Peeping
Guckehürle are small Ausgucktürmchen, mostly with a gable roof , which at the First are mounted on two pairs Rafter and be reached via a steep staircase from the top loft from.
The peep hurdles are an architectural specialty of Ulm and can be found in large numbers on old cityscapes. The earliest evidence of a peephole in Ulm is a stained glass in Ulm Minster from around 1430 . Before the extensive destruction of Ulm's old town in the bombing of Ulm on December 17, 1944 , 43 peep hurles have been identified. During the reconstruction work, even if the houses were preserved, numerous peepholes were removed or not rebuilt, as too little attention was paid to their preservation.
Herbert Wiegandt traces the origin of the term “peep-hurle” back to a combination of “peep” and the Bavarian term “hur”, which describes a chimney . Outside of Ulm, the term is also used for Augsburg , Kaufbeuren , Memmingen and Ravensburg . There are some peeping halls in Nördlingen , but they are not referred to by this term there. In the former imperial urban area of the city of Ulm, there are more peeping halls in Langenau (today's museum of local history) and on a school building in the Neu-Ulm district of Pfuhl .
As the name suggests, the peephole served as a lookout, especially in the event that there was a fire somewhere or enemy troops were standing in front of the city. The Germanist Hermann Fischer describes it in the Swabian concise dictionary as “a kind of roof turret on the ridge of old private houses, in a chimney-like shape, serving to provide a wide view, therefore provided with seats on the inside (Ulm). - Upper part of a building where you have a wide view, skylights, or roof turrets ALLG . "
In the old town of Ulm there is a restaurant called “Guckehürle” at Büchsengasse 20 in a three-story house from the 16th or 17th century; As part of its restoration and refurbishment, this house also received its original peephole on the roof, which was removed in 1962.
literature
- Hellmut Pflüger: Ulm monuments . Association Alt-Ulm e. V., Ulm 1963.
- Otto Wiegandt: Small contributions and pictures from old Ulm . In: Ulm and Upper Swabia . History and Art Journal. tape 39 . Ulm City Archives, 1970, p. 192-196 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Pflüger, sheet 3; Wiegandt, p. 192.
- ^ Wiegandt, p. 193.
- ↑ Pflüger, sheet 3.
- ↑ Wiegandt, pp. 192–193.
- ^ Hermann Fischer: Swabian Concise Dictionary; based on the "Swabian Dictionary" by Hermann Fischer and Wilhelm Pfleiderer . Ed .: edited by Hermann Fischer and Hermann Taigel. H. Laup'sche Buchhandlung, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-16-444814-7 , p. 202 .
- ↑ Erwin Zint: Accounting for the historical building structure, Ulm . 1993, p. 71 .
- ↑ Restoration and renovation of the residential and commercial building at Büchsengasse 20 ( Memento of the original of February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stemshornarchitekten.de, accessed on February 26, 2016
