Former knight school (Thundorf in Lower Franconia)

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Former knight school from Thundorf in Lower Franconia

The former knight school of the Bavarian community Thundorf in Lower Franconia in the Bad Kissingen district is located at the current address Am Kirchberg 2; At the knight school 2; At the knight school 4 in Thundorf in Lower Franconia. The property belongs to the Thundorf architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian monument list under the number D-6-72-157-41 .

Building description

The property is an elongated saddle roof building made of sandstone over a barrel vaulted cellar. The property has half-timbered and in the western part of masonry or quarry stone masonry . Behind the western stone masonry there is a second half-timbered wall, so that the stone wall was probably built as weather protection.

The property has been built several times over the years. It is not known when it originated in its current form, but the existing framework points to the period around 1800. The last major renovation of the property took place in 1922. At that time there was a half-timbered extension for the building part An der Ritterschule 2 at the location of the 6 meter protruding cellar corridor with a flat saddle roof ; however, this extension had to be demolished due to its dilapidation.

Hollow pans are installed over the entire area on the roof of the property . On one side of the roof (the "Kirchberg" faces) are five, on the road side three drag dormers .

A cellar is located under the property over the entire length of the building complex. This consists of two smaller and one larger cellar vaults, which presumably date from the time when the property belonged to the Schaumberg family. During the Second World War it was planned to use the large vault of the cellar as an air raid shelter; allegedly, the construction of a connecting passage between the large vault and a neighboring building began.

history

The former knight school, located right next to today's Protestant church , was donated in 1528 by Silvester von Schaumberg , bailiff of Münnerstadt . Researcher F. Kipp doubts that the year 1520 stated in the parish register, since schools were only founded after the Reformation to spread Protestant doctrine , after Martin Luther's book To the councilors of all German cities that they should establish and maintain Christian schools had appeared .

In this function it was also referred to as a study school, aristocratic school or aristocratic grammar school. School operations dissolved in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . In 1676 the property of the Schaumberg family passed to the Rosenberg family ; from then on the knight school was no longer mentioned.

Since the street was renamed in 1974, the property consists of the following addresses:

  • Am Kirchberg 2 (previously: No. 61).
  • At the knight school 2 (previously: No. 63). This part of the property was initially used as a bailiwick (until 1680) after the knight school was closed. The Protestant rectory was housed here from 1680 to 1847. When it was used as a parsonage, the building was connected to the church via a short path; In the quarry stone masonry of the facade of the former rectory, the sandstone walls of the door and windows, which have now been walled up, can still be seen. The three still preserved late Gothic keel arched windows with profiled walls and flat volute-like decorations on the gable side suggest that the gable side of the house dates from the time of the knight's school.
  • At knight school 4 (previously: No. 61c). This part of the property became the property of the Free State of Bavaria after the owner died and her bereaved relatives turned down the inheritance because the property was in disrepair.

The building sections Am Kirchberg 2 and An der Ritterschule 4 form the rear part of the property. In this combination they were inhabited by Jews until 1688; a Catholic school was established here that year. After the construction of a new school building in 1691, apartments for Jewish families were again furnished here. They were bought by the Jewish community in 1811 (the current part of the building at An der Ritterschule 2 was bought in 1848 ). A synagogue was temporarily set up in today's part of the building at Am Kirchberg 2 . The last Jews left the place around 1880.The parts of the building are now used as residential buildings.

literature

  • Rainer Schüler: The architectural and field monuments of the Thundorf community in the districts of Thundorf, Theinfeld and Rothhausen. 1981, pp. 59-63.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ S. Zeißner: history of the reign Thundorf. Hofheim 1925, repr. Thundorf, 1979, p. 48.
  2. ^ F, Kipp: New Year's Eve von Schaumberg , the friend of Luther. Leipzig 1911, p. 189.
  3. ↑ a b S. Zeißner: History of the rule Thundorf. Hofheim 1925, repr. Thundorf, 1979, pp. 48-50.
  4. ↑ parish register of Thundorf, 1865 with many old documents , archives of the Evangelical-Luther. Parish office Thundorf i. U., No. 37, p. 21.
  5. ↑ S. Zeißner: history of the reign Thundorf. Hofheim 1925, repr. Thundorf, 1979, p. 50.

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 0.11 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 12.11 ″  E