Pachelbelhaus (Cheb)

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Pachelbelhaus in Cheb

The Pachelbelhaus in Cheb (German Eger ), a city in the Czech Republic , formerly the political center of the Egerland (Chebsko) in the Okres Cheb (Eger district), is a residential and commercial building with the address náměstí Krále Jiřího z Poděbrad 492/3. It has been a protected cultural monument since 1958.

On the north side of the same square, just a few houses away , there is another house, which is called the town house or Pachelbelhaus , which today houses the town museum of Eger .

history

The house got its name after the owners Wolfgang Adam Pachelbel († 1620), 1600–1620 mayor of the city of Eger, and his eldest son Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag (1599–1649), 1620–1628 mayor of the city during the Thirty Years War ( 1618-1648). This house became famous through the murder of Albrecht von Wallenstein , Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Austrian Army on February 25, 1634 in a room in the part of the building facing the church square. In the years 1625, 1630 (twice) and 1632 it was his residence during four visits to Eger and after 1873 it housed the city museum with memorabilia (see Museum Cheb ).

The passage house between Ringplatz (market square) and Schulgasse with a passage hall from the Gothic period with cross vaults was first mentioned in a document in 1390. At the beginning of the 15th century, a new four-wing complex was built around a square courtyard with two facades facing the market square and the church square near St. Niklas Church. Between 1600 and 1603, the owner Richard (Klement) Holdorff had the main building converted into the Ringplatz in the Renaissance style. Above the portal, next to the coat of arms of the previous owner Greff, the coat of arms of Holdorff, a wealthy family from Eger, was placed.

From 1620 to 1629 the building was owned by one of the four Evangelical Lutheran mayors of the city of Eger Alexander Pachelbel (1500–1568) and after his expulsion at the beginning of the re-Catholicization of the city of Eger it came into the possession of the city. After the assassination of Wallenstein , it was from 1635 to 1705 a resident of the Order of the Jesuits , owner of the manorial Altkinsberg with the castle Altkinsberg. In 1735, the renovation work began as the home of the city commanders of two infantry regiments, since 1860 the k. and k. Infantry Regiment No. 73. The facade was redesigned in the Baroque style, the entrance hall vault was given a starry sky (no longer preserved today), the wood paneling in the floors was removed, stucco ceilings were created, which were removed again in 1906/1907 and the new staircase in the front wing with turned wooden balusters was installed.

Since 1850 the offices of the city administration have also been located in the town hall in the Pachelbel house. In 1869, the archivist and librarian Georg Schmidt (* 1844, died 1885 on the Grünberg near Eger) built a city museum in two rear-facing rooms on the 1st floor. In 1907 it was expanded to include the corner room on the side of the market square and two rooms in the mezzanine. The rear wing was vaulted and a conference room was newly built on the 2nd floor. In 1927 the collections of traditional costumes, equipment, glasses and pictures, around 1500 objects, which the city doctor Michael Müller (1849–1914) bequeathed to the Eger City Museum, took place.

From April 27, 1945 to mid-November 1945, the Pachelbelhaus was the scene of the rescue of the museum and archive holdings by the German archivist Heribert Sturm during the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia under the military rule of the 3rd American Army . The museum and archive were taken over by Jan Kubin (* 1900, died 2000 in Eger).

literature

  • Lorenz Schreiner : Monuments in the Egerland. Documentation of a German cultural landscape between Bavaria and Bohemia. With the participation of the State Archives in Cheb / Eger under Jaromir Bohac as well as Viktor Baumgarten, Roland Fischer, Erich Hammer, Ehrenfried John and Heribert Sturm , Amberg 2004, Pachelbel-Haus p. 79; Town house, former Pachelbel house, pp. 117 to 119, with photos from the years before 1945
  • Jaromir Bohac: Ten Pictures from the History of the Eger Museum, Cheb / Eger 2003
  • Josef Weinmann: Egerländer Biographical Lexicon with selected people from the former Reg.-Bez.-Eger, Volume 2, Männedorf / ZH 1987, ISBN 3-922808-12-3 , pages 34 to 36, bearers of the names of the Pachelbel zu Eger and Wunsiedel
  • Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmut Slapnika: Biographical lexicon for the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume III, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH Munich, ISBN 3 486 55973 7 , Wolf Adam Pachelbel (1599–1649)

Web links

  • The Pachelbelhaus. Description at the city of Cheb. In: encyklopedie.cheb.cz, accessed on February 6, 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Pachelbelhaus. In: encyklopedie.cheb.cz, accessed on June 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 30877 / 4-3654 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 45.7 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 15.7 ″  E