Kathanhaus

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The Kathan House

The Kathanhaus (also spelled Kathan-Haus ) is a town house in downtown Augsburg at Kapuzinergasse 10. The building, which originates from the 17th century, stands out due to its splendid rococo facade painting. It is a protected architectural monument in the Augsburg city center, St. Ulrich Cathedral .

In the Rococo, this type of facade painting was characteristic of Augsburg. The Kathanhaus is one of the few examples that have survived to this day and is therefore often shown during city tours. It gives an idea of ​​what the painted houses of the 18th century in Augsburg might have looked like. However, the painting is no longer original.

location

Several streets span between Konrad-Adenauer-Allee and Maximilianstrasse . Kapuzinergasse - named after the Capuchin monastery of St. Franziskus and Blessed Gualfardus - is one of them, and the Kathanhaus is located roughly in the middle of Kapuzinergasse. Kapuzinergasse is not exactly straight, but makes a double bend. When you have reached the first kink coming from Maximilianstrasse, the Kathanhaus becomes visible, which is located at the second kink at the end of this street section. The house is not free, but in contact with its neighboring houses (Kapuzinergasse 8 and 12).

description

The building has two three-storey wings at right angles to one another, like a mirror-inverted L. It has a hipped roof with dormers. There is an arched gateway to the street. In the west there is a two-storey back side with a half-timbered saddle and elevator gable.

The rich facade painting from around 1750 not only adorns the street side of the building, but also includes three sides, including the garden side. The pictures show religious and allegorical themes.

The rear building, a two-story hipped roof building, also belongs to the monument.

history

The exact date of its construction is unknown. According to the Augsburg land register, Johann Franz Fugger-Kirchberg owned the town house until 1656. After him it was owned by the "Leopold Fugger caretaker" Hans Geiger and his heirs, from 1683 the shoemaker Hans Frank, from 1687 the carpenter Tobias Haldenwanger and from 1695 the merchant Anton Eckart.

The wealthy and art-loving merchant Johann Baptist Schger and his family were the house owners between 1730 and 1770. During this time the building received its splendid facade painting. The painter is and the exact year of painting are unknown. However, Schger had previously commissioned the rococo painter Johann Georg Bergmüller , who specializes in frescoes , to paint his other house at Maximilianstrasse 65 (formerly the “Zur Goldenen Krone” inn). It is possible that Bergmüller painted this house too.

In 1847 the house came into the possession of the merchant, colored and gold paper manufacturer Peter Kathan. It bears his name after him to this day. The subsequent owners are not named here.

In 1902 the painter August Brandes made traces of all three painted façade sides.

In 1946, during an inventory of the Augsburg buildings after the World War II, it was found that a larger piece of plaster on the street side had already fallen off and further parts threatened to follow suit.

In the years 1960–1961, the facade painting was "restored" by the artist Ludwig Magnus Holler from Marktoberdorf. In a blatant violation of today's model of “ preservation of the original substance”, striving for a perfectionist show value, the original substance was completely replaced by a new one.

Most recently, the entrepreneur Heinz Greiffenberger acquired the building and had it extensively and carefully renovated. He was awarded the State Medal for Monument Protection of the Bavarian State Government , first prizes from the Hypokulturstiftung and the Swabian District, and the Friedrich Prince Fund (Augsburg Facade Prize). The restoration of the facades was carried out by the painter and restorer Franz Kugelmann from Kleinaitingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Baedeker: Baedekers Augsburg: City Guide . Baedeker, 1982, p. 16 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Josef Strasser, Achim Riether: Johann Georg Bergmüller 1688 - 1762 . Salzburg Baroque Museum, 2004, ISBN 978-3-901925-29-0 , p. 33 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ^ Joseph Liegl: Art trip through Bavaria: between the Danube and the Alps . Berg, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7634-0537-4 , p. 28 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Theodor Herberger: The industry of Augsburg: with consideration for the polytechnical school . Lampart, 1862, 32 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Margarete Baur-Heinhold: Painted facades: history, role model, technology, renewal . Callwey, 1975, ISBN 978-3-7667-0330-9 , p. 77 ( books.google.de ).
  6. ^ Gregor Nagler: The reconstruction of Augsburg after the destruction in World War II (dissertation) . Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Architecture, Chair of Architectural History, May 22, 2015, p. 161 ( mediatum.ub.tum.de [PDF]).
  7. ^ Tilmann Breuer, Helga Schmidt-Glassner: Augsburg . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1966, p. 43 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ^ Marion Wohlleben: Mineral colors: Contributions to the history and restoration of facade paintings and coatings . vdf Hochschulverlag AG, 1998, ISBN 978-3-7281-2651-1 , p. 66 ( books.google.de ).
  9. ^ The new Mount of Olives fresco in the old cemetery in Landsberg by Franz Kugelmann . In: landsberger history sheets . tape 106 . Historischer Verein Landsberg, 2007, p. 95 .

Web links

Commons : Kathanhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '49.1 "  N , 10 ° 53' 52.9"  E