Rentamt (Gemmingen)

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Rent office in Gemmingen, gable side
Rentamt, eaves side
Cellar gate at the Rentamt, dated 1618
Fruit storage facility (Zehntscheuer)
One of the grimaces at the fruit store

The Rentamt in Gemmingen , a municipality in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , is a half-timbered house in the Kraichgau , the oldest parts of which date from 1618. The building is protected as a cultural monument. The Gemming Middle Castle , which was destroyed in the Thirty Years War , was located at the Rent Office . The rent office is connected to the surrounding former farm buildings, including the old fruit store opposite .

history

The middle castle was the oldest local mansion of the Lords of Gemmingen , which the progenitor Hans von Gemmingen probably lived in around the middle of the 13th century. By the end of the 13th century, two more mansions were built on the site with the upper castle on the site of today's Gemmingen town hall and the lower castle that is still preserved today . These aristocratic residences were initially well-fortified castles and have been rebuilt several times over the years.

The rent office was built by the middle palace in 1618 at the latest . The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . It was not rebuilt afterwards, but completely removed, so that today there are no more traces of the castle to be found. The rent office remained as the administrative headquarters and was supplemented by various farm buildings such as the fruit store opposite.

description

Rent Office

The rent office at Stettener Straße 2 has the gable facing the street, and on this side there is a round arched gate to the basement, the keystone of which is the alliance coat of arms of Dietrich von Gemmingen (1584–1659) and his first wife Agnes von Reischach († 1614) as well as the year 1618. How this coat of arms came about is unclear, especially since Dieter had the documents after possession of the lower castle and was married to Anastasia von Degenfeld in 1618. Nevertheless, 1618 is considered to be the year of construction of the building. The cellar of the house has a barrel vault made of sandstone blocks. The small, slightly higher basement room to the left of the entrance looks older, but its late Gothic window was only used later.

The house consists of a ground floor modified in the Baroque period , a half-timbered upper floor with a threshold and visible beam heads as well as two roof floors that have been preserved from the construction period of 1618. In the 18th century the house was extended by a window axis width. On the eaves side , an ornately designed portal made of sandstone with columns and a vented gable was attached in 1717 .

The half-timbered structure of the rent office has decorative shapes such as the Franconian man with well-dressed eyes, St. Andrew's crosses over indented diamonds and curved short struts with noses. The attics have skylights decorated with carvings.

Fruit storage

The fruit store is a half-timbered building that was built in 1743 over an older core. Walled up on the half-timbered gable are two grimaceous heads, which may once have served as fountain spouts, and above them a third head in a window-like frame. A Gemmingen coat of arms is applied to the southern corner post, with the initials PDVG for Pleikard Dietrich von Gemmingen . The fruit store served as a tithe barn for a long time , but has now been expanded for residential purposes.

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895.
  • Adolf Oechelhäuser [Ed.]: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8.1): The art monuments of the districts of Sinsheim, Eppingen and Wiesloch (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1909.
  • Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn , 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 .
  • Erwin Huxhold : The half-timbered houses in Kraichgau. A guide to the architectural monuments . Published by the Heimatverein Kraichgau e. V. 3rd edition. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2002, ISBN 3-89735-185-4 , p. 115.

Web links

Commons : Rentamt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oechelhäuser 1909, p. 170
  2. ↑ Stocker 1895, p. 70.
  3. ↑ Oechelhäuser 1909, p. 170
  4. ↑ Huxhold 2002, p. 115.
  5. ↑ Huxhold 2002, p. 115.
  6. ↑ Fekete 2002, p. 167.
  7. ↑ Oechelhäuser 1909, p. 170.
  8. ↑ Fekete 2002, p. 167.

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '14.69 "  N , 8 ° 58' 53.26"  E