Loreley (Coburg)
The Loreley restaurant is located at Herrngasse 14 in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg . It is a building erected in 1763, which is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
The house researcher Ernst Cyriaci from Coburg named the owner of a house in today's Herrngasse as early as 1508. In 1581 the property was called the Beck bakery and was acquired in 1597 by the master baker Georg Knauer. He also brewed beer and served it in a drinking room that later bore the name Herrenbeck.
From 1763 there was a fundamental renovation and expansion into a representative two-wing corner house, which was also used as an inn. At the beginning of the 19th century, the master baker Phillip Frommann bought the building and had the street facade changed in 1831. He was followed by his son Georg in 1852. He developed the inn into a location that was particularly popular with the artists of the neighboring court theater . Regular guests were also the theater painters Max and Gotthold Brückner, who decorated the hallway with two wall paintings with romantic depictions of the Loreley . As a result, the inn was named Loreley from around 1860. In 1875 Heinrich Müller succeeded his father-in-law. From the Landsmannschafter Convent met regularly at Whitsun in the bar.
In 1900 Karl Nößler took over the Loreley and initiated major renovations and expansions. In 1905 he swapped the kitchen and dining room and in 1927 had the courtyard covered with glass. The Paulaner brewery bought the property in 1933/34 . From around 1927, the facade above the entrance was provided with colored decorative painting in the neo-Renaissance style by the court painter Wank . In 1936, Normann Müller extended the paintings to the entire street facade. In 1990 the inn was closed. An extensive renovation followed from 1993 to 1995, during which the Loreley painting was lost. The renovation work on all floors included the modernization of six apartments and the restaurant. After a facade renovation in 1999, Edgar Stengele from Bamberg reconstructed the facade painting in 2001. In 2011 a businessman from the Coburg district bought the property and arranged for the restaurants, kitchens and ancillary rooms to be renovated.
architecture
The two-wing, three-story corner house stands at the end of Herrngasse at the confluence of Rückertstrasse and Grafengasse. It has eight window axes in Herrngasse and nine in Rückertstrasse, where there is an entrance portal with a flat basket arch , which has a wedge marked 1763. Here you can see a baker's house sign, two soaring lions holding pretzels, rolls and loaf of bread between them. This shows that there was also a restaurant next to a bakery.
The massive ground floor is offset from the half-timbered upper floors by a recess. The half-timbering is plastered on the street side and visible in the courtyard. There it is characterized by a close orthogonal row and straight and curved St. Andrew's crosses in the window parapets. At the corner of the building there is a floor-to-ceiling groove. Two hipped roofs form the upper end of the building wings.
literature
- Christian Boseckert: The “Loreley” inn - as an example of an old Coburg craftsman's house . In: Coburger Geschichtsblätter Jahresband, 20th year 2012, ISSN 0947-0336 , pp. 55–74.
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 114
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 30 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E