Schlettau beer spring
| Bierquelle Gasthaus Bierquelle |
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 State in 2018, street view |
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| Data | |
| place | Schlettau , Kirchgasse 16 |
| Construction year | 1731 |
| Floor space | 88 m² |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 '32.8 " N , 12 ° 57' 0.4" E |
| particularities | |
| monument | |
The Bierquelle inn is one of the numerous preserved architectural monuments in the center of Schlettau . In the 17th century, the house of a house owner stood here . After the first building burned down, the current building was erected on the same site in the first third of the 18th century. After several changes of ownership and renovations, it has served as a restaurant and guesthouse since the end of the 20th century .
history
The two-story stone and plastered house on the street in Kirchgasse was built by the agricultural citizen Christian Friedrich Hinkel for his family in 1731. Previously, several city fires had destroyed all residential buildings, mostly made of wood, from the previous centuries. At this point there was already a half-timbered house from the Middle Ages . It was owned by the brewer family Döhmel .
In 1832 Gottlob Ferdinand Beyer bought the house for his family. In addition to the agriculture in the rear area , the owner opened an inn called “Beyer's Bierquelle” in the ground floor rooms. The name was emblazoned just above the archway. The beer served here was probably brewed on site, because - as shown above - the previous owner was a brewer in the 17th century .
After several generations, the property passed into the ownership of the Bonitz family in 1938, who renamed the inn “Bierquelle” and continued to operate it. When the Second World War ended, the restaurant was closed, but was reopened in 1951 by Erna and Emil Bonitz. After the family joined the LPG in 1960 , they closed the restaurant again. The large dining room was converted into a living room, and the large tiled stove was installed in 1973 .
After the fall of the Wall , the heirs of the owner family, Renate and Günter Bonitz, had the building renovated in accordance with a listed building by 1993 with the help of a loan from the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau and reopened a small restaurant on the ground floor under the name "Bierquelle". Accommodation was created in other rooms, including the expanded attic, so that since 1993 three guest rooms have been available as a guesthouse with a total of 8 beds. Beer is only served here, no longer brewed.
description
The house, newly plastered in striking Swedish red, has two floors facing the street, with seven rectangular lattice windows on the upper floor and four windows at ground level with a highlighted round portal in between. The portal is bordered on the left and right by wheel deflectors , which prevented damage from the farm wagons driving into the yard. The passage is closed with a carved and beautifully restored three-leaf door with skylights . The keystone in the center of the arc containing the designed initials of the owner of 1731 CFH (= C hristian F riedrich H inkel), the representation is based on Church symbols (cross, ship).
Next to the door walls, on one side of the archway, there is a cast iron wall lantern, which is based on the original original equipment. Discreetly colored flower ornaments are applied to the plaster on both sides of the keystone in white fields above the arch.
On the courtyard side (left) there is a low building that used to be the cowshed . Its facade is decorated with small agricultural implements. During the renovation work in the 1990s, the gable side of this stable building received a carport extension. On the beam, the Bonitz family has put a sign on the country clinic , which guests have brought with them. It should be disposed of due to the closure of this medical facility . A small, rustic beer garden has also been set up on this same courtyard .
A plaque carved out of stone on the courtyard side proclaims: "In this house Anton Günther sang his beautiful homeland songs on March 20, 1927". Signature: EZV Schlettau (EZV = Erzgebirgs-Zweigverein ). Underneath it is noted that this plaque used to hang at the entrance to the Schützenhaus , the main building of the Schlettau Schützenverein.
The restaurant has been used as a meeting place for five local associations for several years . Popular sports events often end here. Its most striking features are a wood-paneled counter and a man- high tiled stove, above which a hanging pyramid is attached to the ceiling . It reminds the guests that the Ore Mountains are also known as "Christmas Land".
To the left of the entrance to the property there is a memorial plaque indicating that this is the birthplace of Christian Döhmel (1643–1711), who later worked as a church musician under the Latinized name Christianus Demelius in Nordhausen and Jena. - The board refers to the previous building, which belonged to the couple Paul and Maria Döhmel in the 17th century. At the time, Döhmel was a well-known local beer brewer. The board was attached later, only after the house files had been evaluated.
On the website of the Saxon Monument Protection Authority, it says about the beer source: "Typical plastered building with a former large gate passage, numerous details inside have been preserved, of architectural and historical importance." In detail, the profiled window frames on the ground floor with largely original windows in size and position, the profiled eaves cornice with a gable roof , inside a stone staircase to the top floor and the guest room with a stucco ceiling and a groin vault .
Web links
- Exact address, location, contact options for the beer source in Schlettau
- Bierquelle Schlettau on Annaberger Wochenblatt .
- Detailed biography of Christianus Demelius alias Christian Dö (h) mel, previous owner of the later Schlettauer Bierquelle: in: Official Journal Schlettau, No. 3/2013, p. 10.