Backhaus (Dirmstein)

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Bakehouse
Bakehouse from the southeast

Bakehouse from the southeast

Data
place Dirmstein
Architectural style Late baroque
Construction year 1730
Coordinates 49 ° 33 ′ 51.6 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 45"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 51.6 "  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 45"  E
Backhaus (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Bakehouse

The bakery in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality Dirmstein is under monument protection standing historic stone house with half-timbered share , whose older eastern part was built in the first half of the 18th century. Originally it was the company resulting from its name function , later it became a wine bar rebuilt. This is currently closed after a water pipe burst in winter .

Geographical location

The building in the north-west of the town center is at Herrengasse 51 and is on the corner with Obertor . Within a radius of 200 meters there are numerous other historical buildings, such as the baroque Laurentius Church , the old town hall , the Koeth-Wanscheidsche and the Sturmfedersche Castle .

The Backhaus is one of the first stops on the Chorbrünnel circular route , which connects architectural and scenic sights inside and outside Dirmstein.

building

The Backhaus, whose longitudinal axis runs east-west direction in, has a rectangular plan and is adjacent traufständig to the Herrngasse while the Ostgiebel to the road has Obertorplatz. It consists of a full mezzanine floor that is used for catering. The attic, which lies under the half -hip roof, has one large and three small dormers, all of which face south, and contains an apartment. The brick basement is plastered white. The entrance on the south side is on Herrengasse and is reached via a three-step sandstone staircase . The eastern gable side of the upper floor is made of dark decorative framework, the infills are plastered in white. All of the rectangular windows in the house have no shutters.

A historic oven is built into the inner wall in front of the former bakery, which is now used as the kitchen . At the western end of the property, the house has a small patio with three tables next to an old stone fountain . In summer, another patio can be used on the widened sidewalk in front of the east side of the house.

Building history

Lintel with the year 1730 and guild mark

The bakery offered the citizens a central place where they could have their bread baked or bake it themselves. The building is already marked on the old town plan from 1746, and a chisel on the sandstone lintel attests to the year 1730. Below the year, the reliefs of a pretzel and two loaves of bread as a guild symbol of the bakery trade can be seen. The predecessor building, presumed to be in the same place, was probably destroyed in 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession , when the entire place was burned down by French troops. Dendrochronological investigations carried out on comparable Dirmstein houses, e.g. B. at the old town hall, prove that an organized reconstruction began only around 1720.

The building, which had become dilapidated over the course of almost three centuries, was acquired at the end of the 1990s by the French couple François and Marie-Colette Sagnier and restored to an attractive style. It was extended to the west by an extension in the same style, which, according to the conservationists, blends in harmoniously with the complex and the surrounding area. During the expansion, the three small dormers were also put on, which match the style of the large old one.

literature

Web links

Commons : Backhaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 28 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
  2. ↑ The Dirmstein bakery becomes the renaissance . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen October 7, 2003.
  3. ↑ Bird chart from 1746 . In: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt . P. 1, 418.
  4. ↑ Again a “certain variety”. Dirmstein: Gastronomy businesses in the village . In: Die Rheinpfalz , local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen January 12, 2007.