Hof zum Homberg
The Hof zum Homberg is a listed Mainz patrician building from the 13th century and has been part of the Kolping House Mainz since 1985 .
location
The Hof zum Homberg is located in Kappelhofgasse , house number 8, in the old town of Mainz in the vicinity of the Leininger Hof . Although the large courtyard gate in Kappelhofgasse forms the historic main entrance, the complex can generally only be reached via the entrance to the Kolping House at Holzstrasse 19.
description
Two parallel gabled buildings around an inner courtyard, the street-side closure to Kappelhofgasse forms a courtyard wall with an archway. Octagonal stair tower, a pointed arched sandstone gate from the time before 1350, a cantilever portal from the second half of the 16th century and a coat of arms stone from 1665.
history
Origins
The patrician family of the zum Homberg (different spelling Humbrecht and Heimbrecht) probably built the property in the 13th century. The family emigrated to Frankfurt am Main in 1419 or 1420 , the courtyard and building were transferred to the cathedral scholaster Volpert von Ders in 1465 by Archbishop Elector Adolf II of Nassau . Other family members migrated to the Rheingau or to Le Havre (Alii alio).
In 1568 it was listed as the 'zum Hombergk im Cappelhof' house in the city register. After several changes of ownership, the property was transferred to the nearby St. Barbara Hospital in 1639.
Orphanage
In 1665, Provost Johann von Heppenheim, called vom Saal, acquired the Hof zum Homberg and dedicated it as an orphanage . At that time it was the first institute of its kind in the Electorate of Mainz . Large donations from the citizens of Mainz and the archbishops resulted in numerous renovations, extensions and modernizations until 1721.
In 1814 the farm was run by a newly founded civil hospice commission headed by the Mayor of Mainz, Franz Freiherr Gedult von Jungsfeld .
After the girls had already been moved to the Schwarzenbach house in St. Rochus in 1854, the male orphans (in 1921 there were 72 boys) had to move to the Rochusspital in 1922. The reasons were lack of space and the brothels established in Kappelhofgasse.
Reconstruction and current use
In the period that followed, the building was rented out by the city and was badly damaged by the bombings of World War II. The war ruins were then left to decay, only the outer walls of the west wing with the stair tower remained, the east wing was no longer habitable.
In 1977 the Kolping Family Mainz-Zentral eV acquired the entire ruin complex and opened the new Kolping House in 1985 after extensive and sometimes difficult reconstruction work (architects Georg Knapp and Hellmut Kanis) of the orphanage, the historic vaulted cellar and the late Gothic stair tower, including a neighboring modern new building on Holzstrasse Mainz . While the west wing only received structural additions, the east wing was completely new, but in the design language of the previous building. The wall and courtyard gate were reconstructed using a coat of arms with the inscription " Johann Philipp von Schönborn founded this institution in 1665".
Find of Roman ships
During the renovation work in April 1982, the remains of two barges from the 1st century AD were found. They were originally 20 m long, 3.70 m wide and had a side wall height of 90 cm inside, so-called flat ships, which were used as inland ships for heavy goods traffic. You are now in the Museum of Ancient Shipping .
After the discovery of the Roman ships from the 4th century in the winter of 1981/82 during the extension of the Mainz Hilton Hotel, this was the second time that boats from Roman times were discovered on the banks of the Mainz Rhine. The name of the restaurant Zum Römerschiff on the ground floor of the Kolping House in Holzstrasse is a reminder of this find.
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate: Informational directory of cultural monuments: Kreisfrei Stadt Mainz, p. 20 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- ^ History of the city of Mainz by Karl Anton Schaab , first volume, 1841 p. 481 u. a. books.google
- ↑ Karel Alois Vinařický, Joannes de Carro: Jean Gutenberg , A. Vandale, Brussels, 1847, p. 11 books.google
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook of the Province of Rheinhessen , Verlag von Zabern, 1825, p. 332
- ^ Carl Zuckmayer: The carnival confession . Fackelverlag Olten, Stuttgart, Salzburg, 1959
- ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz of April 27, 2010, kitchen service is included (only available online for subscribers)
See also
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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 48.9 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 36.2 ″ E