Kramer Guild (Memmingen)

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North side of the Kramer Guild

The house of the Kramerzunft in Memmingen in Upper Swabia is a listed building from the 15th century. This is where the meeting of the rebellious peasants in the German Peasants' War took place, in which they laid down their demands in the Twelve Articles and the Federal Order. The action of the peasants is considered to be the first constituent assembly on German soil and one of the earliest declarations of human rights. The house has the addresses Weinmarkt 15 and Kreuzstraße 15.

location

The house is in the traffic-calmed area of ​​the old town of Memmingen. The north side faces the Weinmarkt, the south side faces Kreuzstrasse. In the west, the house delimits the Roßmarkt to the east. The Memminger Aach , which is called the Stadtbach within the city walls, runs directly on the west side .

history

The house was owned by the artist Ivo Strigel from 1462 to 1478 . From 1479 it belonged to the Kramer Guild . In 1512 she had a large hall set up on the second floor. The city of Memmingen made the house available to the Upper Swabian farmers as a meeting place in 1525. There they articulated the Twelve Articles and the Federal Order. After the guilds were abolished in 1803, the house was privately owned and was converted and used for residential and business purposes. In the 21st century, the district trade association Memmingen acquired the building and renovated it. For this renovation, the Memmingen-Mindelheimn District Craftsmen's Association was awarded the Monument Protection Medal of the Free State of Bavaria in 2008 . There are retail outlets on the ground floor, the upper floors are used by the district tradesmen.

Building description

The core of the three-storey house is from the 15th century. It stands free on three sides and has a gable roof . The lower two floors on the west side are combined by five arched panels. Behind it is a passage with arched openings to the city stream. The north side shows a modern picture of the farmers' assembly.

On the second floor there is a large hall with profiled strips on the ceiling, which are connected at the ends with fish bubble motifs . The gussets of the flat ceiling are decorated with flat carvings in the form of tendrils. The wall paneling dates from the 20th century. The door has a richly carved frame with laterally into pinnacles expiring services . There are keel arches and tracery above the lintel. A wall projection on the south side of the hall bears a wall painting from around 1512 with strong tendrils, flowers and a blossom with a half-length figure. The southern part of the second floor consists of a modern divided hall with a wooden ceiling on octagonal wooden pillars.

Web links

Commons : Kramerzunft  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Blickle : From serfdom to human rights. A history of freedom in Germany. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50768-9 , p. 90.
  2. ↑ Monument Protection Medal . In: Deutsche Handwerkszeitung. 2008, accessed October 4, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 4.21 "  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 51.11"  E