Fruit box (Stuttgart)
The so-called fruit box , a late Gothic stone building on Schillerplatz , is one of the oldest preserved buildings in Stuttgart . Nowadays the house is used as part of the museum of the Württemberg State Museum as a house of music in a fruit box .
History of the house
The fruit box was first mentioned in a document in 1393 as the “large manorial wine press behind the collegiate churchyard”. Later the wine press was used as a fruit box (granary). 1596 built Heinrich Schickhardt commissioned by Duke Friedrich I the palace and office space . As part of these measures, five meters of the fruit box were removed and today's renaissance facade was built. The fruit box burned down in 1944/45; when it was rebuilt in the 1950s, the back of the fruit box was torn down to create a boiler room.
The building is a protected cultural monument, see list of cultural monuments in Stuttgart-Mitte .
Modern use
Today - as of 2016 - there is not only the musical instrument collection of the State Museum Württemberg in the fruit box, it has developed into a sub-museum of the State Museum. It is now called the House of Music , more precisely 'House of Music in the Fruit Box'.
It should also be a meeting point for music lovers. The Landesmuseum Württemberg not only shows outstanding pieces from its extensive collection of historical musical instruments, but also lets them sound in a concert hall on the ground floor. The particularly valuable keyboard instruments from the 17th to early 20th centuries are regularly played at concerts.
source
- Harald Schukraft : Stuttgart street history (s) . Silberburg-Verlag , ISBN 3-925344-05-5
Web links
- City of Stuttgart: fruit box
- Flyer musical instrument collection , PDF, accessed on July 23, 2014
- Julia Bischoff: Fruchtkasten, published on April 19, 2018 in: Stadtarchiv Stuttgart, Stadtlexikon Stuttgart
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 37.1 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 40.6 ″ E