Ottobeurer house

The Ottobeurer house and work houses in a drawing from 1929

The Ottobeurer house was a listed building in the Upper Swabian town of Memmingen . It was demolished in the course of urban renewal in favor of the Maxi-Center.

history

A house had been owned by the Ottobeuren monastery since 1443 . So it is said in several Memminger chronicles Jodocus Niderhoffer a Memmingen child abbot of Ottenbeuren / was previously provost of S. Niclaus in Memmingen. Bring his home to the Closter Ottenbeuren and that of his ancestors / that they had in Memmingen / which perhaps this is / so that the imaginary Closter still belongs to this time . The house received its first aqueduct in 1564, when Abbot Caspar von Ottobeuren allowed the city to lay water lines into the city from Benninger Ried , which belonged to the monastic territory. In 1647 this older house was demolished. After a makeshift reconstruction, it was replaced by a new building between 1663 and 1667. In the course of secularization , the monastery sold the house to a citizen of Memmingen, who resold it to the Bavarian state in the same year. From 1804 to 1856 the salt office of the royal salt works administration was housed there. During the processions of the city's Catholic population, an altar was set up in front of the Ottobeurer house from 1804. In 1856 it was converted into a prison. Most of the windows in the main building were changed. In the 1970s it was demolished in favor of a new building after the Memmingen correctional facility had been rebuilt in Gaswerkstrasse.

Building description

The two-story detached house had three to twelve axes and a gable roof . Some of the windows on the ground floor survived the 1850 renovation. On the south side there were five depressed ox eyes with diagonal bars. Such a window had diagonal bars on the east side; two were without bars. On the south side there was a rectangular window with the same grille. On the ground floor there was a hall with four groin vaults on a column with a Doric capital . All other rooms with the exception of one room on the south side had groin vaults. On the upper floor there was a longitudinal corridor and two short transverse corridors with groin vaults. On the north side, three rooms had sturdy stucco frames on the ceilings from the time it was built.

literature

Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Bavarian art monuments. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 29-30 .

Individual evidence

↑ Memminger Chronicle . Ndr. D. Edition Ulm 1660, page 10
↑ Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826 - 1892, edited by Friedrich Döderlein, Memmingen, Verlag von B. Hartnig, 1894, page 16
↑ Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826 - 1892, edited by Friedrich Döderlein, Memmingen, Verlag von B. Hartnig, 1894, page 157
↑ Paul Hoser: The history of the city of Memmingen - From a new beginning in the Kingdom of Bavaria to 1945 . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1316-X , p. 319 .
^ Karl Fackler: Das alten Memmingen - The historical development of the city of Memmingen from the time of its foundation to the Thirty Years' War. Publishing and printing cooperative Memmingen (Bay.) Munich / Nuremberg 1929.

[1] Memminger Chronicle . Ndr. D. Edition Ulm 1660, page 10

[2] Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826 - 1892, edited by Friedrich Döderlein, Memmingen, Verlag von B. Hartnig, 1894, page 16

[3] Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826 - 1892, edited by Friedrich Döderlein, Memmingen, Verlag von B. Hartnig, 1894, page 157

[4] Paul Hoser: The history of the city of Memmingen - From a new beginning in the Kingdom of Bavaria to 1945 . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1316-X , p. 319 .

[5] Karl Fackler: Das alten Memmingen - The historical development of the city of Memmingen from the time of its foundation to the Thirty Years' War. Publishing and printing cooperative Memmingen (Bay.) Munich / Nuremberg 1929.