List of cultural monuments in Meiningen's old town

The list of cultural monuments in the Meiningen old town lists the cultural and architectural monuments of the historic old town of the district town of Meiningen in southern Thuringia . The old town consists of four districts and has around 3500 inhabitants.

A total of around 240 individual monuments , 16 monument ensembles , 8 ground monuments and 3 garden monuments are currently registered in Meiningen , of which there are around 70 individual monuments, 4 monument ensembles and 3 ground monuments in Meiningen's old town (as of February 2010). The registration of all monuments in the list of monuments of the Lower Monument Protection Authority in Meiningen has not yet been completed. The list does not claim to be complete.

Individual monuments

address	designation	description
On the upper wall 1	Fronveste	Neo-Gothic limestone building with crenellated surrounding wall, built from 1843 to 1845 as a city prison by August Wilhelm Döbner , today used as a restaurant and pub.
Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 1	Half-timbered commercial building	Town house from the 17th century with predominant St. Andrew's crosses , cellar with late medieval cross vaults , formerly a bakery, today a guesthouse and restaurant.
Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 12	Residential and commercial building	Plastered half-timbered building, demolished in 2017.
Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 39/41	Residential and commercial building	Wolfsschlucht: Solid residential building with the former “Wolfsschlucht” restaurant, architect Karl Behlert .
Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 43	Commercial building	Stone house , basement floor from the 14th century, upper floors from 1551 in the Renaissance style with caryatids and herms .
Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 45	Residential building	Former upper mill , grinding mill and generation of electrical energy, fed by the inner mill ditch at the Obertor, in operation from the beginning of the 14th century to 1925, existing building built in 1861–65 as a three-storey half-timbered building, restored in the 1990s.
Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 49	Residential and commercial building	Built in 1738 as a municipal fish house in front of the Upper Gate, from 1810 to 1867 military hospital, since then residential and commercial building.
Anton-Ulrich-Strasse 52	Residential building	Residential building called “Wasserburg”: built in 1817 including the → powder tower of the city fortifications as a city hospital, from 1829 seat of the district and city court.
Burggasse	Fountain	Easter fountain: built in 1909
Burggasse	City fortifications	Rest of the city walls
Burggasse 9	Community center	Erected in 1771 with a rococo portal, former home of the stenographer Friedrich Mosengeil , currently under restoration.
Burggasse 22	Half-timbered museum	Built in the 18th century, Rudolf Baumbach's house , today the “Baumbachhaus Literature Museum”.
Burggasse 26	Residential building
Eleonorenstrasse 1	Post office	Main post office, built in 1879 as the Imperial Post Office .
Eleonorenstrasse 3	Meininger Landtag	State Parliament building of Saxony-Meiningen, built in 1880 in the style of the Italian Neo-Renaissance by Erwin Theodor Döbner , from 1931 German Reichspost and Deutsche Post, today a commercial building.
Ernestinerstraße 2-4	Brewery	First mention of a municipal brewery in the place of number 2 in 1540, 1676 expansion to two breweries and malt - Darre , 1731 construction of the upper floor, 1948 merger with the number 4 on the linen factory Welton Meiningen , since 2007 remodeling and renovation to a residential and Commercial building complex. Completed in 2015 with the Meiningen tourist information office on the ground floor.
Ernestinerstraße 9	Commercial building	The Ernestiner Hof building ensemble , built in 1767 as a residential building, part of the Kavaliershaus building in the Rococo style under monument protection, since 1997 a hotel and café.
Ernestinerstraße 11	Residential and commercial building	Plastered half-timbered building with internal protected components
Ernestinerstraße 13	Residential and commercial building	Half-timbered house, formerly the seat of the woolen dyers' guild, built around 1600.
Ernestinerstraße 14	Half-timbered cultural building	Old post office : built around 1600, four-storey half-timbered house, at the beginning of the 20th century a post office for the city, today the hostel of the "Kunsthaus Meiningen".
Ernestinerstraße 19	Residential and commercial building	Art Nouveau building built around 1900
Ernestinerstraße 36	Residential and commercial building	Half-timbered house
Ernestinerstraße 38	Half-timbered library	Town house from the 17th century, restored between 1983 and 1987, seat of the city and district library " Anna Seghers " Meiningen.
Ernestinerstraße 40	Half-timbered hotel	"Rautenkranz": town house from the middle of the 16th century, once a pub with a dance hall, around 1900 half-timbered freed from external plaster, restored in 1998.
Ernestinerstrasse 49	Half-timbered residential building	Stately town house from the 16th century, probably the oldest half-timbered house in the city, around 1850 district court, restored from 1987 to 1989.
Ernestinerstraße 52	Residential and commercial building	Town house from the 19th century, inside a listed sales room of a former butcher's shop.
Friday Alley 2	Residential building	Half-timbered house with courtyard gate and ancillary building, structure not capable of renovation, demolished.
Georgstrasse / Karlsallee	Fountain	Goose man fountain from 1854, sandstone basin with bronze figure, several changes of location, in this place since 1991.
Georgstrasse 2	Community center	Henneberger Haus : Built in 1894/95 by Eduard Fritze as the seat of the Henneberg Antiquities Research Association Meiningen (HAV), since 1915 an inn and restaurant.
Georgstrasse 16	Fountain	Fish thief fountain: stone fountain basin with bronze figure by sculptor Adolf Trabert, installed in 1935.
Georgstrasse 18 Postgasse	Half-timbered house	Behind house: Town house from 1608 with stone basement and round arch, 1824-1844, a post office of Thurn and Taxis .
Georgstrasse 19	Commercial building	Former inn "Zum Goldenen Pflug" with a protected facade
Georgstrasse 20	Half-timbered residential building	Büchnersches Hinterhaus : Built in 1596 in the Hennebergisch-Franconian style by master baker Hans Müller, restored in 1904 by senior building officer Eduard Fritze, 1974 and 2001, oldest dated half-timbered building in the city.
Klostergasse 1	school	Built 1817–1821 as the “ Gymnasium Bernhardinum ”, today adult education center, architect: Johann Andreas Schaubach .
Klostergasse 3 50 ° 34 ′ 14 "N, 10 ° 24 ′ 55" E	Armory	Former main building of the 1239-1242 built Minorite , mid-19th century to the armory rebuilt.
market	Fountain monument	Heinrichsbrunnen : Erected in 1873, the fountain stick topped with the statue of Emperor Heinrich II.
market	church	Evangelical town church “Our dear women”: construction started around 1000, renovation 1884–1889, dominant styles: Romanesque, Gothic, Neo-Gothic.
Market 12	school	Former community school, built 1849–1851 by Friedrich Heinrich Blomeyer, from 1911 commercial college and from 1945 to 1981 commercial vocational school, since then a commercial building.
Mauergasse 8	Mill	Mittelmühle: Mill complex that has existed since the Middle Ages, partially demolished, reconstruction with integrated new buildings planned.
Mauergasse 22	church	Catholic parish church “Our dear woman” built 1967–1972 , architect: Armin Trautmann .
Mauergasse 26	tower	Powder Tower: the only remaining tower of the former city fortifications, built in 1672 with a defense platform and loopholes, once a storage place for gunpowder, conical roof and windows date from the 19th century, namesake for the adjacent Werraaue powder lawn .
Nun plan 3	Residential and commercial building	Nonnenhof: One of the oldest buildings in the city, verifiable from 1474, the place of residence of beguines , later an inn, currently vacant.
Nun plan 4	Residential building	Rassmannsche Haus: Half-timbered building from 1602 restored in 1997
Nun's plan 5	Commercial building	Former forge
Obere Kaplaneistrasse	Fountain	Cast iron box fountain
Place at the chapel	Fountain	Chapel fountain: basin from 1823, moved here from the market in 1873, limestone fountain shaft, foundation by the chief building officer Fritze 1905.
Place at the chapel 21	Residential building	Plastered half-timbered house from the 16th century
Reusengasse 6	City fortifications	Remnants of a shell tower from the former city fortifications
Schlossgasse 9	Residential building	Half-timbered house, in need of renovation, currently vacant.
Schlossplatz 1	lock	Elisabethenburg Palace : Baroque three-wing complex with a concluding round building, built between 1682 and 1692, the oldest part of the north wing from 1511 (Bibra building of the former Würzburg Castle , see picture: park side).
Schlossplatz 1	Fountain	Three-shell marble fountain from 1918 with a central location in the castle courtyard, renovated in 2019.
Schlossplatz 2	Riding arena	Former riding arena, built by Johann Andreas Schaubach in 1797 , Meiningen Theater Museum since 1999 .
Schlossplatz 5	Stables	Marstall Meiningen : built by August Wilhelm Döbner from 1854 to 1858 , three-winged marstall complex in the neo-renaissance style , today a riding stables and adjoining seat of the city administration.
Schlundgasse 4	Bürgerhaus Hotel Restaurant	Built in 1906, "Schlundhaus" is the Franconian name for Ratskeller , at this location since 1874, previously directly in the town hall, first mentioned in 1487, restored in 1982 and in the mid-1990s, the richly decorated bay window is a replica of the bay window from the "Merkel House", now a hotel and Restaurant.
Schwabenberg	Fountain	Cast iron box fountain in front of the "Hartung House"
Schwabenberg 10	Wall relief	Relief from the year 1853 by the sculptor Ferdinand Müller attached to a house in 1931. The relief was once intended for the Villa Carlotta on Lake Como and represents part of the “Train of the Germans to Italy” of Emperor Friedrich I (Barbarossa) with the “ Longobard procession "," Farewell to the warriors "," March "and" Crossing the Alps ".
Schweizergasse 7	Community center	Half-timbered house, built in the 17th century with half-timbered upper floor and roof bay window.
Pot market	Fountain	Cast iron box fountain
Wettiner Strasse 1b	Movie theater	Casino: Former civil casino company, converted into a cinema in 1919, today a modern multiplex cinema with six halls, architect Otto Schubert .
Wettiner Strasse 2a	Residential building	Rheingold: Large half-timbered house built around 1900 in the local style , formerly a hotel and dance hall.
Wettiner Strasse 3	Residential and commercial building	City villa
Wettiner Strasse 13	Residential and commercial building	Corner house richly decorated with stucco, built around 1875.
Wintergasse 8	Administration building	Hartungsche Haus: half-timbered house, built in 1603, until 2007 domicile of the municipal "galerie ada", today the city office.
Zwingergasse	Community center	Plastered half-timbered house with a rustic pub, once Max Reger's regular pub .

Monument ensembles

address	designation	description
Old town	City center	Medieval districts and the eclectic district that emerged after the fire of 1874 within the former city fortifications (Photo: Georgstrasse).
Bleaching trenches	City fortifications	Two parallel moats with an intervening wall of the former city fortifications, enclosing the eastern and northern parts of the old town. Originally the complex consisted of three trenches and two ramparts.
market	Space	East and north side of the square in eclectic style, south side with the town church.
Place at the chapel	Space	Historic square with a chapel fountain, in the Middle Ages the location of a synagogue and later an atonement chapel.

Soil monuments - garden monuments

address	designation	description
Old town	City fortifications	Ground monument : remains and areas of the former city wall around the old town
Bleaching trenches	City fortifications	Ground monument: Two parallel moats with a wall in between, in front of the former city wall, surrounds the eastern and northern parts of the old town. Originally the complex consisted of three trenches and two ramparts.
Schlossplatz 1	Castle castle	Ground monument: grounds of Elisabethenburg Palace and the former Meiningen Castle

Literature and Sources

Thränhardt, Pfannschmidt: Architecture in Meiningen . Verlag Resch, Meiningen 2010, ISBN 978-3-940295-08-8 .
Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen . Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
Reissland, Heinritz: Meininger views . State Museums Meiningen 1982.
List of monuments of the Lower Monument Protection Authority of the District Office Meiningen, published February 2010.

Web links

Commons : Buildings in Meiningen - Collection of images, videos and audio files