Austrian barn (Regensburg)

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Österreicher Stadel, (2013 before renovation). View of the west and south facade
Museum area (2018) with Österreicher Stadel in the background (left)

The Austrian barn in Regensburg , Donaulände No. 6, built in 1672 to operate a brewery, later used differently as a salt barn, warehouse, warehouse and museum depot, is located on the southern bank of the Danube (Marc-Aurel-Ufer), 300 m east of the Iron Bridge . The building is located a good 100 m east of the Museum of Bavarian History , which opened in 2019, and serves as a depot for this museum.

history

The three-storey square building, known today as the Österreicher Stadel, was built in 1672 for the New Braune Brewery as a warehouse and operation building. In 1775 the building was acquired by the city and converted into a salt barn with a gable roof and three rows of dormers for almost 6,000 guilders . The lower three floors were equipped with massive joists , supported by wooden square columns with saddle wood for storing the salt.

The oriented toward the Danube north portal has a lateral boundary a robe of dressed stone and shows the apex stone dating 1786. About a window right of the portal there is a small panel found with the year 1672, which, according to the Annals of Gumpelzhaimer on the building of the barn as a brewery. On the western edge of the north facade there are also high water marks of the flood events of February 1729 and July 1954. The western narrow side, also with a gate, is unadorned.

Formerly: DDSG office building, view of north and east facade (2013)

In the late 19th century around 1894, the former Salzstadel was used as a storage building for the ships of the first imperial and royal, privileged Danube Steamship Company (DDSG). The company's office building - a two-tone, structured, two-story brick building with a hipped roof from 1888 - is still preserved east of the barn and shows the company's name on the east facade. At that time, the DDSG was the leading transport company in the Danube region. To meet their needs, the city built a transit warehouse for grain to the west of the barn, the extraordinary size of which was completely oversized for the old town of Regensburg. While the barn survived the war, the huge warehouse was completely destroyed during the war in 1944 and the ruins were removed after the war. In the post-war period up to the 1980s, the barn was called "Brüchner-Stadel" because it served as a warehouse for the Brüchner furniture store, which was located on the square, during those years. After a fire caused by a lightning strike in 1988, the roof structure of the barn was renewed and the barn could serve as a depot for the Regensburg Historical Museum . As of 2014, the depot was cleared, the barn was renovated again, equipped with a new portal door and the interior set up for the needs of the Museum of Bavarian History.

literature

  • 175 years of the 1st Danube Steamship Society - From the Biedermeier to the third millennium 1829–2004 , series of publications by the Schiffahrts-Museum Regensburg eV working group

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 404 .
  2. ↑ Monument profile Donaulände 6, barn of the former Brown Brewery, Office for Archives and Monument Preservation, status 2009

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 11.5 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 16.3 ″  E