Hotel Saint-Livier

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The Hôtel Saint-Livier in Metz is the oldest bourgeois building in the city and is both a defensive tower and a luxurious residence. The building ensemble is a listed building.

location

The building is located at 1 rue des Trinitaires in Metz, which once housed a convent of the Trinitarian Order .

Protection

The facades and roofs, the border wall on the street with its door, as well as the remains of a gallery, the hall from the 16th century and the stairs on one side, as well as the wall paintings on parts of the ground floor of the building in the backyard are classified as Monument historique since December 12, 1939, since May 15, 2003 also for the wall paintings.

building

The building was built in the late 12th century on the site of a palace of the Kings of Austrasia . It reflects the Italian influence of the Lombard architectural style on the city's medieval bourgeois architecture in the 13th century. A high donjon , a low roof, a recessed facade, dominated by a several meters high crenellated wall that serves as a battlement . The facade of the building has windows from the 13th and 16th centuries. Originally there were two crenellated towers at the opposite corners of the representative magnificent building, only one of which could be saved to the present day.

Todays use

The city of Metz bought the building in 1898. The monument historique it was in 1939 under monument protection provided and since 1998 it uses the Lorraine region for the Regional Fund of contemporary art. In 2004 it was restored by employees of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Metz . Some contemporary elements were added. The building was designed for a new function. It now includes premises with an area of ​​2000 m², of which 500 m² are exhibition space. The new name is: 49N 6E, according to its geodetic coordinates.

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literature

  • Amédée Boinet: Hôtel dit de Saint-Livier , conférence au Congrès archéologique de France, 83rd session, Metz, Strasbourg et Colmar.
  • Philippe Hubert: Metz, ville d'architectures , éd. Serge Domini, Metz, ISBN 2912645700 , 2004, pp. 12-13.
  • Jean-Louis Jolin: Trésors de Metz , éd. Serge Domini, Vaux, ISBN 2354750080 ; Pp. 44-45.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.mairie-metz.fr/metz2/municipalite/vam/pdf/0909_hs.pdf ( Memento of October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , dans Metz Magazine , hors série 3, 2009, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Location in Metz

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 14.5 "  N , 6 ° 10 ′ 45.6"  E