UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

If Houses could cry – A call for help

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Imprint

Publisher City of Quedlinburg Markt 1 06484 Quedlinburg

Contacts City of Quedlinburg Markt 1 06484 Quedlinburg www.quedlinburg.de

Building Department Department head: Herr Malnati [email protected] Phone: +49-(0)3946 / 905 700

City development and renovation section, UNESCO-World Heritage Section leader: Frau Rippich [email protected] Phone: +49-(0)3946 / 905 710

BauBeCon Sanierungsträger GmbH Office in Quedlinburg Word 3 06484 Quedlinburg Contact person: Herr Plate www.baubeconstadtsanierung.de [email protected] Phone: +49-(0)3946 / 779 366

Edit Quedlinburg City and BauBeCon Sanierungsträger GmbH

Photos Quedlinburg City

Edition July 2014

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How everything began:

Situation in 1989:

4% of the buildings were decaying 26% heavily damaged 57 % heavily to fairly damaged 13 % new or renovated buildings (taken from a readily available investigation from 1991)

• Favourable conditions for the conservation area and monuments in Quedlinburg until 1989 • No significant destruction by fire or war • Poverty during GDR times prevented improper construction; but also meant catastrophic conditions for the buildings • The 1989 revolution was also a fight against demolition of the conservation area • The cost for renovation was huge: estimated cost more than 250 million Euro • A large part of the population was indifferent to the historical architectural heritage; awareness was growing steadily. • The recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage was the goal; but also an instrument for the protection of the conservation of the area and its monuments.

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Inscribed into the World Heritage List

An abstract from a speech by Doctor Bernd Freiherr Droste zu Hülshoff, (then director of UNESCO Centre for the preservation of heritage of humanity, Paris ) given at the ceremonial handover of the certificate for the inclusion of Quedlinburg into the World Heritage List:

“While we have huge satisfaction for the recognition of Quedlinburg old city in a world wide scale, we should not forget the seventeen world heritage sites that are on the list of world- heritage-in-danger. They warn us that the inclusion of Quedlinburg in the UNESCO List of irreplaceable heritage of humanity contain the obligations that were inscribed in the 1972 World Heritage Convention. The Convention requires the binding member states for full scale and long term protection of world heritages.

In the case of Quedlinburg this is also not an easy task, which entails an enormous request for restoration. 150 old half-timber houses are uninhabited; without immediate help they will be exposed to complete decay......

Now all effort has to be mobilized for the rescue of Quedlinburg old town. I would like to present to you now, honourable mayor Mr. Röhricht , the certificate of world heritage of UNESCO for the outstanding monument of urban development in Quedlinburg with its unique and precious half-timbered constructions, the distinctive castle hill as well as the time-honoured Collegiate Church. From now on, old Quedlinburg should be held not only as an invaluable and irreplaceable jewel of Saxony-Anhalt and Germany but also the heritage of all people and the future generations. To conclude, I therefore would like to remind you once again of the specific duty, that the outstanding heritage of Quedlinburg should be looked after like gold.’’

The world heritage site covers 84.3 ha.

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What we have achieved

Situation in 2011

Buildings documented: 3,562 • Buildings contributed in shaping the cityscape 59 % • Buildings are worth preserving 14 % • Buildings have no conservation value 24 % Achieved: • Level of restoration around 65 % • Population growth in the world heritage area from around 2,700 (1993) to around 5,600 (2010) adults

However: • 14% of the residential buildings and 23% of the commercial buildings are completely empty • 35% of the buildings show significant need for repair, from which: Buildings that lacked maintenance: 9 % Buildings with light damage: 13 % Buildings with considerable damage: 9 % Buildings saved from emergency: < 1 % Partly dismantled buildings/ buildings in danger of collapse: 3 %

(Source: Conservation data base, taken in 2011 and ISEK, taken in 2012)

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Rescued: Reichenstraße 38

Construction cost: 264.000,00 € Subsidy: 86.000,00 € Date of completion: June 2009

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Rescued: Dovestraße 5

Construction cost: 300.000,00 € Subsidy: 147.000,00 € Date of completion: Sept. 2011 7 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

Rescued: Neuendorf 21

Construction cost: 235.000,00 € Subsidy: 93.000,00 € Date of completion: Dec. 2009

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Rescued: Schmale Straße 49/50

Construction cost: 386.000,00 € Subsidy: 124.000,00 € Date of completion: Sept. 2006

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Situation: ‘‘Temperature curve" of available funding

For more than 10 years the financial allowance from the urban development support that Quedlinburg city has received for maintaining her world heritage sites has fallen sharply. Although Quedlinburg receives a large proportion of the funding sum available within the State of Sachsen-Anhalt, this funding is not enough. The very generous allowance from the special Federal programme ‘Investments in national world heritage sites’ provided significant support; but as it ended with the 2014 financial year, the support is unfortunately considerably limited in terms of time. The annual financial requirement of 6 million Euros for maintaining the buildings, which Prof. Kiesow had years ago ascertained, could not be covered anymore by the regular urban development support programme.

It is not only the allowance from the Federal and the State government that has reduced; but also the financial resource available in Quedlinburg for acquiring funding support. In the past years the city has received a lot of support from the German Foundation for Monument Protection, which sometimes covered up the communal portion of the financial resource completely. 2.000.000 Financial resource from the city 1.500.000

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Situation: selected economic figures of the city

Economic tendencies • Low commercial and tax revenue (ca. € 5 million) • Increasing closures of shops in the Neustadt • Low level of readiness for banks to provide funding (Venture capital) • Suffering of companies in the traditional handicraft sector • 59 % of jobs in the service sector (2010) • Unemployment rate of 20.6 % (at the end of 2011)

Purchasing power index 2008 (freely available income)

Sachsen - Anhalt World Heritage Sites in Germany 1 Wernigerode 85.8 100.00% 1 Regensburg 111.8 100.00% 2 Haldensleben 85.7 99.88% 2 Bamberg 103 92.13% 3 Dessau 83.2 96.97% 3 Goslar 98.3 87.92% 4 Halle 83 96.74% 4 Lübeck 91.4 81.75% 5 Magdeburg 82.1 95.69% 5 Eisenach 88.6 79.25% 6 Oschersleben 78.8 91.84% 6 Dessau 83.2 74.42% 7 Blankenburg 78.6 91.61% 7 Weimar 82.2 73.52% 8 Thale 78.3 91.26% 8 Stralsund 80.9 72.36% 9 Wittenberg 78.2 91.14% 9 Wittenberg 78.2 69.95% 10 Burg 78.2 91.14% 10 Wismar 76.6 68.52% 11 Bernburg 77.9 90.79% 11 Quedlinburg 68.8 61.54% 12 Schönebeck 77.3 90.09% 12 Eisleben 66.9 59.84% 13 Halberstadt 77.2 89.98% 14 Stendal 76.1 88.69% 15 Aschersleben 73.8 86.01% 16 Köthen 73.3 85.43% 17 Quedlinburg 68.8 80.19% 18 Eisleben 66.9 77.97% 19 Sangerhausen 66.2 77.16%

Occupations subjected to social security contribution in Quedlinburg

1989 1996 2010 18, 881 12, 048 8, 048

Commuters movement (2010)

Living and working in QLB Communters into QLB Out -bound commuters 2, 964 5, 084 3, 417

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Mid-term demands for public funding for the preservation of the world heritage areas

Average Number of Total Measures minimal cost for objects each object € million 1. Securing significantly damaged buildings that shape 411 61,192 € 25.15 the city-scape From 1.1 Objects with significant damage 319 50,000 € 15.95 which: 1.2 Objects that are partly destroyed 90 100,000 € 9 1.3 Objects saved from emergency in the past 2 100,000 € 0.2 80 2. Modernisation measures (partly and complete prospective 125,000 € 10 Modernisation) builders 3. Defensive structure (City wall, Towers) +Supporting 750 m 5 wall on Münzenberg 4. Most urgent infrastructure measures (Residents parking, streets and walkways) excluding free space 5 and recreational area 5. Stiftsberg complex (super structure + supporting 8 wall) and Wipertii church Total: 53.15

(Source: BauBeCon Sanierungsträger GmbH)

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Situation: Overview of the condition of endangered buildings

Typical extract (Source: Conservation Database, taken in 2011) 13 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

Situation: Demand for urgent action

Under the framework of the monument protection plan, which is a building block of the world heritage management plan, all buildings covering the world heritage district are documented. The following shows clearly something dramatic: Out of 3562 buildings 411 are prospectively in a dangerous condition. If there is a lack of renovation for these buildings, the damage especially infection by dry rot, will spread to the neighbouring buildings that have already been renovated. All effort that had been made will be undone step by step.

Number of buildings with conditions of the Street affected buildings left empty are : values on urban buildings are: buildings: planning : 2x Residential 6x partly damaged / In 9x landscape 1x Residential, commercial Ägidiikirchhof 11 danger of existence shaping 1x Commercial 5x heavily damaged 2x less important 4x Storage 2x Residential 3x partly damaged / In 3x Residential, commercial 7x landscape Altetopfstraße 7 danger of existence shaping 1x Commercial, storage, 4x heavily damaged garage 1x landscape Am Hospital 1 1x commercial 1x heavily damaged shaping 2x landscape An der Kunst 2 2x Residential 2x heavily damaged shaping 2x Residential 12x landscape 3x Residential, commercial 5x partly damaged / In shaping Augustinern 19 1x Commercial danger of existence 2x worth preserving 1x Residential, storage 14x heavily damaged 5x less important 4x Storage 2x Residential 4x landscape 1x Residential, commercial Ballstraße 5 5x heavily damaged shaping 1x Commercial 1x worth preserving 1x Storage 4x landscape 2x Residential Blasiistraße 5x heavily damaged shaping 1x Communal space 1x worth preserving 2x heavily damaged 1x Residential 3x landscape Bockstraße 3 1x saved from 1x Commercial, storage shaping emergency 6x Residential 2x partly damaged / In 10x landscape Breite Straße 12 3x Residential, commercial danger of existence shaping 1x Storage 10x heavily damaged 2x less important 1x partly damaged / In Carl-Ritter- 2 2x Residential, Commercial danger of existence 2x less important Straße 1x heavily damaged 1x Residential 2x landscape Damm 2 2x heavily damaged 1x Storage shaping 14 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

Number of buildings with conditions of the Street affected buildings left empty are : values on urban buildings are: buildings: planning : 2x partly damaged / In 1x landscape 2x Residential Dovestraße 3 danger of existence shaping 1x Storage 1x heavily damaged 2x less important 1x partly damaged / In 7x landscape 3x Residential Finkenherd 8 danger of existence shaping 1x Storage 7x heavily damaged 1x less important 1x landscape Gildschaft 1 2x Residential 1x heavily damaged shaping 2x landscape Goldstraße 2 0 2x heavily damaged shaping 2x partly damaged / In 4x landscape Gröpern 4 1x Residential danger of existence shaping 2x heavily damaged Gutsmuths- 2 0 2x heavily damaged 2x less important straße 3x landscape 3x partly damaged / In 3x Residential shaping Heidfeldstraße 8 danger of existence 3x Storage 3x worth preserving 5x heavily damaged 2x less important 4x Residential 8x landscape Heiligegeiststra 2x Residential, Commercial 11 11x heavily damaged shaping ße 2x Commercial 3x less important 2x Storage, Garage 1x landscape Hinter der 2 1x Residential 2x heavily damaged shaping Mauer 1x less important 2x Residential 13x landscape 2x partly damaged / In 3x Residential, Commercial shaping Hohe Straße 19 danger of existence 3x Residential, Storage 1x worth preserving 17x heavily damaged 5x Storage 5x less important Im 1 0 1x heavily damaged 1x less important Wasserwinkel 1x partly damaged / In 1x landscape Jüdengasse 1 1x Commercial, Storage danger of existence shaping Kaiser-Otto- 3 3x Residential 3x heavily damaged 3x worth preserving Straße 2x Residential 9x landscape 1x Residential, Commercial Kaiserstraße 10 10x heavily damaged shaping 1x Commercial, Storage 1x worth preserving 1x Storage 4x partly damaged / In 3x Residential 5x landscape Klink 5 danger of existence 2x Commercial shaping 1x heavily damaged

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Number of buildings with conditions of the Street affected buildings left empty are : values on urban buildings are: buildings: planning :

6x Residential 8x landscape 2x partly damaged / In 4x Residential, Commercial shaping Konvent 16 danger of existence 1x Commercial 6x worth preserving 14x heavily damaged 2x Storage, Garage 2x less important 1x partly damaged / In 1x landscape Kornmarkt 1 1x Residential, Storage danger of existence shaping 1x landscape Kramerstraße 1 1x Residential 1x heavily damaged shaping 3x Residential 2x partly damaged / In 14x landscape Lange Gasse 15 5x Residential, Commercial danger of existence shaping 3x Commercial 13x heavily damaged 1x less important 3x Commercial 8x heavily damaged 7x landscape Markt 9 1x Residential, Storage 1x saved from shaping 1x Storage emergency 2x worth preserving 1x partly damaged / In 3x landscape Marktkirchhof 3 0 danger of existence shaping 2x heavily damaged 3x landscape 2x Residential Marktstraße 4 4x heavily damaged shaping 1x Storage 1x less important 1x partly damaged / In 2x landscape Marschlinger 1x Residential 3 danger of existence shaping Hof 1x Residential, Commercial 2x heavily damaged 1x less important 2x landscape Mauerstraße 3 3x Residential 3x heavily damaged shaping 1x worth preserving 1x landscape Mühlenstraße 1 1x Residential, Storage 1x heavily damaged shaping 1x landscape 3x partly damaged / In 1x Residential, Commercial shaping Münzenberg 8 danger of existence 1x Residential, Storage 6x worth preserving 5x heavily damaged 1x less important 2x landscape 1x partly damaged / In shaping Neuendorf 6 3x Storage danger of existence 1x worth preserving 5x heavily damaged 3x less important 2x Residential 13x landscape 3x Residential, Commercial 15x heavily damaged shaping Neuer Weg 16 6x Commercial 1x saved from 1x worth preserving 1x Residential, Storage emergency 2x less important 1x Storage

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Number of buildings with conditions of the Street affected buildings left empty are : values on urban buildings are: buildings: planning : 2x landscape Neustädter 1x Residential 3 3x heavily damaged shaping Kirchhof 1x Storage 1x less important 2x Residential 2x Residential, commercial 1x partly damaged / In 16x landscape 2x Commercial Pölkenstraße 18 danger of existence shaping 1x Residential, Storage 17x heavily damaged 2x less important 2x Commercial, Storage 5x Storage 5x Residential 15x landscape 6x Residential, commercial 5x partly damaged / In shaping Pölle 23 1x Commercial danger of existence 5x worth preserving 2x Residential, Storage 18x heavily damaged 3x less important 5x Storage 4x Residential 6x landscape 3x partly damaged / In 1x Residential, commercial shaping Reichenstraße 11 danger of existence 1x Residential, Storage 2x worth preserving 8x heavily damaged 4x Storage 3x less important 2x partly damaged / In 3x landscape 2x Residential Rittergasse 6 danger of existence shaping 2x Residential, storage 4x heavily damaged 3x less important 1x partly damaged / In 1x landscape Schenkgasse 1 1x Storage danger of existence shaping 1x partly damaged / In 2x Residential 5x landscape Schloßberg 5 danger of existence 1x Residential, storage shaping 4x heavily damaged 5x Residential 11x partly damaged / In 13x landscape Schmale Straße 14 6x Residential, storage danger of existence shaping 1x Storage 3x heavily damaged 1x worth preserving 1x partly damaged / In 1x landscape Schuhhof 1 1x Residential danger of existence shaping 1x partly damaged / In 1x landscape Schulstraße 1 1x communal space danger of existence shaping 2x landscape Steinbrücke 2 1x Commercial 2x heavily damaged shaping 2x Residential 23x landscape 11x Residential, commercial 5x partly damaged / In shaping Steinweg 33 7x Commercial danger of existence 2x worth preserving 2x Residential, storage 28x heavily damaged 8x less important 5x Storage

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Number of buildings with conditions of the Street affected buildings left empty are : values on urban buildings are: buildings: planning : 1x landscape 1x partly damaged / In shaping Stieg 3 1x Residential danger of existence 1x worth preserving 2x heavily damaged 1x less important 1x landscape 4x partly damaged / In 2x Residential, commercial shaping Stobenstraße 12 danger of existence 2x Storage 7x worth preserving 8x heavily damaged 4x less important 1x partly damaged / In 1x Residential Wallstraße 2 danger of existence 2x worth preserving 1x Storage 1x heavily damaged 1x partly damaged / In 2x landscape Wassertor- 3 0 danger of existence shaping straße 2x heavily damaged 1x less important 5x Residential 4x partly damaged / In 7x landscape Weberstraße 9 1x Residential, commercial danger of existence shaping 1x Storage, Garage 5x heavily damaged 2x worth preserving 6x landscape 3x Residential 4x partly damaged / In shaping Weingarten 8 2x Residential, Storage danger of existence 1x worth preserving 1x Storage 4x heavily damaged 1x less important 1x partly damaged / In 3x landscape 1x Residential Wipertistraße 4 danger of existence shaping 1x Storage 3x heavily damaged 1x less important 1x partly damaged / In 10x landscape Word 10 1x Residential danger of existence shaping 9x heavily damaged 4x landscape Wordgasse 4 4x Residential, commercial 4x heavily damaged shaping 2x landscape Zwischen den 3 1x Residential 3x heavily damaged shaping Städten 1x less important Total number of buildings involved in the world heritage area: 411 288 landscape from which: 319 heavily damaged shaping 90 partly destoyed / 54 worth In danger of preserving collapse 2 saved from 69 less emergency important

(Source: Conservation Database, taken in 2010)

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In danger: the city gets eaten up

A simulation of the result of the loss of historical building fabric in the essential urban districts. On the left the current situation; on the right an artificial suggestion.

If the ca. 400 buildings in the above table are exposed to decay, those buildings indicated in red will gradually disappear and the world heritage site will be drilled hollow like Swiss cheese.

A showcase of buildings in danger (in red) in the historical city plan (Map: IB Deuter)

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In danger: Schmale Straße 22

Basic information: Construction period until 1830 Single building yes Original use residential and commercial building Size of land 478 m² Number of building on this land 7

Short description (extracted from the monument registry): A closed, preserved building complex with a dominant main building and six other adjoining buildings

Main building was of residential use. Two-storey half timbered construction dated from around 1740. There is brick infilling, strongly profiled horizontal mouldings on the threshold of the first upper floor. Around 1820 came the addition of another storey, redesigned in early classical style with carved entrance door and drive-through passage on the side of the building.

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In danger: Neuer Weg 7

Basic information: Construction period until 1830 Single building yes Original use Commercial and residential building Size of land 2,099 m² Number of building on this land 7

Short description (extracted from the monument registry): Since the middle ages this brickyard belonged to the Collegiate Church, endowed with special rights and entrusted to handle building materials for the Collegiate Church. The spacious area was extensively used. The side-wings at the back were built with ashlar masonry, with small architectural relief, which dated to 1660. The centre of the building could be even older. The front house that resembles a palace, dated 1770, has a meticulously decorated brick-facade, Rococo window posts, artistically carved gate as well as a unique portal with bracket volute, and artistically carved wings of the side-gate installation. The remains of a gallery facing the courtyard shows carved pillars and balustrade relief. The wing at the courtyard is partly reshaped. 21 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

In danger: Steinweg 19

Basic information: Construction period Until 1720 Single building yes Original use Residential and commercial building Size of land 1,899 m² Number of building on this land 4

Short description (extracted from the monument registry): A merchant’s house; remarkable remains of a Baroque courtyard facility of significant dimensions. In 1719 it was a residential half-timbered construction with characteristically decorative brick-infilling and artistic Baroque sandstone portals, bedecked with pilasters carrying coats of arms, acanthus tendrils and keystone fashioned with a sculpted lion head. The internal structure and many details are preserved. In the drive-through passage a neoclassical portal opens up into a public hall. Two eastern wings are preserved from further constructions of the courtyard; on the western side only small parts of the building remain. 22 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

In danger: Reichenstraße 42

Basic information: Construction period until 1720 Single building yes Original use residential and commercial building Size of land 182 m² Number of building on this land 2

Short description (extracted from the monument registry): A house for a farming townsman, in the core there is a half-timbered construction from 1666. The house has an extraordinary outward projection, with a rank of windows, sloped roof, qualitative and classical layout of the facade (ashlars and fascia cornice), gate installation and windows from around 1840.

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In danger: Steinweg 26

Basic information: Construction period until 1830 Single building yes Original use residential and commercial building Size of land 716 m² Number of building on this land 6

Short description (extracted from the monument registry): The remains of an extensive courtyard building. The front house is an impressive Baroque half-timbered construction from around 1740. The proportionate facade was created by decorative brick infilling and projecting mouldings, further accentuated by a two-storey high, flat, box-typed oriel window and a triangular gable. The spatial structure has been mostly preserved as original. There are side wings built with ashlar masonry and west wings with half-timbered construction. The lower floor has a post-and-beam construction; the upper floor was constructed with a lap-jointing technique, dated around 1700. 24 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

In danger: Wordgasse 4 – Fleischhof (West wing)

Basic information: Construction period until 1620 Single building yes Original use Residential and commercial building Size of land 3,800 m² Number of building on this land 7

Short description (extracted from the monument registry): The merchant’s courtyard (Fleischhof) was until 1320 a collegiate fief, at that time possessed by the city. It is directly connected to the southern old city wall and includes a tower. There is an ensemble of artistic residential and storage buildings from 1566, 1580 and 1616, endowed with significant urban historical and architectural value. The irregular courtyard buildings are half-timbered constructions with imposing forms and sizes, where every building itself carries details of artistic quality (among others, Renaissance portals, wall lamp holders). There is a dovecot tower in the centre of the courtyard.

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How should it go on?

Just wait and see or do something to rescue? 26 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE QUEDLINBURG – COLLEGIATE CHURCH, CASTLE AND OLD TOWN

The call for help is already too late !

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