Fugger houses
The Fugger houses in Augsburger Maximilianstraße were built between 1512 and 1515 as the residence of the Fugger family . The secular building is the first building north of the Alps to be built in the style of the Italian Renaissance .
construction
The outer façade, one of the longest in the street, testified to the wealth of the Fuggers, as at that time the building tax was calculated according to the length of the front façade. Through a high and wide gate - the Adlertor - one could also enter the complex with larger horse-drawn carts and drive out again through the gate in the rear inner courtyard, the equestrian center . Memorial plaques on the house facade remind that the Fugger company empire had its headquarters here and that in 1518 the reformer Martin Luther was interrogated by Cardinal Cajetan in the Fugger houses . In the middle of the facade you will find the Adlertor , which indicates that the Fugger houses were imperial quarters.
On its north side you will find the white bay window, behind which the state rooms of Emperor Charles V were. In the sales rooms you can see the adjacent women's courtyard . A Fugger coat of arms adorns the rear portal of these Fugger houses on Zeugplatz. The former Fugger concert hall, in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave a legendary concert in 1777 , was probably located in this area .
The Damenhof , with its arcades supported by Tuscan columns and magnificently painted arches, is the most important and is considered one of the most beautiful courtyards in Germany. It was the garden for the female members of the Fugger family. The Damenhof can be reached via the so-called small Zofenhof . The third courtyard is called the Serenadenhof , the rear riding stable .
history
From 1512 to 1515, Jakob Fugger the Rich had two houses next to each other, a city residence and a warehouse, built next to the then wine market on the then important trade route Via Claudia (today's Maximilianstraße ). He designed the complex himself from plans that he had noted on his trip to Italy. The builder was probably Hans Hieber. Further adjoining houses were acquired from 1517 and integrated into the complex of this city palace. Jakob Fugger had four inner courtyards built inside the complex with arcades, mosaics, Tuscan marble and water basins. Under Anton Fugger (1493–1560) a palatium was built for Emperor Charles V, which later served as a hostel for later emperors at the Reichstag.
The front of the Fugger houses was initially painted by Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531). From 1861 to 1863 it was repainted with five large frescoes from the history of Augsburg by the Schwabmünchner painter Ferdinand Wagner on behalf of Leopold Prince Fugger-Babenhausen . As the colors soon faded, it was refreshed during the First World War.
The Augsburg Fugger Museum was housed in the baths of the Fugger houses until 1944. The building suffered severe damage on the night of bombing in Augsburg from February 25th to 26th, 1944. Most of the interior furnishings and a valuable musical collection were burned. After the destruction, the building was rebuilt by Carl Fürst Fugger-Babenhausen from 1949 to 1951. The architect was Raimund von Doblhoff . The outer facade has now been given a simple panel painting. From 1951 onwards, the Fuggers were able to repair all damage caused by the war.
present
The Fuggerhaus complex is now owned by the Fugger-Babenhausen family. With the exception of the three inner courtyards, the Fugger houses are not open to the public. The Damenhof and the Serenadenhof can be visited . The three-aisled ground floor hall with groined vaults north of the Adlertor, where the rooms of a bookshop are now, is also open to the public. Today the Adlertor is the main entrance to the Fürst Fugger Privatbank .
literature
- Norbert Lieb: The Fugger and Art in the Age of the High Renaissance , 1958, pp. 158–196
Web links
- Chronicle column. The Fugger Museum in Augsburg. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 21409/1924, April 17, 1924, p. 4, below. (Online at ANNO ). .
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 57 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 56 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sigrid-Maria Großering: Love, cunning and passion: New stories from history . Amalthea Signum Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-902998-90-3 ( google.de [accessed April 22, 2019]).
- ↑ Gunter Pirntke: Capitalism and its social inequality: A textbook of political economy . andersseiten.de, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95501-707-1 ( google.de [accessed April 22, 2019]).
- ^ Description of the fresco paintings at the Fuggerhaus in Augsburg . Jenisch, 1867 ( google.de [accessed April 22, 2019]).
- ↑ Werner Lutz: Augsburg's way to the modern city 1907-72 . Architekturmuseum Schwaben, 2001, ISBN 978-3-9807563-1-0 ( google.de [accessed April 22, 2019]).