Bassenheimer Hof

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Bassenheimer Hof

The Bassenheimer Hof in Mainz was built in the immediate vicinity of the Osteiner Hof as an urban aristocratic seat in 1750 according to plans by the electoral chief building director Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Grünstein (also called Groenesteyn). The order was placed in 1743 by Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein (1689–1763), elected elector . The building was intended to serve as a widow's seat for his sister Maria Antonetta Countess von Bassenheim. His younger sister (1710–1788) had been married to Rudolf Johann Graf Waldbott von Bassenheim (1686–1731) since 1726 and after the sudden death of their husband after five years of marriage they had to raise five children, including Rudolf Waldbott von Bassenheim .

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The building thus joined the group of other baroque aristocratic palaces such as the Schönborner Hof , the Erthaler Hof and the Osteiner Hof around Schillerplatz .

During his temporary studies in Paris, the architect was particularly influenced by the facades of the Place Vendome and the Hôtel de Torcy by Germain Boffrand , who planned it in 1713 for Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy, as his retirement home. This palace is now called the Hôtel de Beauharnais and serves as the residence of the German ambassador in Paris. The elegant, restrained design language of the classic French Baroque architecture became his dominant forms of expression here in Mainz.

The interior room layout as well as the garden on the slope of the Kästrich and all the furnishings from around 1755 have disappeared due to frequent renovations and war damage.

General Adam-Philippe de Custine occupied the city of Mainz as early as 1792 . The nobility and clergy were on the run.

After the palace was sold in 1835 to the military authorities of what was then the Mainz fortress , the Bassenheimer Hof was used as a barracks until 1889. Later, multiple different users, such as a Viennese café or a flag embroidery, can be identified.

In more recent times

Alliance coat of arms of the Waldbott von Bassenheim and von Ostein am Bassenheimer Hof families . As a shield holder the Osteiner Greyhound

During the Second World War, this building burned down completely in 1942, but was restored in 1947/48 at the instigation of the French occupying power.

For some time the Bassenheimer Hof was the seat of the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate before the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate moved here in 1960.

Surroundings

Today in gastronomic circles there is an outstanding restaurant with the name Am Bassenheimer Hof right next to it, better known than the Palais itself. The restaurant is located in a winery built in 1794 ( Winzerhaus Acker 10 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Reves: Building blocks for the history of the city of Mainz: Mainz Colloquium 2000 . tape 55 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-515-08176-3 , pp. 142 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 4 ″  E