St. Vith Inn (Mönchengladbach)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Vith Inn, 2010
St. Vith restaurant (back), 2020

The St. Vith inn at Alten Markt 6 in the Gladbach district of Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) was built in the second half of the 17th century.

architecture

It is a yellow brick building of three storeys on an elongated floor plan with an irregular extension and an apse-like extension. Freestanding on three sides, each with a differently designed facade .

The symmetrically structured main facade is oriented towards the Alter Markt and ends with a curved stepped gable with branches. In addition to a profiled cornice , the windows, arranged in a storey-by-storey sequence, take on the horizontal structure. The window designs differ from storey to storey and are of decreasing size upwards. Like the restaurant entrance cut into the left and framed with a profiled plaster frame, the two rectangular windows flanking the right also close off with an arched arch. The two windows on the first and second floors, which conclude vertically and are "crowned" with a relief arch, are designed as right or small vertical rectangular windows and equipped with wooden shutters . The upper gable field is exposed to two narrow, hatch-like window openings. The corner of the wall facing Rathausstrasse accentuates a niche cranked by the cornice with a replica of the figure of St. Vith , the original of which is in Rheydt Castle . Below the supporting console a cartouche with the coat of arms emblem - St. Andrew's Cross - of Abbot Peter Sieben (1635–1659).

The facade facing the sloping Rathausstrasse shows a three-axis part of the building, which is joined by a bent part of two window axes and the apse-like extension. A simple continuous cornice separates the ground floor from the upper floors. With a symmetrical structure of the first building section, central-axial access with a group of three windows flanking on both sides. Three rectangular windows of the same shape, each with brick relief arches, open the two upper floors in an even row. The wall in between is adorned with four wrought-iron wall anchors . The angled wing of the building, which continues on the ground floor as a (former) toilet facility in elaborate natural stone cladding from 1905 , presents itself in an analogous structure and design, but only illuminated with a group of three windows and two upper floor windows each . The first floor is adjoined by a semicircular extension that is exposed in the middle through a barred arched window. On the second floor there is a protruding, quadruple-broken polygon with four window openings.

The renewed baroque tower spire closes off the apsidal annex above an eaves with a curtain gutter . The two-storey longitudinal front (east facade) facing the main parish church shows a similarly simple structure, but which varies in detail. Asymmetrical opening of the right section of the facade through three deeply drawn down high rectangular windows on the ground floor, which correspond to four uniform windows on the upper floor; As on the main facade, the windows are also fitted with shutters and, as on all window openings of the building - with the exception of the ground floor windows on the opposite front - with natural stone window sills. The already mentioned apse-like extension forms the left end of the building . The surface of the steeply sloping gable roof is broken through to Rathausstrasse by three axially arranged pointed gable dormer windows and two asymmetrically arranged on the church side.

The house was entered under no. A 011 on December 4, 1984 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

See also

Web links

Commons : Gasthaus St. Vith  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 37.8 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 53.5"  E