Hafenmarkt 9 (Esslingen)
The Hafenmarkt 9 building in Esslingen am Neckar , also known as the Yellow House , is essentially a residential tower from the 13th century. This part of the building is the last completely preserved family tower in the city. The building now houses the Esslingen City Museum .
history
The residential tower was probably built around 1269 as part of an urban aristocratic courtyard. It has an almost square floor plan and three floors above the basement; the access was originally from the east side. Early Gothic , two-part window openings can be seen on the facade, some of which have three passes. Behind the windows there are niches with stone benches. The ground floor and the first floor originally had wooden ceilings, while the second floor has a barrel vault . On the second floor there is a wall safe with an iron door. The city fires in 1654 and 1701 discolored the hump square masonry on the ground floor.
In the 16th century, a facade bay was installed at the level of the first floor; A psalm was painted over the gate on the first floor in 1639. In the first half of the 16th century, a half-timbered building to the east of the tower was either rebuilt or rebuilt. He had a ground floor in solid construction, the basement of which can be seen with a round arch and two coat of arms fields on the east side of today's building complex.
After the city fire of 1701, a new, two-storey, plastered half-timbered building was built over this old ground floor, which was drawn at an angle in front of the south side of the old tower and was given a shared roof. This building has baroque doors with ears on the ground floor and rooms arranged in an enfilade . The keystones of the main portal and its skylight are decorated with the coat of arms of Erhard Friedrich Weinland and his wife, née. Williards, the saying “Hominibus non Deo confide” and the initials of Weinland.
In 1898 an arbor was added, which in the reconstructed state now belongs to the neighboring house at Heugasse 8. In 1903 more doors and windows were installed on the ground floor and the room structure changed. In the 1970s, the building was renovated and connected to the neighboring building at Hafenmarkt 7 . The facade of the old tower was painted yellow and, as in the Baroque era, was given corner blocks painted on it. In the course of the renovation to the city museum between 1987 and 1989, the old tower entrances were reopened.
David Friedrich Weinland lived in the building from 1876 to 1883 .
literature
- Andrea Steudle among others: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 123 f.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 32 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 32.6" E