Retscher (Speyer)
The Retscher is the ruin of a Gothic town house in the historic old town of Speyer . It is right next to the Trinity Church .
The pillage of Speyer in 1689 left hardly any remains of secular buildings. From the bishop's palace next to the cathedral there is only a stump of a stair tower, a Gothic archway remained from the council courtyard , in the facade of the Heiliggeistkirche Gothic window arches of a residential building were exposed during a renovation, in Spitalgasse there is still a Renaissance stair tower.
The only remaining medieval secular building in the city is the ruins of the Retscher . It is a former patrician house from the 13th century, named after the builder Retschelinus (mentioned in 1241). The late Staufer window openings with profiled cloverleaf arches are remarkable.
On October 27, 1495, the Retscher came into the possession of the city of Speyer. The sellers were the cathedral capitular Johann Kranich von Kirchheim , together with his brother Heinrich, his cousin Praexedis and Matthias von Rammung as the authorized representative of his brother-in-law Albrecht V. Göler von Ravensburg .
From 1628 to 1648 it was used as a prayer room for the Lutheran congregation. After the war of the Palatinate Succession, the Holy Trinity Church was built next to the burned-out ruins .
The name "Retscherkirche" for the memorial church built in the 19th century refers to the tradition of the place - originally it was even supposed to be built on this site - especially since it was believed at the time that the Reichstag of 1529, on which the protestation in Speyer took place , would have taken place in Retscher .
literature
- Handbook of German Art Monuments (DEHIO) Rhld.-Pf. Saarland, 2nd edition 1984, p. 988
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Eger: History of the City of Speyer , Kohlhammer Verlag, 1983, page 443, ISBN 3170080377 ; Excerpt from the source
- ↑ Konrad von Busch and Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Choir Rules and Younger Sea Book of the Old Speyer Cathedral Chapter , Speyer 1923, pages 276 and 277
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 5.4 " N , 8 ° 26 ′ 21.8" E