Kageneck's house

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The Kageneck house

The Kageneck'sche house , the house "Zum Wilden Mann" in Freiburg in the Salzstrasse , corner of Drehergasse has the address Salzstrasse 1 (formerly No. 5).

The building is a cultural monument according to § 2 DSchG (building).

The three-storey gable roof building with stepped gables has arcades with five arches on the high ground floor .

The building was first mentioned in 1460, evidence that it was owned by the Schnewlin von Landeck family in the 16th century .

After that it was an inn owned by the Mayer family. The President of the Austrian Court Chamber and former Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order Johann Heinrich von Kageneck (1668–1743) acquired it in 1726 as a retirement home from the widow of the Baden governor Franz Ernst von Olisy zu Mahlberg and sold his parents' house (Haus zum Vogelsang, Salzstrasse No. 12). Kageneck had it rebuilt in the baroque style.

Countess Maria Beatrix von Kageneck, the mother of Prince Metternich , was born here on December 8, 1755 . From May 4 to 6, 1770, Marie Antoinette's house served as an apartment on her bridal trip . It was there that she held her official receptions.

The Kageneck house was destroyed in the Second World War during Operation Tigerfish in 1944 and rebuilt from 1949 to 1951 by the architect Gregor Schroeder (1906–1976) in a historicizing form and based on the old architecture.

On the ground floor there is a branch of the high-speed restaurant chain Nordsee (restaurant chain) and a cafe with sweets from the Kaufhof chain.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Brommer : Johann Heinrich Hermann Reichsfreiherr von Kageneck (1668–1743). On the 250th anniversary of the death of the Teutonic Order Landkomtur - a supplement to the biography. in: Schau-ins-Land: Annual issue of the Breisgau-Geschichtsverein Schauinsland , Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, p. 77, digitized
  2. ↑ Historical site analysis of the entire Freiburg im Breisgau complex , Alexandra Baier, urban planning historian , City of Freiburg i. Br. & State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council, 2017
  3. ↑ Freiburg City Archives, F Talvogtei Specialia XV Zinken und Einzelhoefe (PDF; 16 kB)

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 1.5 ″  E