Kirchgasse 2 (Coburg)
The residential and commercial building at Kirchgasse 2 in Coburg is located between the market square and the churchyard in one of the oldest city quarters. The listed four-storey building with a hip roof corner facing Kirchgasse , in which mostly craftsmen families lived, dates back to the 14th century .
history
The house at Kirchgasse 2 and the neighboring house at Kirchgasse 4, which was demolished in 1962 after a fire, were originally a semi-detached house . The roof structure of Kirchgasse 2 was dendrochronologically dated to the year 1384/1385. It first appeared in the town book in 1399 . The painter Lucas Cranach the Elder is said to have lived here from 1508 to 1511. Mostly craftsmen families lived in the building, the ground floor of which was used as a workshop and shop. The first floor served as a one-room apartment with kitchen, the second floor and the roof as storage.
In the 18th century there was an increase by adding another half-timbered floor to the roof. During the same period, the double-winged arched entrance portal with a profile frame and a console-shaped volute wedge was redesigned. In 1882, the master locksmith Ferdinand Schilling had a shop built on the ground floor, the entrance door of which replaced the middle of the previous three windows on Steingasse. In 1925 the right window on Steingasse was converted into another house entrance door and in 1952 the sandstone and half-timbered facade was exposed. In 2018, the tower-like building was repaired. In particular, the roof structure was statically secured and the roof was re-covered with historic Coburg gutter tiles , which were only produced in the Esbach brickworks until around 1890 .
architecture
The late Gothic sandstone block building with a cellar and two stone floors originally had an Alemannic half-timbered upper floor and a saddle roof truss . The stone block base consists of precisely machined, but irregularly offset blocks. The windows on the first floor, two facing Kirchgasse and two facing Steingasse, are arranged irregularly.
In the second third of the 18th century, the medieval roof structure became a tails roof by two truss upper floors in the front region baroque overmolded. This caused damage and deformation to the roof structure. The tile-covered roof construction is a steep roof with a slope of around 60 degrees to the east and west, which has a hip surface sloping to the north. It has a wingspan of about 10.2 meters, a length of 7.0 meters and a height of 9.2 meters.
The façade of the two lower floors is inclined to Steingasse and probably follows the course of the medieval street, while the later added half-timbered upper floors are adapted to the straight line of buildings of the 18th century. The different design of the two half-timbered storeys in terms of type and angle of inclination suggests two construction phases. While the half-timbering on the second floor on the east side uses standing man figures alternating between narrower and stronger stands, on the third floor almost square compartments determine the structure. The half-timbering, which rests directly on the top of the wall, is supported by two lugs on the sloping northeast corner .
Inside the house, a square cellar with barrel vaults , a smoke kitchen and a stucco ceiling on the first floor have been preserved.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV.48 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 184 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Saskia Hilski: The development of the roof structures in the city of Coburg up to the 30 Years War. In: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 60 (2016), p. 98 f.
- ↑ a b c Svenja Brüggemann: To the last brick - In restauro: Das Coburger Handwerkerhaus , In: Monuments , edition 6/2019, p. 30/31.
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '28.4 " N , 10 ° 57' 55.4" E