Zocha Palace

The Zocha Palace in January 2010

The Zocha Palace is located in Gunzenhausen , a town in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building with the address Rathausstraße 12 is registered under the monument number D-5-77-136-102 as a monument in the Bavarian monument list.

The baroque building was built for himself in 1706 by the master builder Johann Wilhelm von Zocha . In 1746 the Principality of Ansbach bought the building and used it as an embassy . In 1816 the city ​​palace became Gunzenhausen's town hall. In 1974 the city administration moved to the current building . The Gunzenhausen City Museum has been located in the building since 1984 .

The palace is a three-storey hipped roof building . The middle part of the building is similar to risk . The basement and the structure of the pilaster strips are rusticated . The stairwell is still historically furnished. In front of the building is the cast iron fountain of Neptune from 1876.

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 , p. 224 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former noble palace on the list of monuments of the city of Gunzenhausen, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF)
2. ↑ Description of the building

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 53.7 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 19 ″  E