Ebracher Hof (Schweinfurt)
The Ebracher Hof in Schweinfurt is a former cloister courtyard of the Ebrach Cistercian Abbey . It was used to store the income from the monastery's own agricultural possessions in the Schweinfurt area. It was founded in the 15th century and is a protected architectural monument . Today it houses the city library and a small hotel with a restaurant.
location
The Ebracher Hof is located in the old town of Schweinfurt , in the historical district of Zurich , not far from the Main and the Georg Schäfer Museum . The courtyard extends between Rittergasse and Paul-Rummert-Ring.
history
The monastery received possessions in Schweinfurt for the first time in 1431. In order to better manage the surrounding possessions, the monks then had an official residence built in the city. This 15th century court was the meeting point of Abbot Johannes II. Leiterbach when he was followed by the Würzburg prince-bishop in 1521 on his way back from the Worms Reichstag . Here, in the Free Imperial City of Schweinfurt, he was safe.
During the Second Margrave War ( Second City Disaster ), the Ebracher Hof burned down to the outer walls in 1554. In the subsequent reconstruction in 1578, the current building was built as a three-wing complex under Abbot Leonhard Rosen . During the Thirty Years' War the city was occupied by the Swedes and the Protestant Schweinfurters succeeded in taking possession of the Catholic monastery courtyard. They had accused Abbot Johannes V. Dressel of treason.
After the war, the building was returned to the monastery. In 1698, construction work on the building has been handed down. Now the image of the courtyard has not changed over the centuries, only the most necessary damage has been repaired. After the secularization , the farm, like the rest of the monastery property, was sold. Since the Schweinfurt Hospital Foundation had to vacate its traditional hospital, it received u. a. the Ebracher Hof, which served her as a hospital until 1846 . In 1812 45 people were accommodated in the Ebracher Hof.
The city of Schweinfurt wanted to accommodate the large collection of paintings by the industrialist Georg Schäfer , including world-famous paintings by Carl Spitzweg , in the Ebracher Hof. In the early 1990s, the architect Alexander von Branca (Munich) emerged as the winner of an architectural competition. However, the design was not implemented. The museum was built opposite the Ebracher Hof (see Museum Georg Schäfer, History of the Museum ). In 2004, the conversion of the Ebracher Hof into a public library and a hotel began (see current use ).
The Ebracher Hof is now classified as an architectural monument .
description
The courtyard presents itself as a three-wing complex from the years 1565 to 1575 and consists of a residential building, an economic building and a storage building.
The front building on Rittergasse is an eaves-sided residential building with a stepped gable and two storeys. The upper floor was designed to protrude. A gate with a round arch leads into the inner courtyard. At the rear of the courtyard is the storage building, also known as the tithe barn , a stone masonry building, also with a stepped gable and saddle roof . It was also built in the 16th century and consists of two full floors and three attic floors.
The two-storey utility building was erected in 1698, a baroque side wing along the west side of the courtyard, as a connection between the front building and the storage building.
Todays use
The Ebracher Hof was extensively renovated and expanded in 2004–2007, based on designs by the architects' office Bruno Fioretti Marquez (Berlin). Since then, the small Hotel Ebrachere Hof with a restaurant and a picture exhibition has been housed in the residential wing, the front building on Rittergasse . The storage building was converted into the city library, with a new basement under a small piazza with skylights . The piazza is bordered by the so-called lantern , another 33 m long skylight for the city library. The lantern follows the course of the city wall that is no longer preserved in this area. The library administration is located in the economic building
- "Josè Marquez approached the historic building with respect and at the same time opposed it with self-confident modern elements [...] Best example: the eight room-dividing shelves in the entrance area ... Marquez calls them Magic Boxes , he designed them after a visit to New York, where sculptures by the sculptor Richard Serra inspired him. They are black, like the polished tar floor, reminiscent of terrazzo floors . The old half-timbering and the walls are kept in white. [...] The first floor is the home of fiction with the literary cabinet in the former chapel, reminiscent of a Gothic tracery window . Each department has its own reading corner, for which Marquez designed simple tables with elegant reading lamps. [...] The most exciting room from an architectural point of view is the basement, the non-fiction department: two trapezoidal surfaces around a mighty quarry stone wall . Daylight comes from three sources, which also have an essential design function: the [...] glass bar, skylights on the forecourt that guide visitors to the main entrance and the third element is the glass wall at the east end of the room behind the quarry stone wall hides the exposed vaulted cellar, today an event room [...] for readings with well-known authors [...] Roger Willemsen and Hellmuth Karasek were already there. "
In 2008, the Ebracher Hof was named one of the 24 best buildings in Germany by the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main .
Ensemble with neighboring buildings
The city library forms a building ensemble with the main customs office . The latter was also designed by the architects Bruno Fioretti Marquez. The ensemble was awarded the Theodor Fischer Prize in 2007 . The 18 large windows of the main customs office were arranged in such a way that the stepped gable of the Ebracher Hof is reflected in their windows: "which can definitely be understood as a metaphor for the relationship between the two buildings."
In addition, this ensemble, together with the Georg Schäfer Museum (2000) and the Bavarian State Social Court (2000), forms an even larger building ensemble on both sides of Brückenstraße, which , coming from the Main , forms an entrance gate into the old town (see Schweinfurt, Secular Buildings , Entrée Maxbrücke).
See also
- Zurich
- Apostle House
- Metzgergasse 16 courtyard
- Armory
- Old town (Schweinfurt)
- List of architectural monuments in Schweinfurt
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia . Munich and Berlin 1999.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Schweinfurt-city map-sights-history. Tourist Information Schweinfurt 2009
- ↑ mainpost.de: History of a Foundation: Bought Salvation, November 25, 2013. Retrieved on August 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Dehio, Georg: Handbook of German Art Monuments . P. 966.
- ↑ Schweinfurt Guide by Peter Hofmann , accessed on August 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e Schweinfurt City | Culture | Topics. Special edition of the Schweinfurter Tagblatt for the Handelsblatt and DIE ZEIT: Das Schönste Entrée , p. 3, May 20, 2009
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 40 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 11.5" E