Denkendorfer Pflegehof
The Denkendorfer Pflegehof was a farm yard of the Denkendorf Monastery in Esslingen am Neckar .
history
Traces of settlement can be traced back to the 12th century; Traces of buildings from around 1190/92 are secured by wood, glass and ceramic finds. In the 13th century the area was leveled. Around 1250, the construction of two cellars and a residential tower began. In 1387 there were several buildings on the property at today's Franziskanergasse 3, which were sold by Eberhard Lutram to the monastery of Denkendorf after 1400 and before 1414. During this time it began to be used as a nursing yard , i.e. as an outsourced farm yard for the monastery. Between 1444 and 1499 a building complex with stables, storage rooms and living space was built. Dendrochronological studies of the framework showed that the oaks from which the beams were obtained were felled between the winter of 1442/43 and the winter of 1498/99 and were between 61 and 144 years old.
In the 17th century, Heinrich Schickhardt installed living rooms in the old building.
In 1762 the building in need of renovation was supposed to be demolished, but this request of a chamber council was rejected by court judge Knebel and master builder Gross. Nine years later, the church council builder Wolfgang Goez estimated and approved the renovation costs at 1225 guilders.
The master brewer and city councilor GA Storz bought the building in 1837. In 1848 it became the property of his cousin August. But it wasn't until 1857 that an innkeeper made real capital out of the former care yard: The innkeeper of the Gasthaus zum Schwanen Häberle expanded the building with a two-story dance hall with a stucco ceiling, which later had to be demolished. Until 1891, the former care yard continued to be run as the Gasthaus zum Schwanen, then the Langheck company, the world's oldest transparent film factory, took over the building for 58,000 marks after moving from Göppingen to Esslingen. In 1895, however, the bar in the pub zum Schwanen was approved again. After it had been closed for a long time due to renovation, the inn was reopened in 1987. It now also houses a private brewery.
literature
- Hartmut Schäfer and Uwe Gross, excavations on the property of the Denkendorfer Pflegehof in Esslingen am Neckar , in: Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 1989. Stuttgart 1990, pp. 326–332.
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 28.5 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 36.7" E