Nuremberg court
The Nürnberger Hof was a trade fair district , stacking warehouse and commercial agency for Nuremberg merchants in the Free Imperial and Trade Fair City of Frankfurt am Main .
meaning
Numerous cities in the old empire had such trading centers (at least Trier , Leipzig and Augsburg should be mentioned ). The Nuremberg court in Frankfurt was the largest of its kind and the only fragments of it that remained. Most of the plant was destroyed in three phases: the construction of the road breakthrough of Braubachstraße 1904-06, in the destruction of the old city in 1944 and the " reconstruction " of the old city 1952-55.
Not only Nuremberg merchants took up quarters here, also the Emperor Friedrich III. and Maximilian I. and Albrecht Dürer lived here during their stays in Frankfurt. Since the end of the 17th century, the Brentano and Guaita families, who immigrated from northern Italy, had their trading establishments here.
The Nürnberger Hof was also the eponymous meeting point for a parliamentary group in the Frankfurt National Assembly .
investment
The courtyard was an alley that widened in the middle to a square separated by two gate buildings. Numerous buildings belonging to the complex were grouped around the alley and courtyard. At both ends the street was separated from the rest of the street network by two simple archways.
The facility was located north of the Römerberg and east of Paulsplatz and Neuer Kräme . It ran in a north-south direction from the former Schnurgasse (roughly today's, but much wider Berliner Straße ) to the street Hinter dem Lämmchen , a few steps from the stone house on the Alter Markt .
Building history
The Nürnberger Hof was created from two independent courtyards, the Glauburghof and the Schmidthof . The Glauburghof was named after its owner, the Frankfurt patrician family Glauburg , and was the family seat in the 13th century.
The southern passage to the inner courtyard was built around 1410 based on designs by the Frankfurt cathedral builder Madern Gerthener . The passage shows a rich, late Gothic star vault on heraldic consoles. The keystones show the city arms of Frankfurt and Nuremberg. There was an iron gate on the south side of the passage.
In 1485, Glauburghof and the Schmidthof to the north (facing Schnurgasse) were combined into one complex.
The new construction of the road breakthrough in Braubachstrasse in 1905 led through the middle of the complex and destroyed the central courtyard of the ensemble. When the old town was destroyed in March 1944, other components were destroyed.
The northern entrance of the ensemble (towards Schnurgasse) survived the nights of bombing almost undamaged, but was then torn down in 1953 when the "car-friendly" traffic lane Berliner Straße was built.
Received components
Of the extensive facilities of the Nürnberger Hof, only the two gateways to the inner courtyard are preserved today. The southern passage Gertheners described is located at Braubachstrasse 31, and can also be reached from Römerberg (to the right of the stone house ). On the other side of Braubachstrasse (in the courtyard of house No. 28), the northern entrance to the inner courtyard has been preserved, a baroque gate from around 1720.
literature
- Haberland, Ernst-Dietrich: Madern Gerthener "the city of Franckenfurd Werkmeister". Builder and sculptor of the late Gothic. Knecht, Frankfurt 1992.
- Wolf-Christian Setzepfandt : Architecture Guide Frankfurt am Main / Architectural Guide . 3. Edition. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01236-6 .
Web links
- The Nuremberg court. altfrankfurt.com
- Application of the CDU parliamentary group to the Nürnberger Hof
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 40 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 59 ″ E