Fechenbacher Hof
The Fechenbacher Hof on the Ballplatz in Mainz was completed by 1718. Dietrich von Dalberg acquired the area next to the Elder Dalberger Hof in 1708 and had it remodeled. Before this was the house "Zum Baldemar" (also: Zum Bensheimer, Baltheimer) which, according to the house book from 1450, the Johanniterkommende belonged to the holy grave .
history
The building came to the Counts of Ingelheim by dividing the inheritance and in 1783 to the family of the Barons of Fechenbach , who were based in Laudenbach (Lower Franconia) . This is why the ensemble is sometimes referred to as the Fechenbach-Laudenbacher Hof .
With the auctions after the fall of the Electorate of Mainz , the property came into civil ownership. On the decision of the Episcopal Ordinariate, under Bishop Joseph Vitus Burg, the seat of the episcopal chancellery responsible for the registry was relocated to the ground floor of the former Fechenbacher Hof. In 1875, the Kommerzienrat Carl Theodor Schmitz acquired the Fechenbacher Hof as his residence and used the extensive vaulted cellar for his wine wholesale business. The building burned down in 1945 during an air raid on Mainz . The "Rheinhessische Winzergenossenschaft" had it rebuilt in 1951. The English Misses , now the Congregatio Jesu , bought the building in 1968 to expand the Maria Ward School . The ensemble was supplemented by a north wing with a house Madonna, which is a cast of the Madonna of the "Gudenushof". The original is in the Landesmuseum Mainz . The school management, administration and teachers' room are located in the Fechenbacher Hof.
The oldest part of the two aristocratic palaces Dalberger Hof and Fechenbacher Hof is the only preserved Gothic residential tower in Mainz, which dates from the time when the grounds of the Red House and the Hof zum Baldemer / Bensheimer still extended on the parcels.
architecture
The classical building has three floors. The baroque staircase with basket arch arcades has an arched flight of stairs . The seven-axis front of the square facing the ball court is provided as a secondary facade with a representative balcony with wide wrought-iron bars. The main facade facing the courtyard has twelve window axes. The entrance on this side is flanked by sandstone pilasters . There are extensive cellars under the building.
literature
- Hans Caspary, Peter Karn, Martin Klewitz and others (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, 1984
- Regine Dölling: Mainzer Barockpalais , Cologne 1977
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ House book from 1450
- ↑ On the history of the Mainz Cathedral and Diocesan Archives , accessed on November 1, 2017
- ↑ GL Kayser takes over the J. Neus winery in Ingelheim
- ↑ Information on the tourist information board