Old Department Store (Koblenz)

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The old department store on Florinsmarkt in Koblenz
The Moselle side of the old department store, on the left the Schöffenhaus
The eye roller at the old department store

The old department store , also known as the old department store and dance store , is a medieval building in the old town of Koblenz . The building, built in the late Gothic style from 1419 to 1425 , underwent a Baroque renovation in 1724 and housed the Middle Rhine Museum from 1965 to 2013 . Together with the Bürresheimer Hof , the Schöffenhaus and the Florinskirche, it forms an ensemble of four historic buildings on the Florinsmarkt.

history

The municipal department store and dance store was built from 1419 to 1425 in the late Gothic style. It was the only building that protruded beyond the medieval city ​​wall to the Moselle . After a first major renovation in 1476, the Koblenz town hall moved into the upper floor from 1674 to 1794 . The ground floor and the vaulted cellars were used as a stacking and warehouse until 1866.

Another complete renovation took place in 1675, and a first clock tower was also built. The building was badly damaged in the devastating bombing during the siege of the city of Koblenz in 1688 by French troops in the Palatinate War of Succession . With considerable changes, it was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1724 according to plans by the court architect Johann Georg Judas and with the assistance of the court architect Philipp Honorius von Ravensteyn . The eye roller , in memory of the robber knight Johann Lutter von Kobern , who was executed on the plan in 1536 , was also attached to the central tower. According to legend, this knight rolled his eyes and stuck out his tongue shortly before his execution.

In 1871 the municipal trade school, a forerunner of the Eichendorff grammar school , moved from the shopkeeper's guild house to the old department store and stayed here until 1907. From 1908 the collection of the arts and crafts and antiquity association, a forerunner of the municipal museum in the electoral palace , was housed on the ground floor .

Florins Market, 1903

During the air raids on Koblenz , the building with the vaulted cellar was destroyed on November 6, 1944, and it burned down to the walls. The reconstruction took place from 1961 to 1965 according to plans of the Trier building councilor Heinrich Otto Vogel (1898-1994) with a different interior layout. After the inauguration on September 3, 1965, the Middle Rhine Museum moved into the building. Since the old department store could never offer enough space for the museum, the space problems were solved in 2013 with the move to the newly built Forum Confluentes . In the same year, the city of Koblenz sold the Alte Kaufhaus together with the Bürresheimer Hof , the Dreikönigenhaus and the Schöffenhaus to a private investor (ISSOflorinsmarkt GmbH & Co. KG) who wants to renovate the building and then accommodate an institute close to the university.

construction

The rectangular, eaves-standing building has five axes and three axes on the narrow side. The side facing the Florinsmarkt is two-story, the Moselle side is three-story because of the steeply sloping terrain. On the Moselle side, the defensive character of the building, which is essentially late Gothic, has been preserved in the form of two polygonal oriel turrets with tracery decorations and bell roofs. The exterior of the building, especially on Florinsmarkt, is shaped by the baroque renovation of 1724. Here is the three-storey central tower with a clock, bell roof and lantern, laid out along the axis of symmetry . Under the clock there is a restored head relief of the eye roller , an alleged portrait of the robber baron Johann Lutter von Kobern, with movable eyes and tongue. The hipped mansard roof is adorned with dormer windows on the Florinsmarkt side, and broad, flat gables on the Moselle side . The stately, central portal leads into the new, early late Gothic hall on the ground floor. From here the former flight of stairs leads to the upper floor. In addition, there is a finely designed pilaster portal placed in front of the right outer axis. The cellar has five reconstructed groin vaults that sit on the Roman-Franconian city wall in the south.

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The Florinsmarkt with the Bürresheimer Hof , the Old Department Store, the Schöffenhaus and the Florinskirche (from left to right)

Monument protection

The old department store is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in the old town monument zone .

The old department store has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 . Furthermore, it is a protected cultural asset according to the Hague Convention and marked with the blue and white protection symbol.

literature

  • Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
    • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
    • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
  • Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The mundane monuments and the suburbs. (The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 1). Munich / Berlin 1954, pp. 176-180.
  • Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Volume 3.2: Herbert Dellwing , Reinhard Kallenbach (arr.): City of Koblenz. Downtown. Speyer 2004, ISBN 3-88462-198-X , pp. 134ff.
  • City of Koblenz: Koblenz historic old town: Dreikönigenhaus, Haus Metternich. Documentation on the reconstruction after the partial destruction in the war in 1944. Koblenz 1977.
  • Jens Fachbach: Johann Georg Judas (around 1655–1726). On the architecture of a clerical electorate on the Rhine and Moselle in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2685-9 , pp. 191-204. (for the baroque renovation but also the medieval building history)

Web links

Commons : Altes Kaufhaus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ October 14, 1536. Johann Lutter von Kobern. The legend of the eye roller. ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz
  2. ↑ Florinsmarkt: Görlitz buys the historic buildings from the city. In: Rhein-Zeitung . September 30th, 2013.
  3. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.3 MB), Koblenz 2011.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 48.7"  E