Gasthaus zum Hirsch (Memmingen)
The Gasthaus zum Hirsch (also known as the Golden Hirsch ) is a listed former inn in Memmingen in Upper Swabia in Bavaria . It is on the south side of the market square.
history
Earlier development
The building site belongs to the nucleus of the old Guelph city of Memmingen. It was probably built since the early Middle Ages, but no later than the early High Middle Ages . This is evidenced by the preserved tuff stone wall inside the house, faced with bricks. The earliest mention is in the memorial book of the imperial city of Memmingen for the years 1397 ff. In the city archive. A Haintzel and his stepchild vo hultzin hus are mentioned there for the year 1406 . He had to pay a penny in interest on his house in town. Further interest entries follow in later years, mostly for highly respected personalities in the imperial city. On the Tuesday after All Saints' Day in 1488, Christoph the Strong stayed at the inn, and in 1492 two Landgraves of Hesse took quarters there. From 1499 a dye works was temporarily housed in the building. Ownership changed frequently until 1589. The house also belonged to the pharmacist Dr. Ivo Strigel, the son of the artist Ivo Strigel . Like many pharmacists in the 16th century, he had beds set up in the inn for the care of the sick. So it was a kind of hospital at the time. Walter Eysenberger acquired the house in 1521. He belonged to the big guild and had immigrated from Nuremberg in the wake of Emperor Maximilian I.
Construction history of the current building stock
The current house was built as an inn in 1589 by order of the city, and it was owned until 1634. It has been privately owned since then.
After the city was occupied by the imperial troops in the Thirty Years' War after a long siege, the Croat general Isolani stayed in the inn in January 1633 . As the only member of the city government, the landlord was not deported to Tyrol, but was allowed to stay in the city.
The negotiations with a negotiator of Napoleon on October 14, 1805 were also conducted in the inn. The negotiator was shown blindfolded to the inn in order to keep the place of residence of the Austrian commandant Count Spangen secret.
A short time later, in 1826, the landlord Gabriel Häberle got into financial hardship due to over-indebtedness, whereupon the inn, which at that time consisted of the dining room, a dance floor, several heated and non-heated guest and servant rooms as well as a spacious courtyard with running water and stables for 24 horses , should be auctioned. The value was estimated at 5500 guilders. However, this estimated price was not reached on several auction dates. The landlord Häberle was able to agree otherwise with the donors and handed the inn to his son.
In 1831 the brewer Rist, who had come into possession of the inn through marriage, had it auctioned along with the stables and furnishings. The new owner was the owner of the Zum Weißen Schwanen brewery in the adjacent Ulmer Strasse. This transferred the wine industry justice resting on the property to his inn on Ulmer Strasse. In return, the brewing and drinking justice was transferred to the Golden Deer. When the property was auctioned again in 1846, it came into the possession of Nicolaus Textor. Bankruptcy proceedings were opened against him in 1851 and he then emigrated to North America in 1854. After another auction, the house came into the possession of the beer brewer Xaver Leonhard from Pfaffenhausen . From March 1852 to December 1854 he brewed 49 Schäffel malts for white beer, 136 Schäffel for brown summer beer and 56 Schäffel for brown winter beer.
His successor Joseph Leonhard fell victim to a crime on August 27, 1889. Then his three sisters took over the business. They gave up the brewery, had the brewery building demolished and built a house there. It should be the building behind the inn. After that the owners and tenants changed frequently. From 1913 to 1919, in addition to the bar, a butcher's shop was also operated in the building. Master builder Unglehrt converted the inn in 1911.
Cessation of the restaurant business and current use
In May 1919 the premises were bought by a butcher and a master brewer. However, the city refused the restaurant license application, whereupon operations were discontinued that same month. The Emil Bäßler company then bought the house. He set up a shop and storage rooms in the guest rooms. The former guest rooms were converted into apartments.
The house kept the name "Zum Hirsch", the so-called real law was transferred to the Fugger-Booser-Haus . Today there is a toy shop on the ground floor, the upper floors house living and office space.
Building description
The three-storey gabled house has five axes. The basement was changed by adding shop fittings, while the remaining parts of the house were essentially built in the 16th century. The two-storey gable has been structured by pilasters and blind arches since 1586. The old vibrations on the sloping gable date from the second half of the 18th century. On the west side of the house there is a brick-clad high medieval tuff stone wall. The ground floor is structured as a two-aisled hall. It has three yokes with groin vaults, which are supported on round pillars. The shape of the hall has been divided by modern partition walls.
literature
- Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Bavarian art monuments. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 46 .
- Lars Dietsch: Zum Goldenen Hirsch - On the history of an old Memmingen inn on the market square. Spiegelschwab, local supplement of the Memminger Zeitung , year 2009, No. 3, page 11.
- Wolfram Arlart: The Gasthaus zum Goldenen Hirsch - an addendum to the early history of the Memminger Gasthaus on the market square. Spiegelschwab, local supplement of the Memminger Zeitung , year 2010, No. 2, page 2.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfram Arlart: The Gasthaus zum Goldenen Hirsch - an addendum to the early history of the Memminger Gasthaus on the market square. Spiegelschwab, local supplement of the Memminger Zeitung , year 2010, No. 2, page 2
- ↑ Philip L. Kinter: The history of the city of Memmingen - From the beginnings to the end of the imperial city. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8062-1315-1 , page 535
- ^ Julius Miedel, Guide through Memmingen and the surrounding area, Part One, Memmingen 1929, page 108
- ↑ Lars Dietsch: Zum Goldenen Hirsch - On the history of an old Memminger inn on the market square. Spiegelschwab, local supplement of the Memminger Zeitung , year 2009, No. 3, page 11.
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 10.1 ″ N , 10 ° 10 ′ 52.1 ″ E