Slap House

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The "Slap House" in Treffurt

The Face Slap House is a listed half-timbered house in the town of Treffurt in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .

Architecture and history

The Face Slap House is a semi-detached house with a massive ground floor and two half-timbered floors, which have cornices richly decorated with carvings and a polygonal half-timbered bay window. It was built in 1608, presumably based on a design by the master builder Johannes Rink, as a residential and administrative building on behalf of the Hessian inheritance bailiff Phillipp Bley, who had his official residence in the Hessischer Hof .

Bley was slapped on the face by his superior because he had not given the permit for such a stately building, but only for a simple apartment building. Bley took this as an opportunity to put an inscription above the portal of the house, in which he was amused at his employer:

"PASCERE LIVOR INERS ODIO SATUARE MORS TUA RECTA DEUM FACTA COLEN EINTIS ERUNT"

- Feast on envy, coward, and fill yourself up with hatred; that is your death, but what is right is what he does, who worships the Lord God.

The events earned the house the name "Slap House".

literature

  • Heimatverein Treffurt eV: 900 years of Treffurt - contributions to the city's history. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 2004, ISBN 3931431339 , page 44

Web links

Commons : Face Slap House (Treffurt)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 14 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 10.1"  E