Dean's office building (Esslingen)
The deanery building at Rathausplatz 3 and 4 in Esslingen am Neckar is a listed building. It stands right next to the New Town Hall and actually consists of two houses of different ages.
history
The Rathausplatz 4 building possibly dates from 1565; at least for this time it is proven that it was in the possession of the Esslingen families. Among them are the Fleiner and Eckher families, who provided a mayor of Deizisau and several incumbents of the imperial city of Esslingen. In 1803 it became the property of the senior medical officer and botanist Ernst Gottlieb Steudel . The remodeling of the property to its present appearance goes back to this. In 1808 Steudel bought the property to the north and laid out a garden there. In 1812 the upper floor was rebuilt, and in 1829 an annex was built that enabled passage to the courtyard. From there you had access to the ground floor and the two vaulted cellars.
In 1831 the property to the south was bought, on which the so-called Bechtsche Tower was located. Remains of this Becht tower, which probably date from the 13th century, still serve as the cellar of the classicist building that was built in 1831 after the tower was demolished. The house, which today bears the address Rathausplatz 3, was designed as a residential building with an inner courtyard. While the ground floor was partially solidly bricked, the rest of the building was built in half-timbered construction. Outer walls, facade design, storey heights etc. were based on the existing building. This meant that the ground floor of the new building had to be laid out as a mezzanine floor in the direction of Rathausplatz, because the site sloped slightly to the south. Originally a two-flight staircase led up to the central entrance. The balcony above this entrance has been preserved, while the external staircase no longer exists today. The interior of the two houses was also united. It was given a central, open staircase.
From 1869, the building complex was used as a city parsonage, which contained both residential and office rooms. At the beginning of the 20th century, the architect Hermann Falch made redesigns. The main entrance of the house was relocated to the west and a new staircase was installed, and the first attic floor of house No. 4 was expanded. However, Falch did little to change the old floor plan structure. Equipment such as the old doors, the stucco and the paneling of the house were also preserved.
From 1953 the city of Esslingen am Neckar used the building as an administration building. In the 1970s, the garden and courtyard on the north side of the house fell victim to the construction of a ring road and the small market, a bus stop with an underpass and shops.
A facade renovation on the part of the house with the address Rathausplatz 3 was completed in 2010. In the style of the construction period, the mezzanine floor was painted pale green, the two upper floors in a tone that fluctuates between pale ocher and orange, and the mezzanine lilac gray. The panels that structure the mezzanine were made light gray. After completion of the total renovation, which cost around 3.95 million euros, and the barrier-free development, the building is to be used by the city administration from 2011 as it was before.
literature
Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 241 f. with ill. 642 (still in the color scheme before the renovation)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.esslinger-zeitung.de/lokal/esslingen/esslingen/Artikel497504.cfm
- ↑ http://presse.esslingen.de/ekomm/presse/paweb.nsf/0aa9d75a8af56ea0c1256bc400461926/e10b31f2d1a7ba2ac12577ca004e3800?OpenDocument
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 34.6 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 27.8" E