Bonhoeffer House (Schwäbisch Hall)

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Bonhoeffer House in Schwäbisch Hall

The Bonhoeffer House is a listed residential building in Schwäbisch Hall . It is located at Klosterstrasse 7.

history

The building, which is essentially medieval, shows the remains of a Staufer masonry wall at the corner of the neighboring property at Klosterstrasse 9. The house is associated with the neighboring, former beguinage (Nonnenhof 4) and the Berlerhof (Klosterstrasse 7) without any valid documentary evidence gives. The owners have been known since the late 17th century. Around 1692 the goldsmith and councilor Johann Jakob Bonhöffer (1651–1715) acquired the property. From 1716 the house belonged to his son, the Actuarius Christoph Andreas Bonhöffer (1681–1748). After his death, the younger half-brother Dr. Johann Friedrich Bonhöffer (1710–1778), councilor from 1736, councilor from 1750 and stättmeister ( mayor ) from 1770. The coat of arms stone with the Bonhöffer coat of arms (lion with beanstalk) in the tympanum of the baroque portal dates from this period. Since October 8, 1925, the building has been entered in the state directory of architectural monuments in Württemberg.

Architecture and equipment

The Bonhöfferhaus is a gabled house with a gate passage. The half-timbered gable is medieval. A hall on the 2nd floor shows ceiling paintings with antique themes and gilded ornamental stucco in the Baroque style , which were ascribed to both the Italian artist Livio Retti and the local painter Georg Michael Roscher and which were probably created in the 1740s. There is also an oven niche with stucco decoration in the classicism style and an empire oven .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See note: Entries in the list of monuments
  2. ↑ Gerd Wunder: The councilors of the imperial city Hall 1487-1803. In: Württembergisch Franken. Yearbook of the Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia. Volume 46, 1962, pp. 100-160, here p. 153, no. 381.
  3. ^ Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Hall: List of cultural monuments in the city of Schwäb. Hall. P. 271.
  4. ↑ schwaebischhall.de
  5. ↑ a b Eugen Gradmann : Hall. Oven in the Bonhöffer house, Klosterstr. 7 . In: The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 80-81 ( archive.org ).
  6. ↑ Ewald Jeutter: Room decorations from the second third of the 18th century in town houses in the former “Freyen Reichsstadt” Hall. A contribution to the clients and decorators. In: Württembergisch Franken. Yearbook of the Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia. Volume 79, 1995, pp. 243-312, here p, 270-273.

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 43.6 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 18.2"  E