Gasthaus zum Bären (Frankfurt-Höchst)
The Gasthaus zum Bären is a traditional restaurant in Frankfurt-Höchst . The inn on the Höchster Schloßplatz has existed since 1799; An inn "Black Bear" has been in the same place since the early 18th century. The current building is a listed building .
history
The first reference to the “Schwarzer Bär” inn at the same place comes from the year 1744, when the landlord Georg Bär died. His son-in-law Stephan Siebenborn succeeded him as the landlord of the inn, which was run under the name Gasthaus zum Bären as early as 1745 . In 1746, Siebenborn took over the “Karpfen” inn on the same site , the landlord of which had died in March 1744, and gave up the bear . From 1750 to 1767 Michael Biener was the host of the bear. he had the house rebuilt extensively.
The Huber family ran the inn until the end of the 18th century. In 1799, she had the previous building converted into today's half-timbered house in the classicism style with a noble rendered facade.
architecture
The three-storey building rises above a massive ground floor that is clad with elements of red Main sandstone , some of which have been elaborately worked : Below the windows, in the Baroque tradition, there are square mirrors cut in the corners by quarter circles. Are also not yet received from the construction period main door and the door leaf, which with tooth section Detachable skylight is stylish typically formed by four connected longitudinally rings. Above it, the house sign can be seen in a more recent color version , two bears holding an oval, monotonous shield, flanked by the date of construction in the form 17 and 99 .
The eight evenly distributed windows on each floor are closed by segmental arches , but unlike the seven on the ground floor no longer have the original shutters . The individual storeys are separated by strong, but simply profiled cornices with only slightly contrasting colors . Only below the eaves line of the gable roof shows the tooth cut again. It also continues in the central, triangular dwelling with oval windows, each flanked by a porthole .
The room layout and the interior with wood paneling and wooden ceiling date from 1908, when the inside of the house was rebuilt. There are still five vaulted cellars that can be dated to the 17th to 18th centuries.
gastronomy
The Höchst Schloßplatz, with its traditional restaurants Zum Bären , Alte Zollwache and Zum Schwan, is a popular destination in Frankfurt from spring to autumn. The bear serves home-style cooking and traditional Frankfurt dishes such as semolina sauce , ribs with cabbage and hand cheese with music . He is in Frankfurt food guides such as the Journal Frankfurt issued Frankfurt geht aus! to be found regularly at the top of its category.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Schäfer: Chronicle of Höchst am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1986: Waldemar Kramer, p. 85.
- ↑ Heinz Schomann, Volker Rödel, Heike Kaiser: Monument topography city of Frankfurt am Main. Revised 2nd edition, limited special edition on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1994: Societäts-Verlag, ISBN 3-7973-0576-1 .
- ↑ Excerpt from Frankfurt goes from 2011! des Journals Frankfurt (PDF; 3.7 MB) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ City magazine Prinz : Review of the Gasthaus zum Bären ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 55.7 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 51.6 ″ E