House of the Guest (Pfronten)
The striking Haus des Gastes in Pfronten is a building that has been included in the list of architectural monuments . It is in the Pfronten-Ried district at the beginning of Vilstalstraße.
House history
Shooting range
In the Bavarian cadastral record sheet SW XXVII.33, a square building with the designation "Schiesstatt" is entered at the place of today's Haus des Gastes. The Pfronten rifle companies, which before 1800 originally had military and police tasks as a kind of homeland security, drilled here. If your shooting range on the edge of the Rieder Viehweide was not completely rebuilt here in the middle of the 18th century, then the dance house of the municipality of Pfronten was previously attached to it. In 1740 it is said that the "dance house and the target place" collapsed and the old wood was sold. The dance house is already mentioned in the municipal bill 1698/99.
With the transfer of the Hochstift Augsburg to the Bavarian state , the shooters lost their importance and had to give up their previous centrally located practice area. They found a new home in the Achtal in the Fallmühle inn.
school
The new Bavarian government soon ordered that the partly outdated school buildings should be replaced by new ones. In Pfronten, too, the old school in the Heitlern district was much too small and completely dilapidated. Therefore, the community planned a new schoolhouse, which the then local school inspector , Pastor Johann Nepomuk Lutzenberger, wanted to see near the Church of St. Nicholas and the rectory. Since the new building should also house the parish chancellery, the mayor Johann Martin Hörmann wanted the Ried district as the location, where he lived himself. The community leader prevailed and the schoolhouse in Ried was built on the site of the former shooting range.
It is a two-storey solid building with a fully hipped roof . The extremely high roof structure, which the master carpenter Joseph Anton Schwarz von Pfronten-Kappel used to account for, is particularly interesting. A lightning rod was even laid on the roof, for which 194 shoes (approx. 58 meters) of brass wire were required. Inside, a spacious corridor separates a smaller part in the west from a wider east part. Here was the "community room" below and a school room to the north. There were two more classrooms on the upper floor. The narrower side of the building housed a vaulted archive on the south side, the heavy iron door of which is still preserved. Above that there were two smaller rooms that served as a flat for one or two assistants (assistant teachers). Two superposed "secretions" in a northern extension were the toilet facility.
The furnishings included three crucifixes that Johann Sigmund Hitzelberger had carved and a picture of King Max I Joseph and another, probably older, crucifix hung in the gold frame in the parish room . There was also a new "positive" or an "organ" (small and larger piano) in two classrooms.
At the inauguration of the school building on November 21, 1817, a solemn parade took place, in which musicians, marksmen and " Fisilier " and even "Ordinanz Reiter" took part. They were entertained by Franz Brecheler in the Engel inn, which the community had to pay for an additional 35 guilders in addition to the total construction costs of 4,400 guilders.
House of the guest
The growing population and the increasing number of pupils as well as a planned amalgamation of the elementary schools in Pfronten-Ösch and Pfronten-Ried made it necessary to build a new school by 1956. After the pupils had moved to the central school in Pfronten-Heitlern, the question of how to continue using the Ried school building arose. There were quite a few members of the local council who supported the demolition of the now rather unsightly old schoolhouse. It is mainly thanks to the "Association for the Preservation of the Old School House in Pfronten eV" that it was not added.
Now, after a thorough renovation and careful renovation, the headquarters of "Pfronten Tourismus" and the tourist office are housed in the building in which so many generations of Pfronten people went to school. The meetings of the municipal council are now taking place on the upper floor . The former archive, later also used as a detention center, now serves as an exhibition space for works by the Pfronten artists.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pfronten parish archive, parish calculations 1739/40
- ↑ Bertold Pölcher: Where our streets get their name from: "Schießstandweg" . In: Pfronten Mosaik, issue 53 (2009)
- ^ Bertold Pölcher: The "parish school" in Pfronten . In: Pfronten Mosaik, issue 25 (2003)
- ↑ Bertold Pölcher: Where our streets got their name from: "Martin-Hörmann-Straße" . In: Pfronten Mosaik, issue 57 (2011)
- ↑ Michael Petzet: Bavarian Art Monuments - City and District of Füssen , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1960, p. 143
- ↑ a b c d e Invoices for the construction of the school and parish hall 1816/17, parish invoices in the Pfronten parish archive
- ↑ Ludwig Holzner: History of the community Pfronten , community Pfronten (ed.), 1956, p. 93
Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 54.2 " N , 10 ° 33 ′ 25.8" E