Roeck House
The Roeck-Haus (often also Röck-Haus and Haus zur Himmelsleiter ) is a building in the old town of Augsburg . It was built in its present form in 1768 in the Rococo style.
History and design of the house
The predecessor of today's property at Maximilianstrasse 51 was a late medieval building from 1480, which was built for Lukas I. Fugger - a cousin of Jakob Fugger the Rich. The Venetian merchant Joseph Tonella bought the house in the middle of the eighteenth century and had it demolished. Today's Rococo Palace was built in its place under the direction of the Augsburg master builder Johann Martin Pentenrieder . After the property was in the meantime in the possession of the Augsburg banker and naturalist Joseph Paul von Cobres , it was acquired by Morton McDonald Roeck in 1927.
The charming facade of the Roeck-Haus is clearly structured and consists of arched arcades on the ground floor and two additional floors, the large windows of which regularly attract a lot of attention from the viewer due to their arching towards the outside. The wooden entrance door, which is decorated with commercial symbols and bears the monogram of Our Lady in the skylight, is also worth seeing . The stucco work on the house can probably be assigned to the Feichtmayr district . The ceiling frescos in the two shops on the ground floor, in the hallway and in the stairwell ( Jacob's dream of the ladder to heaven - hence the name of the property) come from the Dillingen painter Vitus Felix Rigl .
literature
- Bartel, Jürgen: Beautiful old Augsburg , Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Augsburg 1982, p. 42 ff
- Roeck, Bernd: The 'Haus zur Himmelsleiter' in Augsburg , in: "Blätter des Bayerischen Landesverein für Familienkunde", VII / 1975, pp. 433–437
- Pfaud, Robert: The community center in Augsburg , Wasmuth, Tübingen 1976, pp. 68–70
- Nagler, Gregor: "There are some among them who would stand out in Rome and Genoa". Augsburg town houses in the 18th century. In: Haindl, Georg (editor): The art of living. An 18th century Augsburg adhesive album. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-07040-0 , pages 30 ff.
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '58.3 " N , 10 ° 53' 57.6" E