Kirchstrasse 8 (Bad Honnef)

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Kirchstrasse 8 (2014)

The Kirchstrasse 8 building is a residential and commercial building in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is one of the oldest Honnef town houses and stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

According to an inscription on the gable which was added later (after 1878) , the oldest in Honnef, the house dates back to 1549. It was possibly created for Carell Francoit, a judge and rent master of the Löwenburg office who was attested for 1561 . Since 1680 it has been proven to have been the home of the local court clerk , who sold it to his successor in 1683. From this time it is known that the Cologne elector stayed in Honnef to hunt wild boar in the upper hall of the house, which was consequently named "Elector's Room".

In the pillage Honnef by French troops in 1689, the building was probably down to the ground destroyed and then rebuilt as a stone house. Since that time it has also been known under the name "Steinerner Strunk" or "Im steinernen Strunk" ( stump = tree stump ) due to a tree trunk serving as a stair post . Around 1800 the property from the estate of the clerk's family was sold to commercial operators and subsequently served mainly craft businesses. Since 1966 it has been used as a shop for an art shop, under which some interior renovations were made. The building was entered in Bad Honnef's list of monuments on March 2, 1994.

architecture

The house is a slate-roofed solid building with a half-timbered gable and has a modern ground floor. The special features inside include a baroque , floral stuccoed Cologne ceiling and a Bergisch spiral staircase , which is one of the oldest in the Rhineland and whose stair post is a 14 m high oak trunk. The ground floor is equipped with leaded glass windows showing craft motifs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 199
  2. ^ State Conservator Rhineland: Bad Honnef - Urban Development and Urban Structure. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0414-5 , p. 73.
  3. ^ A b c Roswitha Oschmann: Comfortable quarters for the elector. In: General-Anzeiger . October 13, 2012.
  4. ^ A b Heinz Firmenich (revised by Karl Günter Werber ): City of Bad Honnef (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz : Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 12). 3rd, revised edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-541-1 , p. 20.
  5. ^ A b Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition, Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 25.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 40.6 ″  E