Shepherd's House (Weismain)

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Shepherd's House (Weismain)
Weismain, Von-Rudhart-Straße 11, 001.jpg
Data
place Weismain,
Von-Rudhardt-Straße 11
Client City of Weismain
Architectural style Half-timbered from the late 18th century
Construction year late 18th century
Floor space approx. 85 m²
Coordinates 50 ° 5 '3.4 "  N , 11 ° 14' 27.2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '3.4 "  N , 11 ° 14' 27.2"  E

The shepherd's house is a half-timbered house in the Upper Franconian town of Weismain , with the address Von-Rudhardt-Straße 11. Under the number D-4-78-176-64 , the house is protected as a monument by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . It was formerly used as the community shepherd's apartment and as the poor house of the city and is now privately owned.

history

The building was erected in the late 18th century for the city of Weismain. Since shepherds and shepherds belonged to the lower social rankings at that time and were accordingly often poor, the house was given to them by the city of Weismain as their official residence. Today it serves as a private residence.

architecture

The house is evidence of the general decline in half-timbered construction, which began in the mid-18th century. It is a two-storey hipped roof house with simple, sober half-timbering without any noteworthy decorative shapes . The purely structural components come to the fore and a kind of "lattice framework" is created. It is only structured by simple St. Andrew's crosses in the parapets of the upper floor and wall-high K-struts . The facade remained unplastered for reasons of cost and thus stood in contrast to the other half-timbered buildings in the city, which at that time were mostly slated or plastered for fashion reasons.

See also

literature

  • Peter Ruderich: Weismain's history of art and architecture from the 13th to the 20th century . In: Günter Dippold (Ed.): Weismain , Volume 2, Weismain 1996, ISBN 3-9804106-0-9 , pp. 81-200

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Weismain (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ a b c Ruderich (1996), p. 164