Koenigsbronner Hof

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Koenigsbronner Hof

The Königsbronner Hof was the nursing court of the Cistercian monastery Königsbronn in the imperial city of Reutlingen . The building is located at Oberamteistraße 22, Rebentalstraße 9-13 and dates back to 1537 and essentially goes back to a stone residential tower built in the 13th century, the owner and residents of which are unknown at the time. Today the building houses the Reutlingen local history museum .

Location and surroundings

Today's Rebentalstraße and part of the Kanzleistraße between Reutlinger Marktplatz and Oberamteistraße were called “Judengasse” in the Middle Ages.

Building description

Stone house construction; Client unknown (1278)

The core building was built in 1278. The construction time could be determined using walled-in scaffolding timber. The wood came from winter felling in the years 1277/78. The builder and owner of the stone house are unknown. There is no documentary evidence that the stone house built there in 1278 was actually used as a rectory back then.

Half-timbered extension and reconstruction by Abbot Melchior (1537)

It is not known exactly when the stone house with an unknown prehistory came to the monastery.

In 1537 an extension was built by Abbot Melchior von Königsbronn as a three-storey half-timbered building. This created a room on the first and second floors on the northeast corner. In the ground floor of the stone house , a small chapel room with a ribbed vault was created as a chapel for the abbot. The owner of the building "dis present [en] house [es] spampt des newen gewlbs" is abbot Melchior Ruoff, according to the inscription on the wall of the so-called chapel. The stonemason's marks come from the Reutlingen master builder Hans Huber. The old stone house was also called the tower.

Conversions under Württemberg (from 1588)

In 1588 Austria gave up its claims to patronage over the Königsbronn monastery and the monastery was closed. So Württemberg became the new master of the former monastery.

Around 1600, Württemberg had an open hall built on the second floor with four pillars in the central axis. The building was now called "Old Lower Stone House" when the roof structure was redesigned in 1604/05. Around 1630, the building was considered "a high house" , which was located on a large square in the middle of the city and was surrounded by a wall. The stone house is described as a high residential tower made entirely of stone in which the abbot lived. From 1741 to 1743 a new three-story roof structure was erected over both parts of the building, based on plans by the princely master builder Meyer. In 1807 the house was designated as an upper office building.

Private and municipal property (from 1876)

In 1876 the Oberamt was relocated and the building became private property. In 1904 the buildings were acquired by the city of Reutlingen, which had them renovated by city master builder Carl Haid.

Modifications in the Third Reich (from 1938)

The originally preserved wooden fixtures were completely removed during the Nazi era in 1938/39, including the originally preserved large vaulted cellar. In 1939 the city history collection was moved to the stone house with half-timbered construction, which has served as the Reutlingen local history museum ever since .

literature

  • Oberamtsbeschreibung, 1893, II, 50 ff.
  • Former nursing home of the Cistercian monastery in Königsbronn, Oberamteistraße 22, Rebentalstraße 9–13. In: Alois Schneider, Dorothee Ade-Rademacher, Annegret Kotzurek: Reutlingen (= Archaeological City Register of Baden-Württemberg. Vol. 23). Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-927714-70-4 , pp. 159–160.
  • Karl Keim: From the Königsbronn monastery and his court in Reutlingen. In: Our home. Supplement to the Reutlinger Generalanzeiger, November 1978.
  • Julius Amann: The Königsbronner Hof in Reutlingen. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter. (Old series) Vol. 45, 1938, ISSN  0486-5901 , pp. 1-6.
  • 400 years of the Königsbronner Hof. Restoring the old look. Thorough renovation inside. In: Reutlinger Generalanzeiger , from April 22, 1937, ZDB -ID 126415-1 .
  • Theodor Schön: The monastery courtyards in the imperial city of Reutlingen. In: Diöcesanarchiv von Schwaben. Vol. 15, 1897, ZDB -ID 212543-2 , pp. 60 ff., 108 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reutlinger Generalanzeiger of April 22, 1937
  2. ↑ Schneider / Ade-Rademacher, p. 159: "History of ownership and use of the stone house ... unknown."
  3. ↑ Schneider / Ade-Rademacher, p. 64: "The fact that the three-storey stone house built there in 1278 actually served as a parsonage back then has not been documented."
  4. ↑ Schneider / Ade-Rademacher, p. 159
  5. ↑ Schneider / Ade-Rademacher, p. 159: “Like a thurn, raicht Hoh up. Dz was Apts made before times. From stain erbawt to Unders dach ”.

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '24.9 "  N , 9 ° 12' 41.6"  E