House Rischer
The house Generic (also Palais Generic ) is a Grade II listed building in Heidelberg with the address Lower Street. 11
history
Since the Middle Ages, the Sinsheimer Klosterhof has stood on the grounds of today's addresses Untere Straße 11 and 13, where the rent bureau of the Palatinate Elector had his official residence from 1588 . In the Nine Years' War , he was as destroyed most of the city, only the cellar remained. The architect Johann Jakob Rischer from the Electoral Palatinate , who designed several baroque buildings in Heidelberg, subsequently bought part of the property and built the present-day palace named after him as his own residential building on it from 1711 to 1713.
After his death in 1755 the building was used for various purposes. For a long time it remained a residential building with changing owners. Around 1820 it was used as a university fencing floor . Later, the baker Fischer, who worked in the neighboring house, bought the Rischer house because he wanted to expand his business. At times the building belonged to the soap factory Jäger. In 1959, a student association , the stupid Akademisch Musische Vereinigung Stauffia, bought the palace and has since used it as a student residence .
Most of the architecture from the time it was built has been preserved, but the floor plans were modified several times during the various phases of use.
architecture
Structure and facade
The Rischer house is in the Baroque style and resembles the Italian palazzi of the time of origin. It is located as a corner house at the confluence of Bussemergasse and Untere Straße and is extremely grand, but very narrow. The building consists of two full floors and a mezzanine floor , which is adjoined by a flat hipped roof with a protruding eaves .
The lower level is a base level of sandstone , the facade is decorated with four plastically worked out double bands. There are two portals facing Untere Straße with skylight windows , of which the western one was added later as a shop entrance. The window parapets on the ground floor are convexly curved, and several cellar windows emerge below towards Bussemergasse.
Above the pedestal , the upper full storey and the mezzanine floor connect, which form an architectural unit with colossal sandstone pilasters . Here, too, the lower parapet zone is bulged outwards. The pilasters subdivide the facade harmoniously and are crowned with composite capitals . These capitals, the volute-adorned consoles and the upper window closings with acanthus ornaments form a wreath around the entire facade. Above this are the more rigid entablature and the hipped roof.
To the north, accessible from Bussemergasse, there is a single-storey side wing built entirely from sandstone. As the road slopes down to the Neckar , the base widens down there and includes an arched gate.
Interior work
Due to the small size of the property, the living spaces facing the street are not representative dimensions. Nevertheless, there is an open courtyard on the inside of the property. The stone door portals, the flights of stairs as well as the loggias are based on the Italian models of the Rischer house and are decorated with tendrils and balusters .
The full basement and a second courtyard east of the side wing ensure that the limited space is used well.
Web links
- Thomas Juelch: Heidelberg and the Kurpfalz - Haus Rischer ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Palais Rischer in the Gequo travel portal Heidelberg
- Photograph of the hallway and stairwell, taken between 1930 and 1980
literature
- Melanie Mertens: Stadtkreis Heidelberg (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume II.5.1). Part 1, Jan Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3 , p. 98 and p. 481 f. (with ills. 1416 and 1417).
- Thomas Flum, Carmen Flum: The reconstruction of Heidelberg after the destruction in the Palatinate War of Succession. In: Frieder Hepp, Hans-Martin Mumm (Hrsg.): Heidelberg in the Baroque. The reconstruction of the city after the destruction of 1689 and 1693. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg. Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88423-323-8 , pp. 84–163, here p. 149.
Individual evidence
- ^ Monastery courtyards in Heidelberg north of the Neckar. Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV, accessed on April 7, 2016.
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 44 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 26.1" E