Kornhofspeicher, Cultural heritage monument in Andreasviertel, Erfurt, Germany
Kornhofspeicher is a four-story storage building in Erfurt with a complex wooden frame supporting multiple bays and topped by a distinctive beaver tail tile roof. The facade spans 21 window axes and displays the typical proportions of a large medieval warehouse.
The granary was built between 1465 and 1467 by the city council of Erfurt and replaced a previous cemetery site. Its construction occurred during a period when Erfurt was growing as a major trading center requiring larger storage capacity.
The building shows typical medieval storage architecture with its robust wooden frame that carried the weight of grain supplies and remains intact to this day. This structure embodied the practical design merchants and craftspeople needed to store and protect their goods.
The building now functions as a parking garage with approximately 90 spaces while preserving its exterior appearance. The interior was adapted for modern use while the outer structure and roof maintain their original form.
The wooden frame inside consists of a four-nave system, an engineering solution that distributed weight evenly and gave the building exceptional stability. This technical detail remains hidden today beneath the modern parking garage function, yet the original construction survives completely intact.
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