Palmscher building

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The Palmsche Bau 2011
... and around 1900

The Palmsche Bau , also called Unterer Palmscher Bau , in the Inner Bridge 2 in Esslingen am Neckar is a former city palace of the late Renaissance, which is now used for gastronomy.

history

In 1701 a fire destroyed numerous buildings in Esslingen, including the structures on the four parcels on which the Palmsche Bau was built between 1708 and 1711. The builder was Jonathan Palm, who worked in the jewelery and banking business in Vienna between 1689 and 1719 , but came from Esslingen. According to plans by Johann Jakob Börel and Peter Jochum, he had a palace built entirely of stone, which at that time was the largest and most lavishly furnished private residential building in the city. The rear pleasure garden in the area of ​​the old city wall also belonged to the building. A figure niche still bears witness to this use of today's beer garden. Two Doric columns with consoles support a balcony on the street side.

In Palm's time there was a vestibule behind the entrance to Palmschen Bau , followed by an antechamber and then a hall in the center of the building. The stairwell with its original balustrade grilles and the room arrangement on the first floor with the oven doors, which were necessary to heat the rooms from the corridor, have been partially preserved inside the house.

The house was the residence of the von Palm family from 1719. The Thurn and Taxis postal administration was later housed here. In 1862 the real shield economy was granted.

In 1886 the photographer Karl Liebhardt moved with his family to the Palmschen Bau, where he also set up his photo studio. Before that he had worked in the house at Innere Brücke 7. The atelier in Palmschen Bau passed into the hands of Karl Beck around 1899 and a little later to Hugo Mezgers; Liebhardt bought the house at Wehrneckarstrasse 2 (today: Wehrneckarstrasse 27) in 1897.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 141
  2. ^ Homepage of the Palm construction
  3. ^ Gerhard Stumpp, Greetings from Esslingen. Karl Liebhardt and his postcards , Esslingen 2005 (first published in: Esslinger Studien 43, 2004, pp. 141–196. The text edition from 2005 served as a catalog for an exhibition in the city museum and has no page numbers.)

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 29.6 "  N , 9 ° 18 ′ 26.3"  E