Baumann's House (Eppingen)
The Baumannsche House (House Kirchgasse 31) in Epping in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg is a Grade II listed timber-framed house , which many in the press and literature was mentioned and as one of the most beautiful half-timbered buildings in Baden applies.
history
The building was built in Franconian half-timbered construction in 1582/83 from carved oak beams on a ground floor made of sandstone . The butcher and cattle dealer Hans Ziemer is considered to be the builder of the house.
In 1913, the building came into the possession of the city of Eppingen in a poor condition, which it renovated and used as a residential building for city officials from 1914. In 1934 the building was converted into a youth hostel . The youth hostel has received many praise for its space. In the late war years, the building served as a dormitory for employees of Knoll AG, which was relocated from Ludwigshafen to Eppingen in 1944 (today part of Abbott Laboratories ).
After the Second World War , the building was parceled out into residential units due to the prevailing housing shortage. The facade was repainted in 1953, but the interior remained in its condition for a long time after the renovation in 1913. By the 1970s, “the level of the residents had fallen” and the building was in danger of deteriorating. In 1979, the building was finally given long-term to tenants willing to renovate, who had the roof re-covered, doors and windows replaced, and the facade and interior redecorated. In 1982 a restaurant was opened in the basement, since then two conference rooms furnished in the style of the Renaissance have been available on the first floor with the restored Renaissance parlors .
Baumann's house was already considered a “patriotic monument” around 1900, it was described as a “masterpiece of half-timbered architecture”, “highlight of timber construction in the Kraichgau” and “most beautiful half-timbered building in the landscape” and is a photo motif to be found in numerous publications. In 2010, Baumannsche Haus was the motif of a Deutsche Post stamp designed by Dieter Ziegenfeuter .
description
Baumann's house is a two-story half-timbered building on a high, solid base. It is covered by a gable roof . The half-timbered structure of the two projecting storeys and the three gable storeys has numerous handcrafted decorations, including framed corner window groups and a wide variety of carvings such as grimaces, oak leaves, scale patterns, cubes, scrolls, volutes and rosettes .
The house has various envious heads . On the sloping corner of the house on the basement facing the Altstadtstrasse, in the tapering upper corner, there is a stone lion's face with a wide, closed mouth and a hanging ring. The date 158 (?) Is carved under this face. On the corner post of the half-timbered floor above, one of the consoles is also designed as an envious head, which has the shape of a bearded male head. Three other heads can be seen in the lintel on the first floor above the door. Above the left window there are two more bearded male heads, above the right window a grimace with wide eyes and a tongue hanging out with a ring. While the lion and the grimace above the right window can clearly be addressed as envious heads, the archaic bearded male heads are not clearly envious heads. Rather, the builder and carpenter could have immortalized themselves in portraits. Nevertheless, the wealthy builder of the building certainly had to fear the envy of his fellow men and every reason to provide the house with several envious heads.
Gable end
Corner stand on the first floor with envious head
Lion face and date on the corner of the basement
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kiehnle: The Baumann House in Eppingen (1982)
- ↑ Gängel: Contemplative trips in the Rhein-Neckar-Land (1981)
- ↑ Gängel: The Great Northern Baden Book (1967)
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of January 6, 1954
- ↑ Röcker 1999, pp. 350/51.
literature
- Edmund Kiehnle : The Baumann house in Eppingen . In: Around the Ottilienberg. Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and the surrounding area , ed. von den Heimatfreunde Eppingen , Volume 2, Eppingen 1982, pp. 102-106
- Bernd Röcker: Envious people in Kraichgau . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 16, 1999, p. 349–364, here p. 350/51 with fig. 1 to 4.
- Julius Fekete : Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn. Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , pp. 146-149.
Web links
- W. Thiem: Monument conservation value plan for the entire Eppingen complex . Regional Council Stuttgart, Department for Monument Preservation, 2008. ( as pdf )
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 17 " N , 8 ° 54 ′ 43" E