Hotel Strauss (Bad Mergentheim)
The Hotel Ostrich , also known as the Gasthof zum Ostrich , was a hotel on the market square of Bad Mergentheim . The half-timbered house at Marktplatz 10, in which it was last located, has been preserved and is a listed building , but has undergone major changes.
history
An inn "Zum Vogel", which belonged to a host family called Vogel, is already occupied for 1552 and apparently existed for several generations of owners. In 1717 it was called "Erbschenke zum Vogel", in 1720 it was renamed and now run as the "Zum Vogel Strauss" inn. The inn was moved to the house on the market square in 1800.
The new domicile of the inn probably dates at least partly from the 17th century; an inscription stone that is built into it and bears the year 1557 is likely to come from a previous building, perhaps a medieval residential tower of the local nobility. In 1660 this house belonged to the council clerk Volprecht Reimer. In the neighborhood, two houses to the left, the Chancellor of the Teutonic Order Sebastian Poth lived in a building that is now known as the "Bierhalshaus". In 1660 Reimer and Poth exchanged their houses for reasons no longer known today. Sebastian Poth died in 1667 and bequeathed the inn to his relative Johann Jacob Poth. A later owner then sold the building for 9,000 guilders to the then ostrich landlord Anton Kobler or Kober, who until then had operated his inn in the Sambethschen Eckhaus (Burgstrasse 1) and, with the approval of the high and German masters' government, now has the ostrich sign on the new acquired property. The inn enjoyed a good reputation in the early 19th century: in 1812, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Württemberg stayed at the inn on his way to Russia. In 1836 the inn was in the hands of a Mr. Fleck.
In 1877 the inn was run by the tenant Joseph Lüllig, whose son Carl was born in this house at the time. Carl Lüllig, however, had no gastronomic ambitions, but became mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd . After he was ousted from office by the National Socialists in 1934 , he returned to Mergentheim and started researching local history. The "ostrich" had meanwhile been sold to Joseph Sturm, who in 1894 had paid 40,000 marks for the inn. In the 1920s, the half-timbering of the previously plastered house was exposed. Finally, Sturm's son converted the house into a hotel. This redesign fell victim to the hall of the house, previously popular with clubs and the military and the venue for numerous celebrations such as the rat ball of the town music.
In 1945 the hotel became the seat of the American military administration. The hotel was later extensively renovated; this work was completed in 1956. But in 1966 the concession for the hotel was canceled. The “Ostrich” stood empty for ten years before it was converted or rebuilt for use by the Volksbank. This should move in December 1977.
The old pub cantilever has been preserved in a modified form. If it once carried an ostrich , it now shows the V of the Volksbank. In its original form, Margarete Baur-Heinold dates it to the early 19th century. "Spirals, rocailles and tendrils are no longer intertwined to form rich support arms, clear lines draw to the head of the griffin and the space in between is filled with rigid meanders and strict rosettes", can be read in a description of the ostrich arm.
The historical site analysis of Bad Mergentheim certifies that the building, despite the changes that were made to it, was “a good testimony to the high design standards of the 16th century. As part of the closed, historical development on the edge of the square, it is also "of great importance for the historical appearance" of the Bad Mergentheim market square. The gable, three-storey house has a solidly bricked ground floor, while the slightly cantilevered upper storeys were built in half-timbered construction. Two floor levels and a loft found under the gable roof with Schopfwalm place. On the eastern gable facade, the building has ornamental frameworks with curved St. Andrew's crosses, diamond motifs, carved corner posts and drilled window frames.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Mergentheimer's lost hospitality. Episode 3. Gasthof zum Ostrich on www.stadtbild-mergentheim.de
- ↑ Motto on the Open Monument Day "Power and Splendor". The forgotten legacy of the religious era in sight at www.stadtbild-mergentheim.de
- ↑ Württemberg as it was and is , Stuttgart o. J. (1868), p. 261 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ Jacob Ritter von Roeser: Diary of my trip to Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Syria. First volume , Mergentheim 1836, p. 19-IA6 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ Margarete Baur-Heinold, Forged Iron. From the Middle Ages to around 1900 , Königstein 1963, p. 15 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ^ Markus Numberger, Bad Mergentheim. Main-Tauber district. Historical site analysis , October 2012 ( digitized version )
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 26.3 " N , 9 ° 46 ′ 22.3" E