Römerstrasse 44 (Worms)
In Römerstrasse 44 in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Worms , the north wall of the facade of a Romanesque residential and commercial building has been preserved. Incidentally, the building is of baroque origin and historically was called the Haus Zur drum .
Geographical location
The house is located in the south-east of the inner city on the corner of Römerstrasse and Petersstrasse. The Romanesque facade now forms the front of the house facing Petersstrasse, while the main facade faces Römerstrasse.
history
The original Romanesque building was destroyed by King Ludwig XIV's troops in 1689 at the latest when the city was destroyed during the Palatinate War of Succession . In 1712 it was replaced by a new baroque building with an upper floor, which was called the House of the Drum . A building was introduced to the Romanesque facade in the 18th century at the latest, so that it became the “firewall” between the house for the drum and the second, the corner building at the intersection of Römerstrasse and Petersstrasse. Petersstrasse was a lane and then considerably narrower than it is today. The annex was destroyed in the air raids on Worms in World War II and was no longer rebuilt; instead, Petersstrasse was widened. Only then did the Romanesque facade reappear. When it was rebuilt after the Second World War, another storey was added to the Haus zur Drum and after 1950 a shop window was broken into half of the facade of the first floor facing Römerstrasse .
Building description
Romanesque facade
The Romanesque facade dates from around 1200, when stone residential buildings were still quite rare in Worms. Two more full floors and a top floor have been preserved above the ground floor. These two upper floors each have only one window, each a coupled window with a round arch and a relief arch above . They are in the middle of the facade. On the ground floor there is another coupled window with round arches, which is offset to the left. Right next to it, around 1300, a Gothic double window with a round relief arch above was installed. On the right is an entrance door of an unknown time position on the ground floor. In the gable triangle there is another arched window, from which it is also not known when it came from.
Rest of the building
The house, the north end of which is the Romanesque wall today, dates from the Baroque era. Its main facade points to the Roman road. It is a three-storey, nine-axis building with arched windows . On the apex of the door arch of the entrance is the year 1712 and above it is a putti beating on a drum . This house sign gave the building its name. It is one of the few house signs that have survived in Worms. The second floor was not added until after the Second World War.
meaning
The Romanesque facade is the only part of a Romanesque town house in Worms that has been preserved above ground. The building is a cultural monument due to the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act .
See also
literature
- Irene Spille: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 10 = city of Worms. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1992. ISBN 978-3-88462-084-7 , pp. 147f.
- Irene Spille and Otto Böcher: History of the City of Worms . 2nd edition Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2015. ISBN = 978-3-8062-3158-8, pp. 755, 767.
Web links
- The house "Zur Drum" in Worms on regionalgeschichte.net; Network access: March 14, 2016.
- Proof of monument status on the homepage of the General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate .
Individual evidence
- ^ Regionalgeschichte.net
- ^ Regionalgeschichte.net
- ↑ Spille: Monument topography , p. 147f.
- ↑ Spille: Monument topography , p. 147.
- ↑ Spille: Monument topography , p. 148.
- ↑ Spille: Denkmaltopographie , p. 147f; Proof.
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '48.1 " N , 8 ° 21' 51.8" E