House without a roof (Kallmünz)

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House without a roof in Kallmünz

The house without a roof is a still-used cave in the Upper Palatinate market in Kallmünz .

location

The cave is located north of the Vils at the southern end of the Schlossberg, on which the Kallmünz castle ruins stand. The entrance is set back from Vilsgasse at the foot of an approximately 20-meter-high limestone wall of the Schlossberg, the access leads between the listed residential buildings Vilsgasse 26 and Vilsgasse 28 .

history

The house without a roof with forge on a painting by Franz Skarbina (1849–1910)

The oldest known mention of the cave dwelling can be found in a document kept in the land register archive in Amberg with the year 1707. In the 19th century it was also referred to as the “house under the rock”. In 1908 it was sold to the owner of the forge in front of it on the road, in whose family it is still owned. The last permanent resident left the house in 1937 because he suffered from rheumatism from the damp cave air .

In the meantime, a roof has been erected inside the house to prevent water from entering. But this roof is not visible from the outside.

description

The house without a roof consists of a natural cave in the dolomite rock, the opening of which is closed by a plastered wall with door and windows. Inside there is a corridor, a living room, two storage rooms fitted into rock niches and a historic smokehouse .

Varia

In the novel, Rosalie by Berni Mayer the story takes place at a time and in the house without a roof.

This house shows how the primeval tradition of the “resting place under the rock” has been preserved in modern times by some settlements.

literature

  • House without a roof - ancient rock apartment in Kallmünz . In: Horst M. Auer (Hrsg.): Location history Franconia: Excursions into the past (=  Ars Vivendi leisure guide ). tape 1 . Ars-Vivendi-Verlag, Cadolzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86913-491-8 , p. 82 f .

Web links

Commons : House Without a Roof  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cave dwelling as a personal nostalgia place. In: nordbayern.de. Nürnberger Nachrichten and Nürnberger Zeitung, accessed on April 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Franz Lindenmayr: The house without a roof - a cave dwelling in Kallmünz. In: lochstein.de. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Historical places and places. In: kallmuenz.de. Administrative association Kallmünz, accessed on April 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Berni Mayer: Rosalie , Dumont Buchverlag, November 17, 2016, Chapter 8 Albert ( Google Books ).
  5. ↑ M. Lassleben: Die Oberpfalz , Volume 44, 1956, page 174 ( Google Books ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '39.77 "  N , 11 ° 57' 6.58"  E