Herzogskasten (Abensberg)
The Herzogskasten in Abensberg is a Gothic secular building . It originally served as a granary ( Zehentstadel ) and warehouse for other goods. Today it houses the Abensberg City Museum and the tourist information (Dollingerstraße 18).
History of the building
The Abensberg Duke's Box was built in its original form between 1450 and 1480 from quarry stone masonry and belonged to the Abensberg Castle in the immediate vicinity. In the Salbuch der Herrschaft Abensberg from 1467 it says: “After that, the rule at Abennsperg is valid, all large and small, to getraide, pfenningen, and other, as it is called, belong to the box of sloß and stat Abennsperg. “The building mentioned may have been a predecessor, but dendrochronological studies in 2001 showed that the current duke's box was built in the second half of the 15th century. At that time, however, the Lords of Abensberg still ruled; only later did the town and granary fall to the Bavarian dukes . The name "Troadstadel", which was also used in the past, refers to its original function as a granary (Troad means grain).
Around 1597 the building was partially demolished, the individual floors were raised and a mighty new roof structure was erected. Since then, the building has three full and three attic floors. A part was basement with a barrel vault . This basement is a subsequent installation, but it cannot be dated.
During the War of the Austrian Succession , military goods were stored in the duke's chest; after the battle of Abensberg it was used to house the prisoners of war . In 1863 the city of Abensberg acquired the building from the Kingdom of Bavaria . It was around this time that the most momentous intervention in the historical building fabric took place. In order to be able to accommodate the city's hop preparation institute, a large shaft was broken through all floors. Among other things, a chimney for the hop kiln , a freight elevator and several wooden stairs were installed and considerable parts of the historic wooden ceilings were destroyed. From 1961 to 1985 the Herzogskasten was leased to a furniture dealer as a storage and sales building.
After the city of Abensberg had meanwhile sold the building, the plans to convert it into a residential building came to nothing. She bought back the building, which was in poor condition, and began planning a renovation in 2001. Once finished there, the tourist information as well as until then the should cloister of the Carmelite located Aventinusmuseum be accommodated.
Refurbishment and current use
In the course of the renovation, rotten rafters not only had to be replaced, damp masonry dried and foundations reinforced. Fire protection also caused particular problems for the planners. The building was naturally not designed for a large number of visitors; the installation or extension of additional escape staircases was also not possible for monument protection reasons. For this reason, an "overpressure staircase" was installed in the area of the ceiling openings made in the 19th century. In the event of a fire, the doors to the individual floors close, powerful fans in the basement generate excess pressure and prevent smoke from entering the stairwell.
At the same time as the renovation, a usage concept was developed. Both the tourist information and the new city museum of the city of Abensberg should be housed in the Duke's Box. This dual use enables the museum to be opened all the way through.
The origins of the Abensberg City Museum go back to the end of the 19th century. Peter Paul Dollinger and Nikolaus Stark founded a local history collection in 1865, which could be seen in the town hall from 1899. On June 11, 1926, the Abensberger Heimatverein was founded, which built up a local history collection. One of the driving forces was Franz Xaver Osterrieder . This collection was first accessible to the public in the so-called Heimathaus. In 1946 both collections were merged and shown in an exhibition in the Abensberg town hall, which was supervised by Alfons Listl. In 1963, after the restoration of the Carmelite monastery, a new museum was built above the cloister, the so-called Aventinus Museum, under the direction of Fritz Angrüner. In 2002 the Abensberg Heimatverein donated its collection to the city. Before moving to the new domicile, Maria Rind developed a completely new exhibition concept with the help of the state office for non-state museums in Bavaria . Audio guides and several media terminals are now available to visitors, where, among other things, films and sound documents can be viewed or listened to.
The seven floors are divided as follows:
- Basement: Representation of the Neolithic Arnhofen flint mine
- Ground floor: tourist information, museum shop, cloakroom
- 1st floor: room for special events and exhibitions
- 2nd floor: From the castle to the city - city history from the Middle Ages to after the Second World War
- 3rd floor: Life in the city - handicrafts, regional economy and everyday domestic life
- 4th floor: Religious life in and around Abensberg - churches, monasteries, pilgrimages and religious art, including the emperor's crib by Sebastian Osterrieder
- 5th floor: famous sons of the city and research cell Herzogskasten.
Famous sons were:
- Johannes Aventinus (1477–1534), Bavarian historian
- Aloisius Wiguläus Kreittmayr (1705–1790), Bavarian minister and eminent lawyer (although not born in Abensberg itself)
- Joseph von Hazzi (1768–1845), Bavarian civil servant and scout
The research cell is a small reference library (in cooperation with the University Library of Regensburg ) and has two computer workstations.
On July 7, 2006, the renovated Duke's Box was officially opened in the presence of the Bavarian Interior Minister Günther Beckstein . Tobias Hammerl has been running the Abensberg City Museum and the tourist information office since September 1st, 2006. In the meantime, the museum has shown several special exhibitions, for example about the Abensberg artist Ferdinand Kieslinger, the Abensberg urban development, the Abensberg motor sport history and the cultural history of the Christmas crib.
See also
literature
- Georg Paula , Volker Liedke, Michael M. Rind : District of Kelheim (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume II.30 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-7954-0009-0 .
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Footnotes
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 53 " N , 11 ° 50 ′ 44" E