Hiltl House

"The beautiful house of Mr. Hiltl", this is how a small entry in the "Münchner Elegant Sonntagsblatt" begins in the edition of January 1st, 1809, in which the facade is also shown in precise drawings.

The postcard shows the former development on Prannerstraße 4 in Munich. It was Munich's first town house in the style of early classicism and was decorated with reliefs by Franz Jakob Schwanthaler .

The Hiltl house was an outstanding example of bourgeois living in the classicism style in Munich's Prannerstraße 4 (formerly Prannerstraße 24). It was the first private residential building in Munich, which stylistically radically turned away from traditional construction and used architecture as a means of political self-expression. The architect was Nikolaus Schedel von Greifenstein who, together with Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell and Carl von Fischer , served as a board member of the Munich City Planning Commission from 1809.

The leading Munich sculptor Franz Jakob Schwanthaler adorned the facade in 1808 with two mighty friezes running across the entire width of the house. The bas-reliefs created a sensation and met with public approval. They glorified the Bavarian army under Napoleon's leadership and the prospect of a lasting and secured peace. In addition, Mercury, the god of trade and commerce, is highlighted.

Successor building from the 1970s (Prannerstraße 4).

history

First owner

The development of the Prannerstrasse can be traced back to 1436. According to the house book of the city of Munich, the buildings at today's Prannerstraße 4 extended around an atrium extending far into the depth of the property, always up to Salvatorstraße 11. The builder and first owner in 1575 was the Munich patrician and councilor Wolf Donnersberger, who bequeathed the property to his son Kaspar in 1583. In 1615 the electoral court chamber councilor Wiguläus Widmann took over the property and sold it in 1648 to the imperial count Franz Ferdinand von Haimhausen. The building complex remained in his family until 1808.

Johann Georg Hiltl: Entrepreneur and innovative new designer

Johann Georg Hiltl was born in Munich in 1771. After completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter, he continued his education during his wanderings abroad, returned to his hometown in 1794 and acquired the property at Prannerstraße 4 for 38,000 guilders in 1807. Here he opened a furniture store, the first of its kind in Munich. Contrary to the compulsory guild, 40 to 50 journeymen made furniture for it, in addition, bought-in furniture from the leading metropolises of Paris and London was offered. Hiltl favored the style of early classicism . Today his products fetch considerable prices. As an artist and businessman, he was one of the “most interesting phenomena in Munich”. Its high-quality range ensured an illustrious circle of visitors and customers, including the royal family. The flourishing company encouraged Hiltl to redesign the facade at great expense. With the large relief ribbons by Franz Jakob Schwanthaler , he was also in step with the times.

In the summer of 1813 Hiltl was accused of treason at the instigation of the almighty minister Maximilian von Montgelas and imprisoned for almost a year. The reason for this was Hiltl's increasing skepticism about the political supremacy of France and, according to him, the intrigue and envy of his contemporaries. Although the Higher Appeal Court acquitted him on June 17, 1814, the bankruptcy of his formerly flourishing company was inevitable. Hiltl fought for decades for a compensation payment as reparation.

Other owners

In 1810 the brewery leaseholder Ferdinand Reitter acquired the building complex, which three years later handed it over to his son Johann. Joseph von Taufkirchen acquired it in 1823. From 1831 the property changed hands three times in a row, always bourgeois owners, until it was passed to Karl von Aretin, imperial councilor and royal chamberlain, for 70,900 guilders in 1851. He sold it to three middle-class merchants in 1872, and in 1908 the Bavarian state took it over.

Destruction in the Second World War and rebuilding

In 1944 the building was badly damaged in an air raid. After the end of the war, the remains of the facade were removed. In the 1970s, the property was given a "modern new building" by the Bayerische Vereinsbank.

Renewed construction

In 2011 Prannerstraße 4, together with the Palais Neuhaus-Preysing next to it (Prannerstraße 2), the building of the former Bayerische Staatsbank (Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße 1) and an office building at Salvatorplatz 3 and the adjacent Salvator parking garage came into the possession of Bavarian house construction within the Schörghuber group of companies .

On October 9, 2014, a public hearing was held to discuss the demolition of Prannerstraße 4 and the luxury apartments planned there as part of a planned major project. On October 24, 2014, the Friends of the Old Town in Munich asked for the reconstruction of the historical facade in an open letter, because the previous construction made it clear “how important the successful reconstruction of historical facades can be for our city in a suitable place and how dramatic architectural mistakes can be in the city Old Town. ”On March 24, 2015, Bayerische Hausbau presented the winning design of the architecture competition. According to a design by the architects Diener & Diener (Basel / Berlin), condominiums with a total of 8,000 square meters are now being built behind an artificial stone facade, which the jury found “dignified and stylish”. "The building will blend in 100 percent with the cityscape," said Conservator General Mathias Pfeil from the State Office for Monument Preservation . Shops, offices and possibly a café will be built on the ground floor of the facility. The new building could thus bring “a little more life” to the “rather quiet Kreuzviertel”.

It is currently unclear whether Franz Jakob Schwanthaler's ribbons in relief from the original facade have been preserved.

literature

• Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association (Hrsg.): Munich and its buildings. Munich 1912.
• Johann Georg Hiltl: "Presentation to the second chamber of the State Assembly of the Kingdom of Bavaria". Munich 1831.
• Hans Lehmbruch: A new Munich. Urban planning and urban development around 1800. Research and documents. Buchendorf 1987 * Rudolf Reiser: Old houses - big names . 2., revised. Ed., Stiebner, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7654-2187-1 .
• Erwin Schleich: The second destruction of Munich. Stuttgart 1978.
• City archive Munich (ed.): House book of the city of Munich . Vol. 2 (= cross quarter ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1960.
• Florian Zimmermann: Housing in Munich 1800–1850. Munich 1984. ISBN 3-87821-204-6 .

See also

• List of palaces in Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Altstadtfreunde Munich from October 24th to Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter and City Planning Officer Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Merk. online ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ tz of March 25, 2015.
3. ↑ tz of March 25, 2015.
4. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Büllesbach, CEO of Bayerische Hausbau, quoted in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 24, 2015.
5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 24, 2015.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 28.3 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 25.2"  E