Imhofhaus

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Photo of Carl Jochner's Imhof house (around 1862)
The Imhofhaus in the bird's eye view plan from 1521. To the left the Königsturm .

The Imhofhaus was a castle-like city ​​palace in downtown Augsburg . Erected at the beginning of the 16th century in the Renaissance style at the intersection of Karolinenstrasse and Obstmarkt (Litera D 83), it served two patrician families as a representative residence until it was demolished .

history

In 1487, Christoph Eggenberger († 1520), son of the Graz mint master Balthasar Eggenberg (er) , acquired Augsburg citizenship by marrying a daughter of the mayor Leonhard Langenmantel von Radau and founded a branch of the family here. In that year they received two neighboring farms on the southern edge of the cathedral city from the Langenmantelschen family estate . Between 1509 and 1510 the two old farmsteads were then combined to form a new building with a castle-like appearance.

In the 17th century the Eggenberger family went out and the property became the property of the Imhof patrician family . The exact date of the change of ownership is not known, but the first written evidence of the Imhof family comes from 1683. In 1862 the entrepreneur Ludwig August Riedinger bought the Imhofhaus and shortly afterwards had a new residential building ( Riedingerhaus ) built in its place .

architecture

Due to its towering facade to the south and east, the house formed a visual termination point of the imperial city north-south axis and at the same time separated (similar to the former Schwalbeneckor ) the episcopal city in the north from the citizen city in the south. The castle-like appearance was characterized in particular by the corner tower and the attached battlements. When looking at the Imhofhaus, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl was even reminded of the city castles of the great families of Northern Italy.

literature

  • Günther Grünsteudel et al. (Ed.): Augsburger Stadtlexikon . 2nd Edition. Perlach-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-922769-28-4 , p. 528 .
  • Astrid Kritter: Augsburg in early photographs 1860–1914 . Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-921375-38-X , p. 98-99 .
  • Gabriele von Trauchburg: Houses and gardens of Augsburg patricians . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2001, ISBN 3-422-06306-4 , pp. 72-73 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Eggenbergs in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon ( Memento from January 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Wilhelm Heinrich von Riehl: Culturstudien . 1857, Retrieved December 28, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 51.1 ″  E