Judengasse 54 (Coburg)
The house Judengasse 54 in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg is a representative Art Nouveau building that was built in 1903 and is listed as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
The house of coal merchant Christian Heß, built in 1866, was badly damaged by the floods of the Itz and replaced in 1903 by a house built by master mason Paul Schaarschmidt in the historicizing Art Nouveau style. The trained masseur Peter Eichmüller from Stöppach bought the apartment building in which he also lived and ran Eichmüller's medical and perfumery store with an attached hairdressing salon on the ground floor, which had previously been located at Viktoriastraße 9 since 1889. In particular through the Ernst-Alexandrinen-Volksbad, which opened in the neighborhood in 1907business flourished. After Peter Eichmüller died in 1930, his wife Julie and their daughter Frieda Stöckel continued to run the medical and perfumery business. Granddaughter Gerda Buschbacher took over the management of the business in 1943 until her death in 1956. The hairdressing salon was leased after 1930, and later an electronics store and a cooking studio were located in the shop. A hairdresser has been working in the Art Nouveau rooms again since 2008. In the interior design, the detailed stucco ceiling and Art Nouveau glazing came into their own again.
architecture
The floor plan of the house corresponds to the trapezoidal layout of the property with a narrow gable end facing Judengasse / Viktoriastraße. The ground floor, designed with embossed ashlars, contrasts with the sandstone structures of the brick upper floors. The important structural elements of the three-storey building are located on the gable and the right long side facing Viktoriastraße. A slender, polygonal corner bay with a lantern and a bay foot above the ornate corner entrance emphasizes the narrow left side. The pointed roofing of the windows on the first floor can also be found in the bay window, the shingled second floor optically belongs to the attic. In contrast to the facade on the left, the gable field has arched windows. The long right side is dominated by a central, biaxial, richly ornamented box oriel, which rises over two floors and rests on consoles above a shop window. Its parapets are adorned with dense vegetal decorations. The steep gable roof is dominated by a pointed gable of the dwelling up to the height of the main ridge. The wedges of the ground floor windows bear the emblems of the Order of the Garter and the hairdressing trade, which points to Peter Eichmüller's hairdressing salon. Another steep gable with a decorative window protrudes on the left long side from the mansard roof there, also up to the main ridge line. Two portals, each flanked by two shop windows, determine the appearance of the first floor. In all four openings there are round-arched double windows covered by a segmental arch, elaborately ornamented with figurative and vegetal ornamentation. The old, partially preserved Art Nouveau glazing was restored in 1984–1986; In 1993 the roof was repaired and the facade renovated.
literature
- Christian Boseckert: A street tells the story of Coburg - from the past of Judengasse and its residents . Volume 22 of the series of publications of the historical society Coburg eV, Coburg 2008, ISBN 3-9810350-4-6 .
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV.48 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 156-157 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 34 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 36 ″ E