Old Ebracher Hof
The Alte Ebracher Hof is a listed building in Bamberg . It is the first city palace of the Ebrach monastery from the 17th century.
history
The Cistercian monastery Ebrach in Bamberg can be traced back to the 12th century. At that time it had to share a complex with the cisterns of Langheim and Heilbronn , which was presumably a predecessor of the Langheimer Hof (Obere Karolinenstrasse 8) on the western Domberg . Between 1200 and 1213, the monastery acquired its own building for the first time, which was probably located on the Lower Kaulberg at the level of the Pfarrgässchen. Until it was built over with the New Ebracher Hof in the 18th century, this now-defunct parallel street of the Hinteren Bach led from there to the Vorderen Bach.
In the 16th century, the Ebrach monastery was able to gradually expand its property between the Lower Kaulberg and the Vorderen Bach through acquisitions. In 1547 at the latest, it acquired the previous building of the Old Ebracher Hof. In the 14th century it was still called "zu dem Esel", probably after the family of the two Eseler brothers, who were mentioned when the building was first mentioned in a document in 1264 on the occasion of a donation. In 1614/15 the acquisition of the beneficiary Beatae Mariae Virginis, which is probably located on the south of today's parcel, followed .
In 1679, the master builder Andreas Kestler from Zeil am Main was commissioned to build a new building on the site of the donkey house and the benefice house. This was completed in 1681 or 1682. The coat of arms in the gable bears the year 1681, the year 1682 is at the entrance to the spiral staircase. The latter is only likely to indicate that it was added after the main building was completed. In 1738, under Abbot Wilhelm Söllner, the sculptor Daniel Friedrich Humbach enriched the facade with a house figure from the Bernhardus legend .
In the course of secularization , the Alte Ebracher Hof came into public ownership at the beginning of the 19th century, and later into private ownership. Various structural changes were made, especially inside the building. In 1980, as part of the third five-year plan for the preservation of monuments, repairs were carried out, primarily on the now dilapidated gable. Even after baroque changes, such as oversized windows, were restored to their original dimensions.
architecture
The Alte Ebracher Hof is a three-storey stone house standing on a wide, almost square parcel with a three-storey saddle roof facing the gable ends with volute gables . The main facade facing the Vorderen Bach is six-axis, the flanks and the rear facade facing the courtyard are irregularly distributed over four axes; the storeys of the gable taper from four to two axes, the top attic storey under the ridge only has a hatch-like opening at the rear.
Architectural parts and the corner blocks are made of sandstone , the rest of the building of plastered bricks. The entire appearance is characterized by an illusionistic joint painting, which could be reconstructed in 1980 based on original findings from the construction period. The basic tone is a strong reddish ocher, the painted joints are white, as are the window canopies except for the mirrors and all the sculptural parts of the gable.
The windows all have the drilled frames typical for the time of construction, on the ground floor facing the Vorderen Bach with grilles from the 19th century, on the two upper floors with roofs in the form of simple, compact mirrors with a simple cornice crowning. The former main entrance on the Vorderen Bach instead of the two central axes comes from more recent times and, with its drilled frame, follows the design of the windows.
Both volute gables have strong horizontal cornices, vertically between the transversely oval windows, grooved in both axes with wedge-shaped stones, which are elevated in the outline of the gable by antique pedestals with spherical attachments. The outline is followed by scrolls rolled up on both sides with acanthus decorations, which are designed as donkey heads in the lowest gable as a reminiscence of the old house name. The ridge is crowned by a shell lunette . In the uppermost gable to the brook, instead of a window, there is a double coat of arms of the Cistercian order and the abbot of Ebrach, Albert (or Alberich) Degen with the inscription "ALBERICVS / ABBAS EBRACENSIS XXIX A ° 1681".
On the north-east corner on the first floor there is a representation of Christ leaning from the cross to embrace Bernhard von Clairvaux . The Cistercian coat of arms and that of Abbot Wilhelm Söllner are attached to the pedestal of the group of figures, which is structured by volutes.
literature
- The art monuments of Bavaria, Bamberg, bourgeois mountain town , Volume 4, 1st half volume, page 471ff
Web links
- bamberga.de
- Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments via the Alten Ebracher Hof. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Old Ebracher Hof. In: arch INFORM .
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '24.3 " N , 10 ° 53' 3.2" E