Bummerlhaus
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The Bummerlhaus is a Gothic town house in Steyr ( Stadtplatz 32), the core of which probably dates from the 13th century .
The first documentary mention, however, is not found until 1450. The name of the building itself can probably be traced back to the sign of the former inn at the golden lion . The citizens of Steyr mocked the lion depicted there (somewhat awkwardly) as a bummerl (little dog).
historical overview
The owners of the art-historically significant town house can be traced back to the 15th century. The latest state of research dates the building history to the 13th century. Around 1450 Mert Pandorffer is the owner, who worked from 1432 to 1450 as a castner and rent master of the Steyr manor. He was followed by his son Wolfgang Pandorffer in 1456, who sold it to the rich merchant Georg Prandtstetter for 1000 guilders in 1473 . Valentin Preuenhueber already mentions a chapel in the house in his history work Annales Styrenses . Georg Prandstetter probably changed the house in the way it is today in its basic form. In 1490 Hanns Prandtstetter inherited the patrician house. The year 1497 on the facade suggests that the design of the front building was commissioned by Hans Prandtstetter. Hanns Prandtstetter, who held the mayor's office of Steyr in 1521, died in 1521. His son, Hanns Prandtstetter took over the property. In 1543 "Prandtstetters heirs" were given as the owner. In the years 1567 and 1596, Wolf Händl von Ramingdorf, long-time mayor of Steyr, appears in the tax books as the owner. In 1651 Stefan Grafhaider bought the "dilapidated house". He was one of the wealthiest people in town. He was a baker, innkeeper, owner of the salt chamber, a brewery and a musket tube forge. In 1687 the heirs to Grafhaider sold the property to Daniel Edtinger, who owned the building until 1748. Until the Thirty Years War, influential councilors and merchants who mainly traded in iron and steel, but also in grain and goods from Venice, owned the house. From the second half of the 17th century, the wine trade and remained Leutgebschaft . Until 1898 the house housed an inn ("Zum golden Löwen"), until 1964 an iron trade was housed in the house. In 1964, the Volkskreditbank acquired the so-called Bummerlhaus and carried out a massive renovation, in which a ticket hall was installed on the ground floor of the front building. In 1994 the attic extension was dismantled. Instead of small archive rooms, a spacious office unit was created in which the static and formal construction principle of the roof structure can be recognized. In the spring of 2000 the facade facing the town square received an urgently needed stone restoration and the gable wall was renovated.
Building description
The Bummerlhaus is the best preserved late Gothic town house in Steyr and is one of the most beautiful medieval secular buildings in Austria. The house shows the basic concept typical of Steyr, consisting of the front building with a richly furnished facade facing the town square, the rear building and three courtyards with arcades. The roof shape common in the Middle Ages, a steep roof with a crooked hip facing the town square, dominates the architecture of the house. At the core is a square tower that reminds one of a medieval residential tower and around which the rest of the house is formed. The facade facing the town square shows a cantilevered stone-carved bay window on the first floor that spans the entire length of the house. This is adorned by blind arcades and a rich frieze with four-pass tracery that lies under the five asymmetrically arranged windows. Above the narrow roof of the wide bay, the brick gable wall rises up with brick arcades and a steep hip with an elevator hatch. Axially aligned, the gable wall is dominated by a biforic late Gothic window with finely crafted stone pillars and arches.
Furnishing
The house chapel integrated in the house is a showpiece of Gothic secular architecture. It is located on the upper floor and receives light from four narrow late Gothic windows. The altarpiece, Ascension of Christ, by the painter Martin Johann Schmidt (" Kremser Schmidt ") adorns the interior. The profiled door frames, decorated with five three-pass motifs, are also one of the rich features of the house. On the first floor of the front building, richly structured wooden ceilings indicate the wealth of the builder. On the south-west side of the third courtyard, a partly free-standing late Gothic spiral staircase connects the building with the elevated garden and enables access to the Berggasse.
admission
- On the occasion of the 500th anniversary, a 50 Schilling coin appeared from June 4, 1973 .
- Veronika Handlgruber wrote the ode to the Bummerlhaus in Steyr . In the last stanza it says: Middle Ages and modern times are harmoniously married in you, / magnificent seat of rich merchants from times long gone. / Today a modern bank, now again dedicated to trade, / clearly and purposefully designed, and yet the Gothic style has remained / a precious gem, an inalienable treasure of our old, / widely vaunted, much-loved Eisenstadt Steyr.
Urban classification
Most of the most beautiful residential buildings in the city of Steyr are on the town square, in the Enge, in Kirchen- and Gleinkergasse. More modest, but also based on the Steyr type, can be found on Grünmarkt, Haratzmüllerstrasse, Pfarrstrasse, Bergstrasse, Badgasse and Sierningerstrasse. Most of the residential buildings in the old parts of the city (city center, Steyrdorf, Ennsdorf and Ort) date from the late Gothic period in the main walls and to a large extent in their overall structure. There are only a few changes to the facades, most of which were carried out when properties were merged. The outer contours and the interior layout have largely been preserved.
literature
- Manfred Brandl: New history of Steyr - from Biedermeier to today , Steyr 1980
- Julia Droste-Hennings: Upper Austria - art and culture on the Danube and Inn, in the Mühlviertel and around the lakes of the * Salzkammergut ; DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1998
- Erwin Hainisch : Dehio - Handbook: Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs, Upper Austria , Verlag Anton Schroll Vienna, 1977
- Gernot Krenner: Das Bummerlhaus in Steyr , self-published by Oberösterreichische Volkskreditbank, Linz 1973
- Josef Ofner : The Eisenstadt Steyr , Steyr 1956
- Valentin Preuenhueber: Annales Styrenses , Nuremberg 1740, reprint Steyr 1983
- C. Neudeck: Description of the building history of the Bummerlhaus
- F. Berndt: The Bummerlhaus in Steyr
- K. Mayer-Freinberg: From the old "Bummerlhaus" in Steyr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Consolidated federal law: Entire legal regulation for 50 S - 500 years of Bummerlhaus in Steyr, version of February 22, 2014
- ↑ Veronika Handlgruber-Rothmayer: Ode to the Steyrer Bummerlhaus in: A thousand years of Steyr. Festschrift on the occasion of the city anniversary, published by the association “Thousand Years of Steyr”. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Gutenberg, Linz 1980, p. 18.
Web links
- Article in the OÖN series “Treasure Chest” on the Bummerlhaus ( memento from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) from April 11, 2006
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 20.1 ″ N , 14 ° 25 ′ 7.3 ″ E