District Court (Horn)
The district court on the church square of Horn is also known as a painted house or sgraffito house and is both a listed building and under the protection of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict .
history
The core of the three-storey structure dates from the 4th quarter of the 16th century. The coats of arms on the building suggest that the sgraffito images labeled 1583 were attached under Veit Albrecht von Puchheim as the owner. The pictures, which were painted over at an unknown point in time, were rediscovered, uncovered and restored in 1899/1900, but also supplemented.
The painted house has been the seat of the Horn District Court since around 1860. In the run-up to the Lower Austrian State Exhibition in 2009 , the completely renovated district court was reopened on April 30, 2009 by Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner and Governor Erwin Pröll .
description
The facade of the district court facing the church square in Horn has seven irregularly spaced windows on the two upper floors. On the first floor there are four windows, a round arched gate and an entrance to a former shop.
The parapet with the relief of a horn-blowing genius on the flat gable, described in Austrian art topography and shown in photographs, was removed at an unknown time. The decorative vases and the two female figures with the attributes of justice have been preserved.
The sgraffito images represent among other things
- the fall of man,
- the crucifixion of Christ,
- Christ in limbo,
- The Horsemen of the Apocalypse,
- the sacrifice of Isaac
as well as Fortitudo, Justitia and Fortuna.
In the courtyard there is a three-storey courtyard wing from around 1600 with pillar arcades on the ground floor and a pillared loggia on the 2nd floor. There is also a transverse two-storey rear building.
literature
- Austrian art topography, published by the kk Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments, Volume V, The Monuments of the Political District of Horn in Lower Austria , commissioned by Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1911
- DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 (1990)
Web links
- District Court Horn modernized and opened
- District court Horn is like new
- Completely refurbished district court opened in Horn
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20090430_OTS0251/generalsanierter-bezirksgericht-in-horn-eroeffnet
Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 49.5 " N , 15 ° 39 ′ 28.5" E