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Fassade des KaiserhausesFacade of the Emperors House |
Bildhauer des 16. Jahrhunderts / 16th century sculptor
1587/1998 |
The Kaiserhaus (Emperors House) was a Renaissance building in Hildesheim built in 1587 as the first stone dwelling house in Hildesheim for Caspar Borcholt. It was destroyed in the air raid on Hildesheim on 22 March 1945. Parts of the façade were integrated into a new building on the Alter Markt, completed in 1998, to which the name Kaiserhaus was thereby transferred.
The façade decoration integrated into the new building includes figures symbolising the Assyrian-Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman empires from the left, a bay window with representations of the four seasons, as well as 46 medallions with portraits of Roman emperors, from which the name Kaiserhaus derives.
 Assyria-Babylonia |
 Persia |
 Greece |
 Roman Empire |
The sequence of emperors begins with Julius Caesar in the bottom left row (we started our numbering top left, thus for us no. 32) and continues upwards from left to right. It ends with the 46th Emperor, Theodosius II (no. 15)
| 1. flavivs clavdivs 32 - Claudius II (268 - 270)
2. valerivs avrelianvs 33 - Aurelian (270 - 275). 3. tacitvs imperator 34 - Tacitus (275 - 276). 4. valerivs probvs 35 - Probus (276 - 282). 5. carvs narbonensis 36 - Carus (282 - 283). 6. [di]ocleti[anv]s imperator 37 - Diocletian (284 - 305). 7. constantinvs magnvs 38 - Constantius I (305 - 306). 8. constans imperator 39 - Constantine I the Great (306 - 337). |
9. zvlianvs apostota 40 - Julian the Apostate (361 - 363.)
10. zovinianvs 41 - Jovian (363 - 364). 11. valetinianvs 42 - Valentinian I the Great (364 - 375). 12. gratianvs imperator 43 - Gratian (375 - 382). 13. theodosivs imr 44 - Theodosius I the Great (379 - 395). 14. arcadivs 45 - Arcadius (395 - 408). 15. theodosivs secvndvs 46 - Theodosius II (408 - 450). |
| 16. m antoninvs philo sophvs 17 - Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180).
17. modvs av[reliv]s com 18 - Commodus (176 - 192). 18. aelivs pertinax impe 19 - Pertinax (Jan. - Mar. 193). 19. didivs ivlianvs 20 - Didius Julianus (Mar. - Jun. 193). 20. severvs imperator 21 - Septimius Severus (193 - 211). 21. antoninvs caracalla 22 - Caracalla (211 - 217). 22. popilivs macrinvs 23 - Macrinus (217 - 218). 23. varivs heliogabalvs - Elagabalus (218 - 222). |
24. alexander severvs 25 - Severus Alexander (222 - 235).
25. maximinvs 26 - Maximinus I Thrax (235 - 238). 26. gordianvs tertivs [27] - Gordian III (238 - 244). 27. philippvs arabs 28 - Philip I the Arab (244 - 249). 28. [de]civs imperator 2[9] - Decius (249 - 251). 29. valerianvs imperator 3[0] - Valerian (253 - 260). 30. gallienvs imp 31 - Gallienus (253 - 268). |
| 31. ivlivs caesar romanorvm imperator primvs - Julius Caesar.
32. avgvstvs caesar romanorvm imperator secvndvs - Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD). 33. tiberivs caesar romanorvm imperator tertivs - Tiberius (14 - 37 AD). 34. caivs caesar caligvla romanorvm imperator qvartvs - Caligula (37 - 41). 35. clavdivs caesar romanorvm imperator qvinis - Claudius (41 - 54). 36. nero caesar sextvs imperator - Nero (54 - 68). 37. lavdivs galba romanorvm imperator septimvs d s - Galba (68 - 69). 38. otho svlvivs imperator octavvs - Otho (Jan. - Apr. 69). |
39. avlvs vitelivs imperator nonvs - Vitellius (Apr. - Dec. 69).
40. vespasianvs ivgvstvs imperator decimvs - Vespasian (69 - 79). 41. titvs vespasianv[s i]mperator vndecimvs - Titus (79 - 81). 42. flavivs domitianvs imperator dvodecimvs - Domitian (81 - 96). 43. nerva cocceivs 13 Nerva (96 - 98). 44. traianvs m nerva 14 - Traianus (98 - 117). 45. aelivs adrianvs 15 - Hadrian (117 - 138). 46. antoninvs p[iv]s 16 - Antoninus Pius (138 - 161). |
 Winter as a Janus-faced man, on the back as a youth, on the front as a bearded old man with a crown. Inscription: erigore at hvberna est gravidvs nivenvbilvs aether (The cloudy sky is heavy with cold and wintry snow). |
 Spring as a seated female figure with Cupid Inscription: ver pingit vario gemmataia prata colore (Spring paints the [sprouting] meadows with bright colors). |
 Autumn as a Bacchus figure with a wine barrel, vines, fruits and a goat. Inscription: vitibvs avtvmnvs tvrgentes detrahit vvas (Autumn plucks the swelling grapes from the vines). |
 (narrow right side of the bay window) Summer as a female figure with a cornucopia. Inscription: igse vestit aros cvlais cerealibvs aesias (erroneous, correct is: ignea vestit agros cvlmis cerealibvs aestas (The hot summer clothes the fields with the stalks of grain). |
 (narrow left side of the bay window) Female figure with a dove - possibly an allegorical depiction of Spes - without an inscription. |
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