Grandpierre printing house
Haus Obergasse 16 , also known as Druckerei Grandpierre or Haus Grandpierre , is a half-timbered house in Obergasse in Idstein . As a cultural monument, it is under monument protection. To this day it is owned by the Grandpierre family, which gives it its name.
history
According to an inscription on a portal in the courtyard, the building was originally built in 1612 as an aristocratic court. The builder was possibly the Countess Nassau official Niclas Hien († 1631). Later the house fell into disrepair and Count Johann let the property move in. His son Georg August exchanged the property with the clerk Johan Dietrich Müller and received his tavern "Zu den Zwei Böcken" on the market square.
The building had an economic equity and tax exemption. It was used as an inn in the 17th century under the name "Zur Weißen Taube". 1632 is proven as the landlord Ludwig Pfeiffer, who ran the inn as a tenant.
In 1721, the Nassau forest master Georg Heinrich Freiherr von Hayn acquired the property. His son sold it in 1770 to the chief hunter Johan Carl Friedrich Schott von Schottenstein. The purchase price for the property and other rights was 4,000 guilders. With a certificate dated May 16, 1786, the Fürstlich-Nassauische Oberforstmeister Friedrich August von Hayn acquired the building for 4,500 guilders. In November 1786 he transferred the house to Prince Karl Wilhelm von Nassau-Usingen .
In 1818 the prescription apartment for the Idstein office was set up in the house . But already in the following year the recipe officer Graeser was informed that he had to move into a new apartment in the castle. This was 50 steps up and was accordingly uncomfortable. Graeser delayed the move until 1821, but then had to move.
The Nassau Institute for Agriculture, headed by Professor Wilhelm Albrecht, was located in the building. Albrecht had set up an agricultural school in Idstein in 1818 . An animal hospital in Herrenspeicher and an experimental farm , the Hofgut Gassenbach , belonged to the Institute for Agriculture .
In December 1834 the institute was moved to Wiesbaden and the house at Obergasse 16 became a prescription apartment for the prescription officer Rat Schmidt.
After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, the recipes have been lifted. From 1886 the house was the business premises of the Idstein sub-tax district. The Rendant Krah, like his successors Maßfeller, Neuber and Ludwig, lived on the upper floor with their families.
In 1898 the printer Georg Grandpierre bought the house for 12,500 marks and founded the Idsteiner Zeitung there . Commemorative plaques still remember this today. Since then the estate has been owned by the Grandpierre family.
Building description
The current building is an elongated building with a massive ground floor from the 17th century. The upper floor in half-timbered construction with a mansard roof and two square corner structures with mansard tent roofs dates from the 18th century. Three round relief medallions (Drucker, Greif, Gutenberg) from 1926 by Ferdinand Abt are embedded in the masonry . The upper floor is divided into 18 window axes with nested fire brackets.
The entrance is formed by a large arched portal with ashlar and rosettes. The inscription reads "Buchdruckerei Buchbinderei". The keystone shows a picture of Gutenberg by Ferdinand Abt. The wooden gate with two-winged arched gate and fittings is original. In the courtyard is the sandstone portal with bar walls and the date 1612. In the house there is a baroque spiral staircase with a rotated spindle.
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Printing works Grandpierre In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- Christel Lentz: The house at Obergasse 16 in Idstein; in: Yearbook 2001 Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, ISSN 1439-0779 , pp. 85–90
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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 13.4 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 14.8 ″ E