Old Post Office (Eppingen)
The Alte Post house in Eppingen , a town in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , is a half-timbered house in Kraichgau that was built around 1588 . The building is protected as a cultural monument.
Building description
The house on the market square , at the corner of Brettener Strasse, is a large town house with its gable facing the square and thus helping to shape the overall impression of this central square. Two slightly protruding half-timbered floors rise above the massive ground floor, and above them a gable with two attics. The roof is slightly hipped over the tap bar . The right side of the eaves of the house leans against the neighboring house, which is also a half-timbered house.
While the left side of the eaves consists of simple half-timbering, the gable side, which is visible from afar, shows all the variants of the bracing forms that were common in the second half of the 16th century: the Franconian man , St. Andrew's crosses under the windows and grooved foot struts with eyes in the lower attic. The upper attic has ornamental shapes that are inserted into the parapet between the collar stands: St. Andrew's cross with curved rhombuses , vertical stems and parts of a circle with well-worn fish bladders and leaf shapes. The three fret stands are covered with a carving in the form of lichen.
literature
- Erwin Huxhold : Half-timbered tour through the old town . In: Half-timbered town of Eppingen. A tour of the old town . First edition 1993, second edition 1997. Published by the city and half-timbered museum “Old University” in Eppingen. Verlag Alte Uni, Eppingen, ISBN 3-926315-11-3 .
- Erwin Huxhold: The half-timbered houses in Kraichgau. A guide to the architectural monuments . Published by the Heimatverein Kraichgau e. V. 3rd supplemented edition. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2002, ISBN 3-89735-185-4 .
Web links
- City tour in Eppingen
- W. Thiem: Monument conservation value plan for the entire Eppingen complex . Regional Council Stuttgart, Department for Monument Preservation, 2008. ( as pdf )
- Description at the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 13.4 " N , 8 ° 54 ′ 32.6" E