Palais Landauer
The Palais Landauer in Ellingen , a town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ( Bavaria ), dates back to a building from the 16th century. The palace at Weißenburger Straße 17 is a protected architectural monument and has been known as the Roman Emperor Inn since 1776.
history
The building was first mentioned in 1536 as a city palace . It served the members of the Teutonic Order , which had a land commandery in Ellingen. The original renaissance furnishings were created under the owner Dr. Johann Jakob Herold around 1595. The house was devastated in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War . In 1741 the Jewish court factor Samuel Landauer bought the palace and had it rebuilt in the Baroque style. Among other things, the baroque hall on the first floor was created, which served the Jewish community in Ellingen as a prayer room until they were able to build their own synagogue building in the rear part of the property in 1757.
In 1776 an innkeeper bought the palace, who ran the inn under the name of the Roman Emperor . The author Sophie Hoechstetter let her novel Die Schenkin play in this house.
In 2001 the von Kerssenbrock family bought the building and saved it from deterioration. The house has been restored extensively and with great care in detail. It's a hotel today .
architecture
The two-storey mansard roof building with a dwelling has a pilaster structure and a profiled window roofing. The rich facade decor is particularly evident in the decorations above the street-side windows. The baroque hall on the first floor is decorated with frescoed ceilings depicting scenes from the Old Testament .
Jacob sees the ladder to heaven in a dream
Joseph is thrown into a well by his brothers
Moses and the burning bush
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
- Peter Kuhn: The art monuments of Bavaria. Georgensgmünd Jewish cemetery. New series vol. 6. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-06559-8 , p. 17 and note 35.
Web links
- The baroque prayer room of the "Roman Emperor" of the Amson and Landauer families with Jews in Ellingen (with photos)
- Family tree of the Landauer family (English; PDF; 39 kB)
- History of the Jewish community in Ellingen near Alemannia Judaica
- Hotel Römischer Kaiser (with many photos)
Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '35.46 " N , 10 ° 58' 4.33" E