Ad van der Kouwe: One of 1000 Naumburg facades
Naumburg will be one thousand years old in 2028. To mark the occasion, graphic artist Ad van der Kouwe had the idea of immortalizing 1000 Naumburg facades in graphic form.
In doing so, the Dutchman is not only paying homage to his adopted home, but also launching a mammoth project: He will create an average of two hundred views of buildings from Naumburg and the surrounding area each year (he has just under two days to create one). Every single day - in addition to his daily breadwinner - will be long. He is serious about it and is on schedule: He presented the first 200 facades to the public in an exhibition at the Naumburg Kunsthalle in 2024. Among them: the facade of the building at Herrenstr. 3.
In addition, all one thousand facades are summarised in book form in five volumes. The first volume was published in 2024. This is what the cover looks like, which whets the appetite for more:
You can buy it directly from the publisher here, for example.
It's nice that the artist has also included Herrenstr. 3. Would you like to follow the traces?
If you come from the direction of Naumburg's market square and walk towards the cathedral, you will soon find yourself on Herrenstraße. You will find us righthand side shortly after Engelgasse turns off to the left. Opposite is the Reiseland travel agency and the Schlegel butcher's shop.
If you are coming from the cathedral, you walk along Steinweg towards Naumburg's market square. Cross the Lindenring at the pedestrian walkway, the street is now called Herrenstraße. Stroll past a number of shops and you will find us on the left.
It's easy to recognise the building at Herrenstraße 3: Just look out for a large clock that has stopped shortly after half past one, for the advertisement of our predecessor "Drogerie Spannaus" in fractured lettering and for the golden sphinx. It is not clear why it is resting on the building and not being disturbed by the hustle and bustle below. What is certain is that Friedrich Nietzsche went in and out of the house, as he regularly visited his childhood friend Wilhelm Pinder there.
