Mauthalle (Nuremberg)

Toll hall in Nuremberg

The Mauthalle is a medieval, imperial city building in Nuremberg . It is one of the most important architectural monuments in Nuremberg's old town and is a stop on the Nuremberg Historical Mile .

location

The toll hall is in the old town of Lorenz, between Königsstraße and Pfannenschmiedsgasse, north of the An der Mauthalle square.

history

The toll hall was built between 1498 and 1502 by Hans Beheim the Elder. Ä. Built on the penultimate moat and was the largest "grain bin" in the city. With a total of 12 granaries, the supply of the citizens was secured in times of crisis. The building was accessible by car on the narrow sides. Elevator hatches above the gable axles and on the eaves sides were used for transport inside.

Postcard, around 1919

In 1571/72 the imperial city customs and weighing office moved into the building, the cellar served as a wine storage facility ("Herrenkeller"). The property only got the name Mauthalle in the 19th century when it was used as a main customs office (from toll for customs). In 1898 the toll hall was converted into a commercial building. The cellar has been used for gastronomy since 1929, and for decades the "Mautkeller", a traditional Franconian restaurant, beer and wine bar was housed here.

During the bombing on 8/9 In March 1943 the roof structure burned out completely - afterwards an emergency roof was built. On October 3, 1944, the building received light explosive bombs, on January 2, 1945 it was hit again, this time badly, the emergency roof was destroyed, the east gable and the south outer wall were damaged, the toll hall burned down completely.

From 1951 to 1953 it was rebuilt in a simplified form. The two six-storey roof bay windows, previously made of half-timbering, were only built in plastered masonry.

Even today the toll hall is used as a commercial building. The medieval vaulted cellar has been home to the brewery with an attached in-house brewery "Barfüßer" since 1994, which has a total of 835 seats in three guest areas; Traditional Franconian cuisine is served with the home- brewed beer .

Copper brew kettle
Fermentation tank
A guest room
Barefoot blonde

building

Imperial eagle and city arms on the east portal

The toll hall is 84 meters long, 20 meters wide and 29 meters high. A five-story gable roof with two six-story roof cores was placed on top of a three-story sandstone building. The cellar is a three-aisled hall vault, supported by 26 columns.

The east side is decorated with a network of keel arches in the gable and a pointed arch portal with the imperial eagle and the city arms ( Adam Kraft , 1502). The lavishly designed gable facade shows an imaginatively varied brick pilaster structure. The rows of bricks weave into a fish-bubble-like pattern through ogival crossings.

The large pointed arch windows on the ground floor were installed in the early days .