Fisherman's house
The Fischershaus in Lichtenberg in the Hof district is a listed building from the 16th century.
description
The Fischershaus stands directly outside of the former city center, which was once surrounded by walls and extends around Lichtenberg Castle . It is located on the corner of Nailaer Strasse and Henri-Marteau- Platz.
The floor plan of the house up to the second floor is pentagonal because the southwest corner was bevelled .
On the second floor, a projection turns the shape back into a rectangle. The floor plan in this characteristic form is already recorded on a map of the city, which is dated to "around 1600".
The 400 year old foundation consists of quarry stone walls up to 80 cm thick and a brick cross vault on the ground floor.
The house has a barrel vaulted cellar and a cistern . The walls made of field stones , bricks and clay frameworks were built in different construction phases in terms of time and style.
Monument protection
The Fischershaus contains seven listed building features:
- Slate ornament on the northwest side, was reconstructed around 1970 from the remains of a much older ornament.
- Continuous handcrafted ceiling beams on the first floor. A similar beam on the second floor was not listed in the historical building records because it was covered by cladding from the 1970s.
- Bricked cross vault , probably around 1600.
- Two baroque door frames on the second floor.
- Stone lintel of the old front door with engraving "JZNM 1784". Presumably a reference to the master builder Johann Zacharias Neumeister, who is mentioned in the city archives. The year 1784 is possibly the year the roof was added to the third floor.
- Lying roof truss as a longitudinal mansard roof with a crooked hip and dormers, probably from the late Baroque. Presumably built under the direction of the carpenter Johann Grimm. While almost all older buildings Lichtenberg for Upper Franconia more typical gabled roofs in old-fashioned style wear with or without Walme, the fishing house has a roof in the Thuringian style. It is assumed that the roof structure was erected by a Thuringian master carpenter on the move . The Fischershaus is 3 km from the border between Bavaria and Thuringia.
history
The fisherman's house was probably built as a residential house before 1600, as the floor plan is recorded on a map "around 1600". The purchase of land and the construction of a house must be before 1635, as the city archive burned down in that year and a later construction would be mentioned in the documents from 1635 onwards.
Little is known about the first 300 years of the house. In the city center of Lichtenberg, the northern part of the market square burned down in 1814 and the southern part in 1869, which is why most of the buildings in the old town date from the 19th century. The fisherman's house, which stands outside the market square, escaped both fires and is one of the few remaining buildings from before 1800.
The house served as a tannery until the middle of the 20th century , with the skins being dried in the roof beams. During and after the Second World War , the house was used by many refugee families, including from the Sudetenland and Bohemia and Moravia . From 1956 to 2000 the house was owned by the local entrepreneurial family Rosenberger, who rented it out as a residential building. In the wake of the economic miracle and the increased demand for labor in the local medium-sized companies, guest workers from what was then Yugoslavia came to Lichtenberg. Some of the first guest worker families in the village lived in the fisherman's house from the 1970s, and around the time of the Yugoslav wars, also Kosovar refugees .
Naming
The house name comes from the Fischer family, who lived in the building for a long time until Emma Fischer's death in 1956. In the city archive there are already invoices to a Fischer family from 1660 onwards, although it is not documented whether these were already connected to the Fischershaus.
A descendant of the Fischer family gave the current owners two family heirlooms: a letter of protection that was written for the house and its residents, as well as a camaraderie belonging to the last male fisherman in the area.
The correct spelling and spelling is Fischer s house, with " s " . This is derived from the s-plural form of "the Fischer family", meaning the Fischers and accordingly the Fischer s house as "the Fischer family's house". While a “fisherman's house” would be “the house of a fisherman” or the house of a family who pursued a fisherman's profession .
renovation
It had been mostly empty since the late 1990s, mainly because of the increasingly deteriorating building fabric. When the asphalting of Nailaer Straße, the sidewalk adjacent to the Fischershaus was built very narrow, as the building was expected to be demolished soon. Due to the preservation order, however, the house could neither be easily demolished nor renovated at low cost.
In 2000 the vacant fisherman's house and the adjacent meadow were sold to the Mauer family. It was extensively refurbished and renovated, partially gutted , whereby the essential floor plan of the existing rooms could largely be retained. During the renovation, the most authentic materials possible were used, such as lime paint based on historical recipes or flax to seal the framework. The preservation and visualization of the old building fabric, such as the original layers of paint on some walls and wooden parts, was preserved and emphasized. A disabled access was made possible by a lift. Geothermal energy is used to heat the interior and hot water . The two 125 m deep boreholes are located under the neighboring, newly constructed parking lot. Since the renovations were completed in 2002, the house has been used as a general practitioner's practice .
A baroque epitaph from the 18th century made of Wunsiedler marble found during the construction work is attached to the parking lot. The partly well-preserved inscription attributes the tombstone to Johann Münzer. He was forester in the forest administration of the district, which was then based in Lichtenberg. The local maypole, which was on the property until 2001, has been at the fire station of the volunteer fire department since 2002 .
For the preservation and renovation of the fisherman's house, the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art awarded the new owners the Medal of the Free State of Bavaria for special services to the preservation of monuments in 2003 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wir im Frankenwald ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), No. 40, 2012, Lichtenberg edition, p. 16.
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 59.9 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 32.5" E