Baroque barn (Volkach)

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The baroque barn in Volkach

The Barockscheune (also Weinstrasse 7 ) is a historical barn building in the old town of Volkach in which the museum of the Volkach community , the so-called Museum Barockscheune , is housed.

history

Barn and tool shed

The history of the barn is closely linked to the adjoining Weinstrasse 5 house. Originally both properties were on the same property. In 1698, Johann Michael Balbus, who was one of the richest citizens of the city of Volkach, owned the two buildings. He was Vogt of the Würzburg Juliusspital and thus an important official of the authorities in the city. The Balbus family and their relatives were responsible for the Baroque transformation of large parts of the Volkach townscape.

A fire destroyed parts of the old town in 1695. The reconstruction initially affected the residential buildings; it was not until 1714 that the barn was rebuilt as a stone structure. In the 18th century, influential families lived in the neighboring house. Nicolaus Horn, a wine merchant and Lorentz Martin Seiler, Mayor of Volkach in 1787 , are proven owners. In the 19th century the property came to the Gerolzhöfer merchants Frainier.

In February 1864 the Volkach businessman Josef Leininger bought it from Sebastian Frainier's widow. The property was probably divided, so that one plot of land with a residential house and well house (house number 195, Weinstrasse 5) and a second with a courtyard house, horse and cow stables, barn with cellar , pigsty and courtyard (house number 196, Weinstrasse 7) was created. On January 12, 1874, Johann Martin, an economist, bought the property with the Leininger barn. In 1874 Johann Martin bought the property, in 1897 it passed to the Melber Franz Erb.

The city of Volkach bought the house at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1929, the house in front of the barn, with which it formed a corner courtyard, was still occupied by the scrap iron dealer Friedrich Lermig. However, the city had it torn down in order to build the volunteer fire brigade's tool shed there before 1936 . In the period that followed, the barn had various uses, for example garden herbs were dried there during the Second World War .

Baroque barn museum

The museum of the city of Volkach and the Mainschleife have been housed in the baroque barn since 2003. Among other things, the Salbuch is exhibited there. There is also space for a large wooden city model. A permanent exhibition shows the history of the city, its districts and the Volkacher Mainschleife . Various special exhibitions complete the offer. The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments lists the Volkach baroque barn under the number D-6-75-174-128 as a monument . The building belongs to the Volkach Old Town ensemble, the underground remains of the previous building are classified as a ground monument .

architecture

The barn once formed an angle courtyard with a building that has now been demolished . It is set back and has exposed quarry stone masonry . The two-storey mansard roof structure has square sandstone walls . The roof is covered with beaver tails and has dormers . A modern arched gate with quarry stone masonry delimits the property.

literature

  • Ute Feuerbach: The baroque barn - facts and fictions about a converted monument . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 1993-2007 . Volkach 2008. pp. 301-305.
  • Günther Schmitt: House chronicle of the city of Volkach as a mirror of the bourgeoisie. From the end of the 17th century until today (= Volkacher Hefte vol. 19) . Volkach 2017.
  • Günther Schmitt: From the court of the Johann Michael Balbus patrician family to the baroque barn . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Our Main Loop. 2008-2017 . Volkach 2018. pp. 138–142.

Web links

Commons : Barockscheune (Volkach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schmitt, Günther: From the court of the patrician family Johann Michael Balbus to the baroque barn . P. 138 f.
  2. ↑ Feuerbach, Ute: The baroque barn . P. 301.
  3. ↑ Schmitt, Günther: House chronicle of the city of Volkach . P. 159.
  4. ↑ Schmitt, Günther: From the court of the patrician family Johann Michael Balbus to the baroque barn . P. 142.
  5. ↑ Schmitt, Günther: From the court of the patrician family Johann Michael Balbus to the baroque barn . P. 138.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 36.4 ″  E