Abensberg market square
The market square is an ensemble of buildings in Abensberg , a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim . The market square today bears the official street name Stadtplatz .
history
The almost triangular market square takes up the three main streets that lead from Regensburg , Freising or Munich and Kelheim to the settlement first mentioned in 1143. Under the protection of the castle of the Counts of Abensberg , the place developed into a market and received city rights around 1400 . A fourth road train connects to the orphaned after the extinction of the counts in 1485, the Thirty Years' War largely destroyed castle ago.
description
The market square is built on mostly three-storey bourgeois gabled houses, often from the 16th or 17th century. Some of the facades have been redesigned in Baroque and Historicist forms . The town hall (No. 1) is a late Gothic gable building. The town hall and the Kuchlbauer Brauereigasthof (No. 2) on the east side, which was built in historical forms at the beginning of the 20th century, set the dominant accents.
Architectural monuments on the town square
- No. 1: Town Hall
- No. 2: Kuchlbauer brewery inn
- No. 3: community center
- No. 4: residential and commercial building
- No. 15: So-called Silberkramerhaus
literature
- Georg Paula , Volker Liedke, Michael M. Rind : District of Kelheim (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume II.30 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-7954-0009-0 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 55.8 " N , 11 ° 50 ′ 46.6" E