Romanesque House (Gelnhausen)

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South side to the market (status 2005)

The Romanesque House in Gelnhausen was built around 1180 and was the official seat of the imperial bailiff , the emperor's representative in the Free Imperial City .

Building history

It is unusual for the architectural epoch of that time and for a secular building that the building was constructed entirely of stone. The capitals are similar to those of the Palatinate . In the 17th century it was converted into half-timbered houses . Ludwig Bickell discovered the high historical value of the building, so that restoration work began after 1882. The half-timbered additions were removed and the building was “reworked” in a neo-Romanesque style - and in some cases falsified. The lower row of the arched windows that dominate the facade dates from this period, not from the Middle Ages . The windows there had been renewed in the late Gothic period. The neo-Romanesque additions were partially removed during a restoration in 1955.

The building is one of the few remaining Romanesque secular buildings within a medieval town center. It is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

  • State around 1180 (reconstruction)

  • State 1881

use

On the first floor there is a hall with a ceiling height of five meters and the remains of a fireplace on the east wall. The building later served as the town hall until the 15th century . Today it is the parish hall of the Protestant parish of the Marienkirche .

See also

literature

  • Ludwig Bickell : The architectural and art monuments in the district of Cassel, Bd. 1. District of Gelnhausen . Marburg: Elwert 1901.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district . Edit v. Folkhard Cremer u. a. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 . P. 364f.
  • Waltraud Friedrich: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse, Main-Kinzig-Kreis II, 2. Wiesbaden 2011. ISBN 978-3-8062-2469-6 , p. 619.
  • Anita Wiedenau: Catalog of the Romanesque residential buildings in West German cities and settlements (without Goslar and Regensburg). (The German community center, 34). Tübingen 1983, pp. 79-81.

Web links

Commons : Romanisches Haus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Meyer: Organ researcher, collector, preservationist, photographer. Ludwig Bikell, the first Hessian district curator in memory. In: Denkmalpflege in Hessen 1989,2, pp. 2–9 (7).
  2. ↑ Description of the building, location and restoration proposal , Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , April 28, 1883, pp. 153 and 154, accessed on December 17, 2012
  3. ↑ Friedrich.

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 33.3 ″  E