Grafenhausen rectory

Church and rectory in Grafenhausen

Valley side

The Pfarrhof Grafenhausen is a historical building in Grafenhausen in the southern Black Forest in the district of Waldshut .

On May 14, 1763, Abbot Meinrad Troger personally designated the building site for the new rectory in Grafenhausen, roughly on the site of the former St. Fides monastery . The plans were probably made by Franz Anton Bagnato , who had previously built the similar castle Bürgeln together with the foreman and master builder Ferdinand Weizenegger . Local craftsmen and artists, including the master potter Johann Baptist Nüßle , carried out the construction. After a fire in 1928, the building is now being renovated again.

The structure has an impressive length of 26 m and a width of 16.5 m. Two storeys with a massive mansard roof rise above a vaulted basement, which is rectangular in its basic shape , the long side of which, facing the valley, is emphasized by a symmetrically arranged gable, as in Bürgeln. The rest of the design is the same as in Bürgeln. The three-dimensional pilaster strips here are a further development . The place of a clock is represented by a coat of arms. The four gargoyles designed as dragons were created by the plumber Franz Joseph Fritz from Birkendorf. The master carpenter Joseph Müller made the roof structure. The glazing and joinery work came from Konrad and Lorenz Pfluger, also from Birkendorf. Of the numerous magnificent tiled stoves in Nüßle, only one could be recovered after the fire, and the veneered parquet was also lost. The coat of arms in the gable was created by Franz Joseph Rößler from Stühlingen, it shows the leaping deer of the St. Blasien monastery and Meinrad's coat of arms. The stucco made Lucius Gambs from Schnifis . Overall, the building was so magnificent that it was necessary to redesign the church so that it did not look too different. But this was the task of the succeeding abbot, Martin Gerbert .

literature

• Paul Booz : Building and Art History of the Monastery of St. Blasien and its domain. Schillinger, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-89155-264-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Booz: The history of architecture and art of the St. Blasien monastery and its domain. P. 380 ff

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 30.6 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 40.8 ″  E