Bakery House (Augsburg)

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Bakery Augsburg, around 1870
Successor building in the middle of the picture

The baker's house (formerly also known as the Beckenhaus ) on Augsburger Perlachberg was a former guild house that was built in 1602 according to plans by Elias Holl . After the destruction in World War II , the ruins were demolished to widen the street and replaced by a modern commercial building in 1950.

history

After a conflagration in 1398, which destroyed a whole row of houses from St. Peter to the Barefoot Monastery , the magistrate had a baker's guild house built on Perlachberg. After the previous building was demolished in 1602, the City Council commissioned Elias Holl with a new building. The narrow five-story building, structured on the three upper floors with pilasters , was based on Italian models. The classic column order was used for the first time in Augsburg . The property, which housed bread shops, guild rooms and apartments, was owned by the Augsburg bakers' guild from 1650 to 1863. The bakers gathered there a few times a year to discuss guild matters. Most recently the house was privately owned.

During the air raids on Augsburg on the night of February 25th to 26th, 1944, the building burned down completely. A draft for a reconstruction worked out by the city planning office was rejected by the city planning council at the time. In order to widen the street on Perlachberg, the ruin was demolished at the end of the 1940s and replaced in 1950 by a modern office building with a narrower floor plan with a raised café.

literature

  • Werner Lutz: Augsburg's way to the modern city 1907–1972. The Augsburg artists' association “Die Ecke” as a critical companion. Edited by the Schwaben Architecture Museum and the Arno Buchegger Foundation. 2001, pp. 182-183.
  • Johannes Hallinger: Augsburg - Window to the Past: Photos of old Augsburg 1870–1944 from the image archive of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2007, p. 50.
  • Julius Baum: The buildings of Elias Holl. 1908, pp. 45-49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paperback from Augsburg or: Topographical-statistical description of the city . 1830 ( google.de [accessed on 23 August 2018]).
  2. ^ Memorandum on the commercial circumstances of the bakers' guild in Augsburg . Printed by C. Reichenbach, 1863 ( google.de [accessed on 23 August 2018]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '10.2 "  N , 10 ° 53' 54.1"  E