Mint master's house
The Münzmeisterhaus is one of the most important town houses in Coburg . The building at Ketschengasse 7 was built in 1444 as the three-story house of the mint master, called "von Rosenau". It was one of the first gothic half-timbered buildings in the city.
From 1854 for ten years and again after an expansion by Georg Meyer from 1867 to 1901, the building was used by the Alexandrine School. After that, there were two shops on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors. In 2008 there were practice rooms on the upper floors and three apartments on the top floor.
The representative eaves side house is around 22 meters high, 16.5 meters deep in the transverse direction and has a 22-meter-long facade facing Ketschengasse, which consists of solid sandstone blocks on the ground floor and is divided by six arbor arches. The house entrance and passage to the inner courtyard are in the middle, on the right a gate passage to Neugasse. The protruding facade of the two upper floors has ten window axes. It is a timber frame construction, which stands on floor-by-floor beam heads with lugs and in the inner four fields consists of stands with St. Andrew's crosses . The gable ends on the fire lanes to the neighboring buildings have a simple, orthogonal framework. The floor slabs have 30 beam fields in the longitudinal direction. The beams span six fields and are supported by beams and half-timbered walls.
The facade on the back is characterized by an inner courtyard with four window axes, a rear building along Neugasse and three window axes above the passage. The rear building in Neugasse is a four-storey saddle-roof house with a massive ground floor with two large arched openings for a garage. A three-storey half-timbered facade with three window axes protrudes strongly above the ground floor, behind which there is a residential unit. The gateway to Neugasse still has two wheel deflectors and is spanned by wooden beams with headbands that rest on lugs in the gable wall. The main building has a partial cellar and still has a medieval barrel vault and a round arched door frame.
The approximately 48 ° steep gable roof in Ketschengasse was given two two-axis hipped dormers in addition to small dormers in the 18th century . A massive staircase was installed in the 20th century, later supplemented with an elevator. In 1957, during renovation work on the first floor, grisaille paintings with figural representations of the seven virtues were discovered on a plank wall from the end of the 16th century , which has since been exhibited in the auditorium of the Casimirianum .
literature
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '27.26 " N , 10 ° 57' 53.23" E