Forsthaus Jägerthal

Forsthaus Jägerthal
The forester's house (east side)
Data
place	Bad Dürkheim
architect	Johann Bernhard Spatz
Builder	Royal Bavarian Forest Administration
Architectural style	Baroque single-storey hipped roof building
Construction year	18th and 19th centuries
Coordinates	49 ° 27 '7 "  N , 8 ° 3' 20.5"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '7 "  N , 8 ° 3' 20.5"  E

The Jägerthal forester's house is the listed complex of a former forester's house in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Bad Dürkheim .

location

The forester's house is located west of the town of Bad Dürkheim on the B 37 in Jägerthal , west of the Hardenburg district . Nearby, a path branches off to the Dreibrunnental, where the trift systems have been placed under monument protection.

history

After 1779 a hunting lodge for the Counts of Leiningen was built in the Jägerthal . In 1785 August Wilhelm Iffland (1759–1814) performed his well-known piece “Die Jäger” there. This drama is a rural moral painting in five acts. The summer residence was destroyed in 1794 by the French in the course of the Revolutionary Wars .

Around 1825 the forester's house was built on this site as the official seat of a district forester in the Palatinate Forest by the government master builder Johann Bernhard Spatz . In the adjoining buildings, a sound facility for drying seeds was set up. The forester's house is also mentioned in the works of the historian Johann Georg Lehmann . In 1834, the previous forester Karl Kummerer was graciously appointed provisional forester in the Jägerthal forest district, Dürkheim forest district. Kummerer and his colleague Karl Nahm from the neighboring district built the Kummererbrunnen at the foot of the Drachenfels . The fountain trough is marked with the initials "KK KN".

The property was renovated for residential purposes in the 1980s and listed as a historical monument in 1987. Today it houses the restaurant Sieben Raben . The license from 1770 was reactivated by the owners in 1996.

description

The late baroque cellar dates from the time of the hunting lodge. The former forester's house is a single-storey building with a half- hip roof . Erected around 1825, its core is also baroque. There is a fountain in the front yard. The listed complex includes two utility buildings and the garden wall. Spolia are walled into the buildings .

There is a former sentry box at the entrance to the courtyard. This is a small circular dome from around 1770.

literature

• Georg Peter Karn, Rolf Mertzenich: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Bad Dürkheim, municipality of Haßloch, municipalities of Deidesheim, Lambrecht, Wachenheim (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-119-X .
• General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (publisher): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 9 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
• Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the “Zum Jägerthal” inn. Bad Dürkheim 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official and intelligence gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District . Speyer 1835, p. 177.
2. ↑ The term "fountain of grief" is wrong; see. The Palatinate on the Rhine . Volumes 44-45 (1971), p. 129.