Gray House (Oestrich-Winkel)
The Graue Haus at Graugasse 10 is a Romanesque house in Winkel in the Rheingau . The building, which is now surrounded by vineyards, is located south of the village and has been separated from the banks of the Rhine by Bundesstraße 42 since the 1950s . It is one of the oldest Romanesque secular buildings in Germany.
history
When exactly the gray house was built can only be inferred from circumstantial evidence that allows some leeway. After a fire in 1964, oak wood samples were taken from door and window supports and dendrochronologically examined in Trier and Munich . The annual rings of two window supports from the upper floor both end with the year 1054, whereby for statistical reasons it is assumed that 21 annual rings fell victim to the fire. The year 1075 would be the probable year of precipitation. It would be possible, however, that the timbers were taken over from older buildings, and that the timbers are younger than the building and were installed later, as well as the timbers of the barn and the roof of the residential building that were from the year of felling 1665, which was proven by the existing forest edges of the examined woods. In addition, spolia from the 9th-11th centuries were built. Century used, which could come from the imperial palace in Ingelheim .
Older theories, according to which the building in its entirety can be attributed to the 9th century and served as the residence and death house of the archbishop and scholar Rhabanus Maurus , are controversial. The opinion is also expressed that the Graue Haus was created as the family seat of the Greiffenclau family , whose family tree can be traced back to 1097 . It served her as a residence until 1330, then as a house for employees of Schloss Vollrads .
Over the centuries the building remained almost unchanged, only in the 17th century was an outbuilding in front of the south side. After a fire on January 23, 1964, the former owner Erwein Graf Matuschka-Greiffenclau restored the old house in 1966/67 with the help of the State of Hesse , the Rheingau-Taunus district and the Winkel municipality.
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literature
- Folkhard Cremer (edit.): Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 835 a. 836.
- Anita Wiedenau: Catalog of the Romanesque residential buildings in West German cities and settlements (without Goslar and Regensburg). (The German community center, 34). Tübingen 1983, pp. 290-294.
- Fritz Arens : "DATING THE GRAY HOUSE TO ANGLE BY ANNUAL RING CHRONOLOGY OF OAK." Mainzer Zeitschrift, Mittelrheinisches Jahrbuch für Archeologie, Kunst und Geschichte, p. 109, Verlag des Mainzer Altertumsverein 1967.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 49.3 " N , 8 ° 0 ′ 26.7" E