Baderhaus (Sommerach)
The so-called Baderhaus is a listed residential building in the Lower Franconian community of Sommerach . It is located at Winzerstraße 32 and now houses a restaurant.
history
The bath house played an important role in the hygiene of the village during the Middle Ages and the early modern period . The bathing room was first mentioned in the 15th century. It probably went back to a spiritual foundation because the Bader remained closely associated with the Catholic community in later centuries. The building and the tools of the barber were maintained by the community of Sommerach.
The Münsterschwarzach monastery first issued bathing regulations in 1450. After that, the house was open for body cleansing on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. A simple bath cost one pfennig , a new haircut two pfennigs. In the 16th century, the job of the bather, who was responsible for wound care as well as body hygiene and hair cutting in the village, changed from a dishonorable to an honorable one. Today's bath house could have existed as early as 1561.
At the transition to the 17th century, Bernhard Holzhäuser ran the bathhouse. He was allegedly discredited by his competitors by claiming that syphilis was spreading through the Sommeracher Bad. The Würzburg prince-bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn then set up a commission which, after questioning, acquitted the Bader. However, the allegations were likely not made up of thin air. Bernhard Holzhäuser left Sommerach after the affair.
The end of the Sommerach bathing room came a few years later. In the Thirty Years' War in particular , many bathing rooms closed because customers stayed away. In the centuries that followed, bathing was branded as supposedly superfluous. Citizens moved into the bath house. Today there is a restaurant in the premises. The Baderhaus is registered as an architectural monument by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments .
description
The Baderhaus is a two-storey half - hipped roof building in half-timbered construction . In its current form it goes back to the 18th century. In essence, it probably dates back to the second half of the 16th century. The house now has modern windows. A figure niche is no longer used.
literature
- Dionys Först, Theodor Joseph Scherg: History of the village of Sommerach am Main . Wuerzburg 1902.
- Winfried Kraus: Sommerach. New chronicle of the romantic wine village on the Mainschleife. Sommerach 2007.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kraus, Winfried: Sommerach . P. 108.
- ^ Först, Dionys (among others): History of the village of Sommerach am Main . P. 29.
- ↑ Kraus, Winfried: Sommerach . P. 109.
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 39.3 " N , 10 ° 12 ′ 11.4" E