Kameleck

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Rottweil, Kameleck built 13./14. century

The Kameleck is one of the oldest houses in Rottweil , the district town of the Rottweil district . In an exposed location at the Rottweiler street cross, the building, built in the 14th century, characterizes the cityscape in Hauptstrasse (Hauptstrasse 41). Its south facade is oriented towards Friedrichsplatz. It belongs to the Holy Cross site. In keeping with its location, it was used as a department store or trading house from the 16th century and as an inn from 1789 to 1936.

History of the building

The corner house was allegedly after 1321 from the estate of the knight Burkard of Triberg indicate the order of the Rottweiler hospital a foundation for needy children Better internal endowed. The roof of the building was erected in 1394/1395.

It has been used as a trading house since 1580. The trade mark of the textile merchant Johann Georg Gerni (around 1680) reminds of this on the south side. The man-high sign, flanked by two striding lions, shows a trademark of the tradesman Johann Michael Gerni, who moved to Rottweil in the middle of the 17th century and began there as a “shopkeeper”. In 1789 the house became “Zum Kamel”. It remained associated with a brewery until 1907. The brewing star in the westernmost bay of the first floor points to the brewing tradition. They were made by the Rottweiler sculptor and larvae carver German Burry (1853–1933). In 1903 the impetus to revive the fool's guild came here. The last “hosted” in the narrower sense was in this house in 1936, although a bakery with a café on the ground floor now offers the opportunity to stop for a break.

The house has a deep vaulted cellar.

literature

  • Winfried Hecht: The "advertising system" of a historic Rottweiler trading house . In: Rottweiler Heimatblätter . 53rd year, no. 6 , 1992, pp. 1-2 .
  • Jürgen Leichtle / Werner Wittmann (eds.): The camel corner in Rottweil. Contributions to the history of a house . Rottweil 1993.
  • Hartwig Ebert / Winfried Hecht: Cultural monuments in Rottweil . 2nd Edition. Rottweil 1997, ISBN 3-9800632-5-9 , pp. 42-43 .
  • Dorothee Ade-Rademacher, Winfried Hecht, Marianne Dumitrache and others: Rottweil . In: Regional Council Stuttgart, State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Archaeological City Cadastre Baden-Württemberg . tape 30 , 2005, ISBN 3-927714-84-4 , pp. 30, 123, 243 f .

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