House to the falcon

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The falcon house on the upper market in Würzburg
Haus zum Falken, central gable

The Haus zum Falken , also known as the Falkenhaus , is a building on the market square in downtown Würzburg .

The original building was called "Hof zur Burgpfarre" and served as accommodation for the cathedral pastor from 1338 onwards. The house was bought by the innkeeper Franz Thomas Meißner in 1735 and operated as the "Zum Falken" inn . Meißner's widow had the three- gabled , stucco- decorated Rococo facade built in 1751 . Until the 19th century, the three-story Falkenhaus housed Würzburg's only concert and dance hall.

The house was bought by the city of Würzburg in 1939. During the Second World War , the building burned down completely during the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945, and parts of the facade collapsed. Due to the prominent location of the destroyed building on the upper market, the Würzburg government master builder Rudolf Schlick represented the reconstruction in 1947 for reasons of monument preservation , but this was initially delayed. At the beginning of the 1950s it was carried out by the Würzburg municipal building department based on old photographs. The reconstruction of the facade is considered exemplary according to the Dehio art handbook , but the internal organization of the building was adapted to contemporary uses. The building has been in its current condition since 1952 and houses the tourist information and the central city ​​library of the city of Würzburg.

Decades later, the incorporation of the building into a department store complex was discussed. Here the replicated rococo facade would only have been preserved as a “pre-faded pane”. From 1993 the city library in the Falkenhaus was rebuilt and expanded, while the Falkenhof , which has housed a youth center since 1972 , and the former falcon or central halls of the Falkenhaus accessible via Marienplatz , were demolished. The house is adjacent to the Marienkapelle on one side and the Kaufhof department store on the other .

literature

  • Winfried Nerdinger , Ines Florschütz (Hrsg.): Architecture of the child prodigies - awakening and displacement in Bavaria 1945-1960. (= Catalog of the exhibition of the same name of the architecture museum of the Technical University of Munich in the Pinakothek der Moderne, February 3 to April 30, 2005). Pustet, Salzburg / Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-7025-0505-9 , pp. 258 f.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3422030510 , p. 1222 f.
  • Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: p. 656.

Web links

Commons : Falkenhaus (Würzburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franziska Hauck: In memory ... memorial plaques of the old town of Würzburg. A catalog. 2010, p. 32. ( PDF online ).
  2. ↑ www.wuerzburg-fotos.de: Falkenhaus .
  3. ↑ http://www.wuerzburg.de/de/tourismus-tagungen/sehenswuerdheiten/extras/15011.Falkenhaus.html
  4. ↑ Peter Motsch: An open heart for the entire youth. The commitment of the city of Würzburg: three examples of paramount importance and impact. In: Heinz Otremba, Bruno Rottenbach (ed.): 15 centuries of Würzburg. A city and its history. Echter, Würzburg 1979, p. 440 f.
  5. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 1, Franconian Company Printing Office, Würzburg 1967, p. 66.

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 41.7 "  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 48.7"  E