Luitpoldstrasse 3 (Weißenburg)

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The house at Luitpoldstraße 3 , also known as the Golden Lion , is a monument in the listed old town of Weißenburg in Bavaria . Close to the building in Luitpoldstrasse is house no.16, the oldest surviving town house in Weißenburg. The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-177-235 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.

The building was erected in its present form in 1778. The three-storey building, which is massive on the ground floor, has a tail gable with a gable roof . The facade is from the late baroque ; some of the walls are late medieval . The walls are structured by natural stone . The building has a front staircase . The chapel , the oldest architecturally designed interior in Weißenburg, is located on the ground floor . In this room there is a cross vault from the 13th century. Until 1990 the building was home to one of the oldest breweries and restaurants in Weißenburg, the Löwen Brewery .

  • Coat of arms above the main portal

  • Tail gable

  • Leo as a house symbol

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .

Web links

Commons : Luitpoldstraße 3 (Weißenburg in Bayern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lion brewery in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Excursion through Weißenburg

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 51.8 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 21.5 ″  E