Alsfeld / Text, Peer Zietz ; Photographien, Uwe Rüdenburg.

Main entry:

Zietz, Peer.

Title & Author:

Alsfeld / Text, Peer Zietz ; Photographien, Uwe Rüdenburg.

Publication:

Fellbach : Edition Axel Menges, 1997.

Description:

60 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm.

Series:

Opus ; 29

Notes:
Also issued online.
Text in German with English translation.
Dust jacket.
German and English.

Summary:

"In 1975, the European Year of Protection of Ancient Monumemts, Alsfeld in Upper Hesse acquired model-town status, along with Berlin, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Xanten and Trier in Germany. In this way the Council of Europe was acknowledging the long tradition of monument protection in a place where an astonishingly large number of historic buildings have survived. There are numerous tightly-packed timber frame buildings in the medieval ground plan of the town, some built as long ago as the 14th century. The market-place, forming the centre of the town with town halls Weinhaus (wine house) and Hochzeitshaus (wedding house), is one of the most important complexes of its kind in Germany. The town hall, built in a way that inspired many of its German successors, was to have been pulled down in 1878 by order of the town council. It was not until residents protested that preservation and restoration of what is now the symbol of the town were assured, providing the first example of Alsfeld's tradition in this field. Even today ensembles of unique unity are to be found in its main streets. There is almost nowhere else where one can form such a good impression of a small German medieval town than here." "The present volume does not intend to show Alsfeld just as a "timber-frame museum": an attempt has also been made to show how a town of this kind has changed in the upheavals of the past 100 years by juxtaposing Uwe Rudenburg's photographs with pictures produced in about 1880 by Ludwig Bickell, Hesse's first Provincial Conservator."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

3930698293
9783930698295

Subject:

Architecture Germany Alsfeld.
Building, Wooden Germany Alsfeld.
Architecture Allemagne Alsfeld.
Construction en bois Allemagne Alsfeld.
Building, Wooden
Architecture
Buildings
Historic buildings Germany Alsfeld.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Germany Alsfeld.
Alsfeld (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Alsfeld (Allemagne) Constructions.
Germany Alsfeld

Added entries:

Rüdenburg, Uwe H.
Opus (Berlin, Germany) ; 29.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215434
Call No.: NA1086.A4 Z5 1997
Status: Available

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