House of the Dolphin (Constance)
The Delphin House is a residential building in the old town of Konstanz (Hussenstrasse 14). Major parts of its late medieval and early modern building stock have been preserved and properly restored between 1977 and 1987. This makes the house to the dolphin an important testimony to the living culture of Constance, especially of the late Middle Ages.
description
The Delphin House is located in the southwest of the old town of Constance on a main road leading to the south. The tree ring dating of the timbers suggests that construction began in 1313. The core structure is made of quarry stone and Wacken masonry; it measures about 6.5 meters in width and 10 meters in depth. The three upper floors and the vaulted cellar are accessed by stairs at the rear. Today the street front shows again a corner block, cornices between the floors, the original row of windows and a skylight with a three-pass tracery; these elements have been reconstructed according to the original findings. In 1668 the house was extended to the rear with a simple half-timbered extension; In 1803 a rear building was added. The large rooms in the front building receive their daylight exclusively from the windows facing the street. The room on the first floor is extended with a window pillar from 1579 and a pillar architectural painting from the Renaissance period. Older elements are a Gothic plank and beam ceiling and the remains of late Gothic tendril painting. In the room on the second floor there is a late Gothic wooden ceiling with profiled joint strips and remnants of the ashlar painting from the construction period. On the third floor there is a fully paneled hall built in after 1385, which perhaps served as the carpenters' guild room.
history
Nothing is known about the builders of the Haus zum Delphin and its early owners in the 14th century. In the 15th century the house belonged to wealthy artisans; one of them hosted the Bohemian reformer Jerome of Prague in 1415 . The goldsmith Hans Jakob Übelacker, known as the master of the Überlingen Swedish Madonna, lived there in the 17th century, and the court painter Johann Jakob Anton von Lenz (1701–1764) in the 18th century. More recently, the house has belonged to less wealthy people, including the father of the famous picture book illustrator Ernst Kreidolf (1863–1956), who grew up here. In 1977, the Constance-based building contractor Werner Schupp acquired the house and modernized it in the period that followed, with the front building in particular being reconstructed to its original state or the characteristic expansion stages. Today the house is used for cultural purposes; it is named for the dolphin books, a book series on the history of the city of Constance and its neighboring communities.
literature
- Gernot Blechner: From Hieronymus to the Dolphin Circle. The house "Zum Delphin" on Hussenstrasse. In: Das DelphinBuch , 6, 2000, pp. 102-132.
- Gernot Blechner: 700 years of the Dolphin House. Insights into a Gothic residential building. In: Das DelphinBuch , 11, 2013, pp. 15–51.
- Werner Schupp (ed.): 1313-2013. 700 years of Haus Zum Delphin. Constance 2013.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Helmut Stolz : Constance goldsmith created Überlinger Schwedenmadonna . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv , Vol. 86, 3rd F. Vol. 18, 1966, pp. 515-518. Digitized