The Pfarrwitwenhaus
by Eva Lechner
Title
The Pfarrwitwenhaus
Artist
Eva Lechner
Medium
Photograph - Photograph/digital Hand-painting
Description
The Pfarrwitwenhaus was built of wood and clay in 1719 - 1720 and is currently one of the oldest surviving residential buildings in Rügen.
After the priest Johannes Cadow died in 1718 and a woman with 4 children had to leave the rectory, the Danish provincial government, based in Stralsund, commissioned the governor John of Bergen to build a parson's widow's house in Groß Zicker. In 1720, the widow and her 4 children moved into the house.
The last parish widow -Sophia Vahl lived from 1782 - 1810 in the parish widow's house. From 1811 to 1830 the house served as a school and until 1984 it was a residential building. In 1984, the last resident of the house, Anna Glutsch, moved out of the parsonage house after her ancestors had lived in this house for four generations. The tall, pointed straw or thatched roof, the so-called "sugarloaf", is in demand. When looking at the visitor notices that this house has no chimney. It is a so-called rare "Rookhus" - the Low German name for a smoke house. The smoke of the stove formerly moved through the large entrance gate and through the small opening on the ridge - the owl hole
Old thatched house with a beautiful cottage garden in Groß Zicker on the island of Rügen,Germany
A digital hand-painting based on my photograph taken in Sept.2021
Copyright Eva Lechner
Uploaded
April 3rd, 2022
Embed
Share
