Loewenich Palace

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Exterior view of the Loewenich Palace from the east

The Loewenichsche Palais (also called Loewenich'sches Palais or Palais Loewenich ) is a listed , baroque aristocratic palace south of the historic old town of Erlangen . The Erlangen Art Museum has been housed here since 1998 .

location

The Loewenichsche Palais is located at Nürnberger Straße 9. It is at the intersection of Nürnberger Straße, which runs in north-south direction, which forms a traffic-calmed area in continuation of the pedestrian zone , with the street Henkestraße / Güterhallenstraße, which is a busy east-west Axis. The main entrance of the Erlangen Arcaden and the Arcaden bus stop , which is served by almost all city transport lines, are in the immediate vicinity .

history

Around the middle of the 18th century, Joachim Christoph Heer († 1767), who belonged to a Swiss merchant family who had lived in Erlangen since 1717 , built the house with a few outbuildings in his garden in front of the now demolished Nürnberger Tor. In 1763 he also acquired the adjacent garden to the west, which had been used as a margravial parforce garden since 1752 . This was later decorated with numerous sculptures . In 1786 the property passed to the wholesale merchant Jean Pierre Courlet, in 1812 to Johannes Caspari and in 1817 via an inheritance to the von Loewenich family (who gave it their name). Bartholomäus von Loewenich, who came from Frankfurt am Main , built an outbuilding south of the palace (Nürnberger Straße 11) for the tobacco factory Caspari Erbe n. He had the palace itself converted into a luxurious residential building. In 1818 he also added the so-called “garden hall” on the west side. This received a floor-to-ceiling panorama wallpaper , which is exhibited today in the German Wallpaper Museum in Kassel . It shows a scene from Greek mythology , the stay of Telemachus on the island of Calypso .

The von Loewenich family owned the palace until 1941. The palace had been the seat of the state health department since 1935 . In 1962 it became the property of the Deutsche Bundespost , which had all the outbuildings and the garden hall demolished and the new main post office building was built in the former garden of the palace from 1969 to 1973. In 1998 it returned to private ownership. The buyer was the Förderverein Kunstmuseum Erlangen e.V. , founded in 1989 from the Kunstverein Erlangen . V. (from May 2001 Kunstmuseum Erlangen e.V. ), who created exhibition rooms in it. In spring 2002, a steel - glass extension to the south was opened to enlarge the exhibition area ; since then, the exhibition site has been officially called the Erlangen Art Museum. In July 2016, this was transferred to the sponsorship of the city of Erlangen.

description

The stately upper-class house is a two-storey hipped roof building made of light sandstone blocks with six to six window axes . The exterior structure is structured by corner pilasters and lattice windows with light frames, which are provided with shutters on the upper floor . The stichbogig final portal on the east side is of two Doric pilasters edged. In the 19th century, a balcony with a wrought iron railing was installed above it .

The portal axis (corresponding to the width of two window axes) is crowned by a dwelling with Ionic pilasters and cranked window frames. The final tail gable with vase crown was only erected in 1895. In 1870 the original tail gable was replaced by a so-called “Fool's Temple”, a tower room with a flat tin roof that cut backwards into the hipped roof , from which one could enter a gallery running around three sides .

Inside, the first floor is remarkable. Here is an elaborately designed stucco ceiling with rocailles , rosettes and leaf tendrils .

Memorial plaque for Johann Gottlieb Fichte

In 1805/06, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte , one of the most important representatives of German idealism , lived in the Loewenich Palace. A memorial plaque above the balcony reminds of this today.

literature

Web links

Commons : Loewenichsches Palais  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Andreas Jakob, Tanja Wentzlaff-Eggebert: Loewenichsches Palais. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  2. ^ City of Erlangen: Art Museum Erlangen - A forum for modern regional art . Online at www.erlangen.de ; accessed on April 1, 2018.

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 37.58 "  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 17.68"  E