place form the centre of the small
»Holländerstädtchens« (Dutch town).
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Here you will find the town hall, the steps-gabled houses, the stone bridge and in front of the limes of the »Green Market« the market pump with the gothic like well house. It was build by the architect Heinrich Rohardt in 1879 and given to the town as a gift. At the well house's front wall are 4 verse inscriptions, which were written especially about the water by Klaus Groth in Low German. At two sides of the Green Market, where during spring crocuses and spring snowflakes are in full bloom, one can still see
the thick railing like iron posts where once the animals were tied during the livestock market.
image author: Touristinformation Friedrichstadt Gabled houses at the market
The west side of the market forms with it 9 steps-gabled houses
(numbers 16-24) a single mostly closed front of
Dutch merchant houses from the Wilhelminian style. This row of houses is a character example of townscape forming art of building. Outstanding are the house marks, which are attached to the gable: water lily, hawk, starry sky, mill and so forth. The house marks can be found at different houses in the whole old town centre.
Over the stone bridge of the middle moat one reaches the Neberhaus (Am Mittelburgwall Nr. 24). The building with the probably most valuable interior design was once the exemplar of Dutch living culture (build between 1621 and 1630). Special distinguishing mark is the forward bend façade. Dutch Moppen, small red bricks, was used as building material. The grandest room is the regent chamber or the Friedrichstädter room. Over half of the old panelling was brought to the Flensburger Museum and there reconstructed. Today 2/5 of the panelling in the regent chamber at the Neberhauses is still conserved. The Bovenzaal, that means upper hall is at the first floor and has an alcove. For a few months the duke of Orleans lived here during the French Revolution in 1789. He lived as a emigrant under the pseudonym De Vries and acceded in 1830 as king of the people Louis Philippe the French throne. He worked here as a tutor.
image author: Touristinformation Friedrichstadt 'Lüttche Brüch'
One reaches from the middle moat over the 'Lütje Brüch' (small bridge) the in 1622 build earl house. The house suffered in April 1945 bomb damage. The north gable was restored in 1961. It is a long stretched eaves house with high under and low upper floor of nine axes. It contributes to the considerably to the original townscape because of its corner position and building shape.
The Lohgerberstraße connects straight on. The street was newly created in 1985 after the old exemplar of the Alte Friedrichstadt. Clean laid cobblestone, the old Friedrichstädter lanterns and the lovely red clinked pavements remind one of the past.
image author: Touristinformation Friedrichstadt Remonstranten-Church (1854)
The Remonstranten church, the only church of this
faith outside the Netherlands. Today church is a succession building of the in 1850 destroyed, nearly square hall-church; to which in 1624 Catharina van Moersbergen, the daughter of the town mayor laid the foundation stone. The new building was erected in the years 1852 to 1854 after drafts by the pastor Mensinga and F. Holm (long rectangular clay-brick building with flat ceiling, classical imprints).
By remonstrantical rite there is no altar, so that the main view direction goes towards the lectern, which stands in the middle of the front wall. The simplicity doesn't attract attention because of the light shining through the church. The tower can be seen from far away. About the Remonstrants: The brotherhood of the Remonstranten was founded in 1619 in Antwerpen, after the remonstrantical preachers lost the right of attending the land-synod at Dordrecht. The name Remonstranten goes back to a polemic and avowal pamphlet from the year 1610. It was the theologian Jakob Arminius (1560-1609), who plead for the Remonstranten. That's why until today, the name »Arminianer« is better known abroad then »Remonstranten«.
Opposite the Remonstranten church is the delicate 'Kettererhaus' situated (Prinzeßstraße Nr. 26). The house with the really red façade was build ca. 1626 to 1629 after the founding of Friedrichstadt. The name Ketterer stems from the same-name watchmaker family from the Black Forest, which lived in the house from 1824 to 1924. Today the remostrantical pastor couple Laman-Trip, which travels from the Netherlands for church services, owns it. Notable is the room with the historical dolls arranged in the alcove that can be seen from the street. The house was restored from 1978 to 1981.
image author: Touristinformation Friedrichstadt Paludanus house
From here one reaches through the Kirchenstraße the Prinzenstraße and goes directly to the Paludanushaus, a snow-white majestic corner house (Prinzenstraße Nr. 28). The so-called Paludanus house was build for the wine trader Godefridus Paludanus in 1637. The houses mark a wine barrel and cluster of grapes indicates Paludanus' job as wine trader. A gorgeous carved front door of old handicraft of the rococo time graces the entrance. Inside, a hallway, a middle hall, three old stairs as well as two baroque and two rococo doors are still conserved. The house belongs since 1962 to the Danish community.
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Opposite the Paludanus house is the 1624 build double-gable house situated. Through its corner position, the historical building has an urbanite meaning as completion of the chessboard field. The building is in its location to the Kirchenstraße as notable witness of original town planning to mention. Its two double floor Dutch formed stair gable show towards the Prinzenstraße. The eaves side and the later errected bordering side wing define the confluence area of the Kirchenstraße. The year of building is documented in the gable area through a masonry number tie. The house won the second place at an urbanite competition and was allocated in 1986 with the Europe-Nostra-Medal in silver.
The isolation of the outer walls with plasterboard shells in the eighties induced dampness problems. During renovation work at the end of the nineties
the building damage was discovered and could be saved through substantial interferences at the building substance.
The family Kleta owns the house today.
Catholic Church St.Knuth
The Prinzenstraße leads in the south towards the Fürstenburgwall. Next to the house Nr. 17 stands the catholic church St.Knuth. The yellow bricks leave no doubt about the founding year. This tower-less church was inaugurated in June 1854, because the old chapel was destroyed in 1850 at the shelling of the town through troops of the Schleswig-Holstein army. The church room is decorated with carved figures from baroque times that depict Christ, king Knuth IV. and six apostles. The church has been named after the Danish king Knuth IV. and his patron saint. The apostle figures apparently stem from the Husumer Marien-church that was dismantled in the beginning of the 19.century.
At the Fürstenburgwall, where today the house Nr. 27 stands, Herr Willem van den Hove erected the first house; corner house 'Am Binnenhafen / Am Fürstenburgwall'. A memorial tablet there reminds of the 24. September 1621 the foundation of Friedrichstadt with a saying 'Bear up in freedom'.
Around the corner along Am Binnenhafen one reaches Westerhafenstraße. At the turn into the street one notices house Nr. 4. A former after 1700 build storehouse with outstanding hoist beam, called the black Horse. A meetinghouse of the Quaker was at the Westerhaftenstraße Nr. 14.
At the corner Binnenhafenstraße / Westermarktstraße stands a yellow bricked brick-house with a few half arched windows at the western and northern façade, a former Jewish synagogue. A memorial stone positioned opposite in the year 1985 acts as a reminder.
image author: Touristinformation Friedrichstadt Alte Münze (Old Coin)
Further north one reaches Mittelburgwall. On the right side one sees a building with a notable forward bend high gable wall, the Old Coin. This, North Germany's most valuable building of Dutch renaissance is conserved in its original state; it was build in 1626. The front façade is especially notable because of its leaded windows and the big loading door. This distinguished building that carries the crest of the first town mayor Adolph van Wael van Moersbergen, has never been used as a coin minting workshop but was used as the office for the town mayor.
Inside there are no dividing walls and no traces of fireplaces to be found. Angel and faun heads (faun = covetous forest spirit) decorate the
richly structured gable front. Above the crest one can read a saying: Omne solum forti viro patria. The saying was important for the first Dutch colonists.
But if you enter the small courtyard through a humble gate, you will stand in front of the praying hall of the Mennonites with the Mennonite's yard behind it.
Mennonites are an evangelical denomination, founded by the Friesian
Menno Siroons (1492-1559). Different to other faiths only adults are being baptised. They are against the oath and decline any violence (for instance army duty) but emphasise practical charity. Inside the church is a humble nearly bare room with a wooden beam ceiling that seems very compact. The church is being used together with the Danish community.
image author: Touristinformation Friedrichstadt Ev.-Luth.Church
Directly opposite the Mittelburgwall one catches a glimpse of the
Ev.-Luth. Church with the name St. Christophorus. The building was finished in 1649, the walls of the hall are made from Dutch bricks like many houses in the town, the window surroundings made from sandstone as well as the portal and the corner
walls. The tower in its present form exists since 1762 and was made out of granite stone from a demolished sluice. The oldest of the three bells (tone e), cast 1624, stems from a church in Alt-Nordstrand, that perished in a storm flood in 1634. The most important artwork is the altar picture The weeping Christi, which was given to the church in 1675 by the famous painter Jürgen Ovens.
The baroque frame is also a donation of Ovens. The painting shows the impact of Rembrandt and van Dyck of the artist's work. It depicts the corpse Christi after taking down from the cross, laying resting on a cloth covered stone bench. In the painting in the left upper corner, humble in the dark, one can see the artist itself with folded hands. Jürgen Ovens was born in 1623 in Tönning, lived from 1632 to 1657 and since 1663 in Friedrichstadt. He lived in a mansion at the Fürstenburgwall. Jürgen Ovens died 1678 in Friedrichstadt and was buried under the altar of the ev.-luth. church. The lectern is a carved work from workshop of the Flensburger master Ringerinck (originated around 1600) and stems like the baptism stone from the in 1634 perished church Lith on Nordstrand. In the southwest corner of the churchyard at the path towards the church lies the memorial stone for the soldiers who died in October 1850 during the shelling of Friedrichstadt and the Schleswig -Holstein soldier who died in 1864. Behind the church is a memorial stone for the dead Danish soldiers who defended the town in 1850.
At the memorial stone left over the Westerlilienstraße / Am Binnenhafen along, direction Treene, one reaches the old Jewish graveyard, which was bought in 1677 by the
Jewish community. Some relicts of the old gravestones grouped arounda memorial tablet can still be seen. The graveyard is not open to the public. At the western side, the town Friedrichstadt erected a tablet as a reminder of the in Friedrichstadt living Jews. The new Jewish graveyard is situated at the Schleswiger Straße next to the protestant graveyard.
Further along the Treene bank and over the bridge at the Ostersielzug, one comes to the south towards the Remonstranten house, the last station of the round trip. From here the starting point is only a few steps away. The Remonstranten house was build in 1909 and was original used as a community centre by the remonstrantical pastors; at the same time it was also living and working place. The building is as a facility a detached mansion with decorated step gables. Today the house is privately owned and used as a clinic. .
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