Höerhof
The Höerhof is a half-timbered house in the old town of Idstein in the Hessian Rheingau-Taunus district . Due to its architectural style, it stands out from the surrounding half-timbered buildings. It is also popularly known as the Toepferhaus . The investments of the Höerhof are under monument protection and house a four-star - hotel with a restaurant operation .
description
The Höerhof stands out from other buildings in the old town, which is characterized by half-timbering, because its design does not correspond to the otherwise Hessian, simple half-timbering. It stands in particular contrast to its immediate neighbor (Obergasse 24).
The building complex today has the address Obergasse 26. At the time of construction it was located directly at the Obertor, the southern gate of the Idstein city wall . It is divided into four wings that enclose an inner courtyard. It is a half-timbered building in the Renaissance style , which was awarded for the facade design in 1993. The arrangement of the buildings corresponds to that of a Franconian-Central German homestead.
The gable-side main building on a rectangular floor plan, with a façade-defining bay window crowned by a hooded lantern over almost the entire height of the house and a stair tower pushed backwards represents the oldest part of the Höerhof. It incorporates formal elements that are comparable to the Idsteiner Schloss . The half-timbered structure rises above the high, solid storey, showing decorative carvings on the street side - similar to that of the somewhat older Killingerhaus . The upper floor is characterized by Franconian window bay windows and richly carved parapet panels. On the south side of the main house facing the courtyard there is a stone portal with diamond ashlar, a straight lintel and the coat of arms of Henrich Heer and his wife Anna Rumpfelin. The portal bears the inscription: "Henrich Heer Anna Rumpfelin God of all things beginning protect our entrance and exit 1626". On the tail gable of the main house there are richly decorated leaf ornaments and geometric ornaments. The main house is the most ornate part of the Höerhof, the other parts are kept simpler.
The west view is characterized by the two entrances (the entrance gate and the basement exit). In the east is the barn from the 18th century, which was completely renovated and redesigned in the course of the hotel furnishings.
Not all decorative elements that can be found on the Höerhof today belong to the building's origin. As a collector of antiques , Ernst Toepfer redesigned some areas according to his ideas, using what was found in the surrounding area. Parts of the floors were in the Wiesbaden Residenz Theater or in the Arnsberg Monastery . Windows and carvings are from other half-timbered houses. This probably explains one of the panels with the inscription "Iohann Weitzel Anna Catharina Weitzel Eheleud / anno 1670" . This inscription otherwise contradicts the history of the house, because Johann Weitzel was a Nassau bailiff in Bad Camberg from 1676 to 1698 . The baroque sandstone fountain in the paved courtyard can probably be traced back to Ernst Toepfer . Old tiled stoves and cast iron stoves are leftovers from Toepfer's household effects. In the “Gutsstub” on the ground floor, paintings by Toepfer's hand have been preserved.
history
Established under Henrich Heer
The builder of the Höerhof is the construction clerk and draftsman Henrich Heer. The name Heer appears in old files in various spellings, such as Her, Hehr, Heher, Heehr, Hör and Höer . Henrich Heer only used the spelling "Heer" . The son of the Nassau-Saarbrücken castle builder Lieutenant Jost Heer, who lives in Homburg in the Saarland, visited Idstein for the first time in 1607 and was commissioned by Wilhelm Ludwig Graf von Nassau-Saarbrücken to renovate the Idstein castle in 1614 . On June 3, 1617, Heer married Anna Rumpfelin, the daughter of the presence master Conrad Rumpfelin.
With a document dated April 10, 1620, in the third year of the Thirty Years' War , Heer inherited the property at Idsteiner Obertor at the end of Obergasse by Count Wilhelm Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken. This donation was probably part of the remuneration for the work done on the castle renovation. The count generously released the property from all complaints, billeting and war contributions.
On July 7th of the same year this donation was confirmed by the lay judges , the mayor and the mayor . The main house was built from 1620 to 1626. It is assumed that Count Ludwig helped his building scribe with the construction of the Höerhof, in the form of providing building materials. The beams used are sometimes of considerable dimensions, especially for a middle-class house. The Henrich Heer building material from the castle renovation could have "branched off" without the knowledge of his employer is inconceivable, since the Idstein citizens were watching the work on the castle too closely.
Changing uses and owners
The southern components were added around 1700, followed by the barn a little later. Different uses followed, including as a hunting lodge or as a forestry office . In the 19th century it shifted to a purely agricultural purpose.
The ownership situation was equally changeable: the son Henrich Heers, the Wiesbaden-based Nassau rent master Johann Balthasar Heer, rented the Höerhof in 1657 to the widow of the superintendent Erithropilus. In 1668 the Idstein cellar David Crusius lived in the Höerhof. During this time, extensive repairs were carried out at the expense of the manor. For the following years there are indications of the ownership of the Höerhof from the confirmation of the freedoms.
In 1685 these were awarded to the governor Heinrich von Joß, in 1710 to the Nassau councilor Johann Hartmut Gärtner, in 1720 to the royal Saxon-Merseburg court master Friedrich Ludwig von Rodenhausen and in 1729 and 1736 to his widow Charlotte von Rodenhausen. In 1749 the goods from Rodenhausischen were sold to some citizens , in 1788 Philipp Jakob Justi pledged the Hofreite . In 1844, Oberforster Krückeberg is the owner, in 1851 Karl Michel bought the property from Justi-Krückeberg. The property then remained in the hands of the Michel family until 1910.
Ernst Toepfer
In 1910 the painter Ernst Toepfer bought the estate into which he moved in 1911. He was a realistic impressionist painter who devoted himself in particular to motifs from his homeland until his death in 1955. In the following year, extensive redesigns of the Höerhof according to Toepfer's ideas took place under the direction of the Wiesbaden graduate engineer Kühne. After Toepfer's death, the Höerhof passed on to his heirs. The names Haus Toepfer , Toepferhaus and toepferisches Haus, which are common in popular parlance and literature, can also be traced back to the Toepfer family .
In 1981, a permanent exhibition of Ernst Toepfer's works was set up in the house, which lasted until it was sold in 1990.
The facade renovation in keeping with the style was recognized in 1985.
Change to hotel and restaurant business
Dr. Dorothea Elisabeth Schlueter ran an oral surgery practice in Idstein in the eighties. In this context she got to know Idstein and was enthusiastic about the medieval townscape . Visits followed with her husband Hans Herbert Schlueter, a Frankfurt architect, during which the Höerhof was discovered. When the couple examined the Höerhof with interest, she asked Maria-Luise Toepfer whether they were interested in buying and led the couple through the house. A widespread representation in the local press that the discovery of the Höerhof was due to a road closure is incorrect.
On May 31, 1990, the couple Dorothea Elisabeth and Hans Herbert Schlüter acquired the Höerhof, which was in need of renovation at that time, from Maria-Luise Toepfer and Christiane Ermster - Ernst Toepfer's descendants. As BDA architect, Schlüter managed and designed the construction work. In honor of Henrich Heer's achievements, the name was changed to Höerhof, a controversial issue among the Idstein population. In 1991/92 the buildings were renovated and converted into a hotel and restaurant. Operations began in 1992.
In 1993 the Höerhof won the facade competition of the city of Idstein.
In 2002, the Schlueters leased the Höerhof to a restaurant.
In 2005 Sabine Kogge, daughter of the Schlueter couple, took over the Höerhof after the restaurant business had gone bankrupt.
Hotel and restaurant
Among other things, the restaurant was awarded a recommendation in the Michelin Guide in Gault-Millau . On the part of the hotel, the spelling in capital letters HÖERHOF is consistently maintained.
Monument protection
The building bears the international trademark for the identification of cultural property according to the Hague Convention and is a listed building.
literature
- Christel Lentz, Gerhard lamp: The painter Ernst Toepfer - life and work , S 31f published by the magistrate of Idstein
- Karl Lohmeyer: The Heer or Höer , in Saarbrücker Hefte Heft 1, 1955, published by the city of Saarbrücken
Web links
- Official website
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Obergasse 26 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Historical picture on Alt-Idstein.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ The splendor of the "unequal couple" , Untertaunus Kurier, July 12, 2002
- ↑ Idsteiner Heimatschau, Volume 2, No. 8, July 21, 1926, p. 4
- ↑ Modern with respect for the old , Wiesbadener Tagblatt dated June 2, 1997
- ^ Idstein's first monument protector , Wiesbadener Tagblatt of May 10, 1990
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.): Obergasse 26 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 11 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 16.9 ″ E