Wedding house (Bamberg)
| Wedding house | |
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 At Kranen 12, Bamberg, the so-called wedding house |
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| place | Bamberg |
| Construction year | First mentioned in 1484 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 53 '33 " N , 10 ° 53' 13" E |
The wedding house in Bamberg is a former bar on the banks of the Regnitz and used to be used for all kinds of celebrations. Today the building is part of the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg . The naming is misleading, since in Old High German and Middle High German “wedding” generally meant “the high, the festive time”. Only with the New High German expression wedding are more and more marriages and related celebrations meant. The wedding house is registered under the number D-4-61-000-25 in the monument protection list.
history
In 1484 the Gasthaus Zum Wilden Mann (today's wedding house) was first mentioned in a document. It consisted of a front building in today's Austraße, the actual inn, and a rear building, the so-called An der Greten . This means the construction on the cranes towards the Regnitzufer. In 1517 Albrecht Dürer stopped in the inn, which speaks for the high reputation of the building at the time. He was a guest in Bamberg at the request of the Prince-Bishop , whom he was to portray . It was the first of Dürer's many visits to the city.
In 1605 the city of Bamberg acquired the Schenkstatt from the widow Katharina Bauer. Thereupon the construction of a citizen's drinking room began, which was completed in 1609. In the following seven years the actual wedding house was built on the Kranen. With the opening of the house, the pub moved to the rear building facing the Regnitz. The reason for the purchase and the new building were the constant family celebrations, which in the long run turned out to be too large for the private premises of the population.
As early as 1616, the city achieved its highest income by renting out the premises. A total of 23 wedding parties were counted. But other festivities were also held. So social gatherings of knighthoods or the city council are known. At the beginning of the 18th century, guest performances by a Dutchman with an elephant and a performance by a French traveling theater were mentioned. In 1720 the spectacles came to an end as the city suffered financial losses and then stopped hosting the weddings and performances.
Vocational school and university building
In 1723 the wedding house was first used for university purposes. The first lectures of the theological faculty , the Academia Ottoniana, took place in 1724. It was then Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn who pushed ahead with the expansion of the young university and began building a law and medical faculty . At that time, the building was used both for student purposes and still as a dining room. The establishment of the medical faculty was not completed until 1770. To 1794 more educational institutions, such as coming engineer - and drawing academy of Leopold West to do so. With the onset of secularization in the 19th century, the ecclesiastical influence in the city declined. The aim of the Bavarian electors was to expand state sovereignty and thus to transfer church property to the state. With the handover of the wedding house to Bavaria, the university was closed. The drawing academy remained, however.
With the establishment of the municipal trade school and its move into the wedding house in 1833, the drawing academy was attached to the school. In addition to this subject, the subjects mathematics , natural science, natural history , chemistry , geometry , French language and agriculture studies were offered. Since the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1802, a specifically agriculture-oriented school system has been established. A distinction must be made between the model agricultural school, the winter school and the agricultural school. While the focus of the model agricultural school was on all areas of agriculture, the winter school concentrated on the training of farm managers. The agriculture school imparted knowledge for future heirs, administrators and builders. With the expansion of the trade school in 1854, the Royal Agricultural, Commercial and Commercial School developed into the second largest in Bavaria by 1857. 304 students attended the educational establishment at this time.
In 1872 it was restructured into a secondary school , which left the building in 1880. Part of the previous vocational school, the so-called vocational training school, was still housed in the wedding house. It specialized in teaching journeymen of all kinds of craft and from 1920 was considered a pioneer of the classic vocational school .
At the end of the Second World War , the front parts of the building were destroyed, so that initially only the part towards Austraße could be used. In the post-war years, the university began to reclaim the rights and property that had been lost through secularization. The law school flourished again. In 1952 the company moved into the now rebuilt wedding house. It now housed the Institute for Canon Law , Church , Secular and, later, Art History , the Chemical Institute with the laboratories for pharmacists, several lecture halls and a library with reading room. From 1958 to 1965, the wedding house became an important factor in the university. With the move of the teacher training college, a significant rapprochement took place with the existing educational establishment.
To this day, the wedding house is affiliated with the University of Bamberg and houses the departments of history , monuments , archeology , art history , European ethnology , geography and other subjects in the humanities and cultural studies .
particularities
The high water marks at the entrance to the building are of local historical interest . The year 1874 is carved into the sandstone to commemorate the catastrophe of February 27 of the same year when the Lower Bridge and the Seesbrücke were torn away by the masses of water. Only the lower bridge was rebuilt.
When the building was rebuilt in 1974, care was taken to integrate the architectural details of the original structure into the new building. Thanks to the use of original set pieces, the facade of the building towards Austraße resembles the first construction at the beginning of the 17th century. The newly created inner courtyard with its benches and plants represents an inner zone and serves as a communication space for students and teachers at the same time. While the floor plan and elevation of the building remained unchanged towards the crane, the facade underwent some changes. So was z. B. bricked up the former pedestrian gate in the new building. Today the old wall joint can still be seen on one of the windows .
literature
- Roth, Elisabeth : University building wedding house. A cultural-historical study. Bamberg 1975 OCLC 251494174 .
- Porsch, Christian: About education, beer and an eternal bond. How the use of the wedding house changed. In: Wied, Kristina (Hrsg.): UNIChron: History and stories of the buildings of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Bamberg 2007 OCLC 749467980 .
- Schurr, Eva: wedding house. In: Hanemann, Regina: In the flow of history. Bamberg's lifeline, Regnitz. Bamberg 2009 OCLC 890358642 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elisabeth Roth: University building, wedding house , p. 13.
- ↑ List of monuments Bavaria, file number D-4-61-000-25 ( List of monuments Bavaria: Bamberg , p. 9; PDF)
- ^ Elisabeth Roth: University building, wedding house , pp. 7–8.
- ↑ Elisabeth Roth: University building, wedding house, p. 13.
- ↑ Wedding house. In: https://gobamberg.de/ . Retrieved December 15, 2018 .
- ^ Eva Schurr: Hochzeitshaus , p. 56.
- ^ Eva Schurr: Hochzeitshaus, p. 14.
- ↑ Christian Porsch: Education, Beer and Eternal Covenant , p. 18.
- ^ Elisabeth Roth: University building wedding house . Pp. 43-46.
- ^ Agriculture (19th / 20th century). In: https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Hauptseite . Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
- ^ Elisabeth Roth: University building wedding house . Pp. 46-47.
- ^ Elisabeth Roth: University building, wedding house, p. 30.
- ^ Elisabeth Roth: University building, wedding house, p. 27.