Löschenkohl Palace

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The Löschenkohl Palace in 2010

The Palais Löschenkohl is a baroque palace at Neupfarrplatz 14 in the world heritage zone of the old town of Regensburg . From 1743 until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the property served as the seat of the delegation of the Electorate of Saxony to the Perpetual Reichstag . For this reason the house is also called the Electoral Saxon Legation .

history

The house was built between 1731 and 1733 for the banker and merchant Hieronymus Löschenkohl (1692–1755). The architect was Johann Michael Prunner from Linz , a student of Lucas von Hildebrandt , who built the Belvedere in Vienna, among other things . After the Löschenkohl trading company went bankrupt in 1743, the delegation of the Electorate of Saxony moved into the building at the Perpetual Reichstag , which gave it the name of the Kursächsische Legation. This era ended in 1806 with the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire , which had been decided three years earlier in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of the Perpetual Diet. Construction files of the building have been available since 1864, but the building was neglected for decades. Around 1900 the building was used by the Berlin department store and around 1910 one of the first cinemas, the Apollo Theater, opened here. Expertly supervised restoration work was not carried out until around 1920. The house was again extensively renovated from 1985 to 1987 and has served as a branch of Dresdner Bank and later Commerzbank since then .

architecture

As with other Regensburg buildings such as the Pürkelgut Palace or the Löschenkohl Garden Palace , Prunner was guided by the Viennese Baroque style. This corresponded to both his training with Lucas von Hildebrandt and Löschenkohl's professional connections in the capital, which generally acted as a role model for Regensburg than Munich, which was closer to home.

Previous buildings

Of the previous buildings of the palace, only Gothic cellars from the 13th century remain, which also run through the subsoil of the neighboring houses (No. 12 and 13). Both neighboring buildings probably also contain Gothic basic substance, so that it can be assumed that there were also buildings on the site of the Löschenkohl Palais in front of the construction, but they were not integrated into the structure.

investment

The palace was designed as a four-story, four-wing building around an inner courtyard. The main facade is on the south side of the Neupfarrplatz, a two-winged side wing formed a secondary facade to the east in the adjacent Pfarrergasse (No. 2). During the renovation in the 1980s, the inner courtyard was roofed over with a steel and glass construction over the first floor and now functions as the bank's counter hall. The white, narrow-height eaves facade facing the Neupfarrplatz is evenly windowed through and divided by seven axes. The three-axis central projection emerges from the facade in concave oscillations, but is withdrawn again in the portal axis. The window on the first floor above the portal is provided with a balcony grille and contributes to the fact that the palace stands out architecturally from the rest of the square.

See also

literature

  • Andreas Kraus, Wolfgang Pfeiffer: Regensburg. History in picture documents. Beck, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-406-04028-4 , p. 119.
  • Minoritenweg 20. Löschenkohl Garden Palace (Rosenwirtsgarten). In: Heinrich Wanderwitz: Regensburg monument profiles. Office for Archives and Preservation of Monuments, Department of Preservation of Monuments, Regensburg 2009, p. 37.
  • Helmut-Eberhard Paulus: The Löschenkohl-Palais. Dresdner Bank in Regensburg, Neupfarrplatz 14. Regensburg, 1988.
  • Carl Oskar Renner: The Palais on Neupfarrplatz. The history of the Regensburg banking house Hieronymus Löschenkohl. In: Herbert Schindler (Ed.): Sceneries of the Rococo. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1969, pp. 139–150.

Web links

Commons : Palais Löschenkohl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigfrid Färber: Regensburg formerly, yesterday and today , JF Steinkopf Verlag Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3- 7984-0588-3, p. 31 f
  2. ↑ a b c Palais Löschenkohl - Neupfarrplatz 14. ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. City of Regensburg, www.regensburg.de. Retrieved January 5, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.regensburg.de
  3. ^ Borgmeyer, Anke, Achim Hubel, Andreas Tillmann and Angelika Wellenhofer: City of Regensburg- Monuments in Bavaria , Mittelbayerische Druck- und Verlags- Gesellschaft, Regensburg 1997

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 5.1 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 45 ″  E