Killingerhaus
The Killingerhaus at König-Adolf-Platz 7 is one of the outstanding half-timbered houses in Idstein's old town, which is a listed building . Like the Union Church and the Höerhof, it bears the international trademark for the marking of cultural property according to the Hague Convention . It bears witness to the boom and boom in bourgeois urban life shortly before the Thirty Years' War .
description
The Killingerhaus is a three-storey town house with a magnificent gable front in a central location on König-Adolf-Platz. The facade is dominated by an octagonal bay window with a tail gable that extends over both half-timbered upper floors and protrudes on a bundle of struts above the massive ground floor, which repeats the shape of the main gable. Franconian bay windows frame the windows on the upper floors and, like the corner posts, are adorned with rich carving, which combines numerous decorative motifs typical of the Renaissance such as columns, tendrils, candelabra and masked consoles. The latter appear in a similar physiognomy in other buildings such as the Höerhof . The half-timbered timber also shows ornamental shapes, especially in the parapet areas of the second floor and gable; however, the impression is primarily determined by the entire surface of the building elements treated as reliefs - parapets of the first floor and gable fields. The gable ends vary the theme of double fish bodies with human heads. Coats of arms can be found on the first floor, as well as symbolic representations of griffin, ostrich with horseshoe, phoenix and the double-headed eagle. The inscription "Deo avspice io.conradvs killingivs Anna Margareta Loberin conivges has aedes exstruxervnt 1615" (translated: "Under God's protection, the spouses Io (hann) Conradus Killingius and Anna Margareta Loeberin built this house from scratch in 1615") attests among other things the age of the house.
history
The Killingerhaus was built in 1615 by the clerk Johann Conrad Killing († 1630) and his wife Anna Margarethe Loeber, daughter of the Nassau bailiff in Bad Ems . There is a local rumor that the house once stood in Strasbourg , where it was dismantled and then rebuilt in Idstein. However, this rumor is not true. The Killing couple remained childless. This is one of the reasons why the house has had new owners over the centuries. It can be proven that the employer Killings, Count Ludwig II. , Sent timber to his clerk.
In 1905 there was a bakery on the ground floor. Apartments were set up on the upper floors.
In 1911 the three-winged "Franconian Bay Window" was removed from the Killingerhaus. He finds himself ever since the bay porch of the second floor Höerhofs again.
In 1916 the city of Idstein acquired the building. After the Second World War , the building housed the city library and the police station until 1969.
Between 1981 and 1984 the building was extensively renovated and restored and the attic was expanded. Since this restoration, the house has been used by the tourist office and since 1987 by the local history museum. In the course of this, the interior of the building was thoroughly modernized. Until the end of 2010 there was an exhibition of Ernst Toepfer's works here . Since 2015 there has been a permanent exhibition on Ernst Töpfer in the Idstein City Museum in the Killingerhaus, in which works by the painter are shown in a changing arrangement under the motto Toepfer - At eye level on two walls .
literature
- The half-timbered building in Germany , Ulrich Großmann
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Half-timbered at its finest - Idsteiner Zeitung from November 26th 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Claudia Niemann: The Killingerhaus was built in Idstein 400 years ago. In: wiesbadener-kurier.de. October 17, 2015, accessed December 17, 2015 .
- ^ At eye level with Ernst Toepfer in FAZ of February 4, 2015, page 38
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 16 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 10.3 ″ E