Shopkeeper House (Koblenz)
The Kramerzunfthaus was the guild house of the shopkeeper and the seat of municipal Mehlwaage in the old town of Koblenz .
history
A first building was built on this site in 1582 by the Krämergesellschaft. The hall building, into which one could drive with a car, stood against the city wall . This first guild building was destroyed in the devastating bombing during the siege of the city of Koblenz by French troops in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1688 .
As a replacement for the destroyed building, the building that still exists today was erected between 1708 and 1709, which at the same time also served as the municipal flour scale, which was housed in the vaulted ground floor. In 1718 the guild and flour trade obligation was lifted. The building came into the possession of the city of Koblenz in 1824 and then served a variety of purposes, first as a municipal trade school, a forerunner of the Eichendorff grammar school , then as the seat of the city archive and city library .
During the Second World War , the shopkeeper's guild house was badly damaged in the air raids on Koblenz . The reconstruction in the old style was carried out in 1951 by Johannes Baptist and Fritz Heitger, which is reminiscent of an inscription on the bay window. Heitger attached the relief The good old days to an extension of the shopkeeper's guild house, but later removed it again when the house changed hands and placed it near its old location.
construction
The elongated, two-story guild house has five axes. The basalt-framed windows are in two and three parts on the upper floor and barred on the ground floor. Iron anchors with the year 1709 are located above the segment-arched entrance on the Danne. There is a round-arched cellar entrance with an oval window on Kornpfortstrasse. Above it is a rectangular bay with the almost fully three-dimensional niche figures of the Archangel Michael with a dragon, the Mother of God , Justitia and an angel with Tobias and fish. The hipped roof was built during the reconstruction in the late Gothic and Renaissance styles . The shopkeeper's guild house forms a counterpart to the Dreikönigenhaus opposite to the old town .
Monument protection
The shopkeeper is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and registered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in the old town monument zone .
The shopkeeper has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
- Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The profane monuments and the suburbs , Munich Berlin 1954, pp. 176–180 (The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate first volume).
- Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate Volume 3.2. City of Koblenz. City center , edited by Herbert Dellwing and Reinhard Kallenbach, Speyer 2004, p. 164. ISBN 3-88462-198-X
- City of Koblenz: Koblenz historic old town: Dreikönigenhaus, Haus Metternich. Documentation on the reconstruction after the partial destruction in the war in 1944, Koblenz 1977
Web links
- Shopkeeper in: regionalgeschichte.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.3 MB), Koblenz 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 42.7 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 53" E