Old Town Hall (Gersthofen)
The old town hall , formerly Gutshof Strasser or Maierhof , in the town of Gersthofen in the Augsburg district ( Bavaria ) dates from the 18th century and is a listed building.
history
The former Wirtssölde with Tafernwirtschaft existed in Gersthofen since the 15th century. Associated with this was the right to serve wine , as well as the right to brew and bake. In 1431 it came into the possession of Martin Perzel. In the 16th century, the property with the former house number 6 was taken over by a Maier family. At the beginning of the 19th century the owner was the innkeeper Joseph Anton Schmid, who came from Steinekirch and who was born Anna Maria in Gersthofen in 1793. Schimp from Bobingen had married. How the inn got the name Strasser tells the following story: When the house servant of the brewery opened the gate early in the morning on October 10, 1811, he found a newborn boy in front of it. Since the Schmid couple themselves were without body heirs, they took the child with them and, because they had found it on the street, gave it the name Joseph Strasser.
Since the death of his foster parents, Joseph Strasser has been running the brewery with an inn and the associated estate, which from then on became known under the name Zum Strasser . He married Walburga nee in Gersthofen in 1849. Fleiner, who gave birth to twelve children between 1850 and 1865. On July 15, 1850, a fire broke out in the chimney of the inn, which could be put out with the help of the local residents. The fire damage amounted to 1000 florins. After the death of his father, Georg Strasser inherited the brewery and estate. In 1922 he had the so-called Strasser Villa built in the adjacent vegetable garden for his daughter Theresia, who was married to the cattle dealer and later co-owner of the Franz Konrad brewery . In 1930 the brewery owner Georg Strasser lived in the villa alone. The Strasser'sche Brewery had to cease operations in 1934 for economic reasons .
In 1941 the municipality of Gersthofen acquired the entire building complex for 217,000 RM from Ludwig Graf von und zu Arco-Zinneberg, who had previously bought it in a foreclosure from Wilhelm Konrad. In the 1950s the inn was temporarily run under the name Goldener Adler . The older part of the ensemble, the more than 500-year-old listed tavern, was completely demolished in 1978 due to dilapidation, subject to the condition of the supervisory authority at the time to rebuild the building in the same place in its old form. The reconstruction under plans by the architect Hermann Öttl in collaboration with Fritz Döbler began in a slightly different form in July 1978. The adjoining gable building, which has served as the town hall since 1949 and since the demolition of the old restaurant, is now the oldest part of the complex, was opened on the occasion of its inclusion in the new town hall complex greatly changed from 1993 to 1995.
architecture
The two-storey gable building with corner core and eaves-sided side wing is the remainder of an original three-wing complex and essentially consists of the first half of the 18th century.
literature
- Johannes Krauße (Ed.): Chronicle of the city of Gersthofen: 969–1989. Gersthofen 1989, DNB 891256881
- Gersthofen - Becoming and growing a community , 1954: p. 168
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augsburger Tagblatt: 1850.7 / 12 . Reichel, 1850 ( google.de [accessed on July 9, 2018]).
- ^ History - Gersthofer Citizens' Initiative. Retrieved on July 10, 2018 (German).
Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '28.2 " N , 10 ° 52' 43.9" E