Sachsenheim House
The Sachsenheim House was a representative double building in Stuttgart that was built in the 15th century. The older of the two buildings already existed at the beginning of the century and was expanded into a large, four-story corner house around 1440 by the Minne poet Hermann von Sachsenheim (old Sachsenheim house). His sons, the lawyer Jörg von Sachsenheim and the court master Hermann von Sachsenheim extended the house in 1478 by an extension of the same height (new Sachsenheim house). After the death of the Sachsenheim brothers, the buildings were used as a wagon maintenance shop, city bailiff, residential building, Oberhofpredigerhaus, school for the poor and finally as a wine tavern until they were destroyed in World War II.
Cover picture: At the front left, Turmstrasse joins Schmale Strasse. The house at Turmstrasse 7 on the corner of Schmalen Strasse is the old Sachsenheim house. To the right of this begins the new Sachsenheim house with the bay window (Schmale Straße 3), followed by the high, gable-side main building of the former Bebenhäuser Hof (Schmale Straße 5).
Emergence
Old Sachsenheim house
The old Sachsenheim house was at Turmstrasse 7 on the corner of Schmalen Strasse. In its place originally stood a building of the Herrenalb Monastery , which was mentioned in a document in 1413. The minne poet Hermann von Sachsenheim rented the originally modest property and expanded it into a large corner house. The house facing the Schmalen Straße eaves consisted of 4 floors and a mansard floor, with the top floor protruding towards the Schmalen Straße . The representative building had 7 window axes on Turmstrasse and 5 axes on Schmalen Strasse.
Between 1436 and 1446 the house passed into Hermann von Sachsenheim's possession. In 1446 Herrmann von Sachsenheim bequeathed the building and the associated land to his second wife Anna von Straubenhardt. This included the property at Schmale Strasse 3, which he had acquired from Count Ulrich the Well-Beloved from Württemberg in 1436 , and on which his sons built the new Sachsenheim house.
New Sachsenheim house
After the death of their parents Hermann von Sachsenheim (1458) and Anna von Straubenhardt (1459), the old Sachsenheim house became the property of their two sons Jörg and Hermann . In 1478 they built an extension on the vacant property at 3 Schmalen Strasse. The four-axle new house was like the old one on the eaves and just as high as this one. A characteristic of the building was a bay window that separated it from the old house.
For the new house, the brothers were granted tax exemption "because of the good and loyal service that the brothers Hermann and Georg [= Jörg] von Sachsenheim and their forefathers have done and will continue to do".
During the construction of the two buildings connected by a gate, part of the old city wall was used, which later gave the houses the name “Under the Wall”.
Reuse
The use of the houses after the death of the Sachsenheim brothers is not completely passed down. After the death of the brothers, who both died in 1508, the property fell to Reinhard von Sachsenheim († 1560), the son-in-law of the court master Hermann von Sachsenheim. After the death of Reinhard's wife Anna von Sachsenheim in 1553, the houses were sold due to the division of the estate. The following table shows the further use of the houses.
| year | use |
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| Old house | |
| 1537 | From 1537 to 1811 at the latest, the old house was the seat of the Bailiwick. |
| 1655 | From 1655 the old house served as the Oberhofpredigerhaus. |
| 1799 | From 1799 a school for the poor was housed in the old house. |
| 1811 | From 1811 until the Second World War, the old house housed the “Unter der Mauer” wine tavern. |
| 1907 | Restoration of the old house by the city of Stuttgart. |
| New house | |
| 1553 | After the division of the inheritance in 1553, Duke Christoph von Württemberg acquired the new house and set up the stately wagon maintenance office in it. |
| 1578 | In 1578 the duke sold the new house to Hermann von Janowitz , who passed it on to his family. |
| 1673 | With the death of Hermann von Janowitz's grandson Friedrich Ludwig von Janowitz in 1673, the Württemberg line of the Janowitz family ended. In 1688 the new house was still owned by Benigna Veronika Schaffalitzki von Muckadell (1622–1690), the wife of Friedrich Ludwig von Janowitz. |
Both houses were destroyed in the Second World War in 1944. In 1948 and 1951 the remains of the city wall that had been used in the construction of the Sachsenheim houses were torn down.
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1. From left: Hauptwache (partly), Willermanns tower (prison tower), old Sachsenheim house (with cantilevered upper floor), new Sachsenheim house (from the bay window), main building of the Bebenhäuser Hof (with turret), house of the monastery keeper.
2. From left: rest of the city wall, old Sachsenheim house, new Sachsenheim house (from the bay window).
3. In front: the new Sachsenheim house (up to the bay window), on the corner of the house: the rest of the city wall (with lantern), next to it the gate passage through both houses. Back: old Sachsenheim house (with a cantilevered upper floor).
literature
- Kurt Bachteler: History of the City of Großsachsenheim. Großsachsenheim: Handels- und Gewerbeverein, 1962, especially pages 74–79.
- Gustav Wais : Old Stuttgart's buildings in the picture: 640 pictures, including 2 colored ones, with explanations of city history, architectural history and art history. Stuttgart 1951, reprint Frankfurt am Main 1977, pages 96, 160-162, 164, 175-176.
- Gustav Wais : Old Stuttgart. The oldest buildings, views and city plans up to 1800. With city history, architectural history and art history explanations. Stuttgart 1954, pages 22-24, 41-45, 49-50, 51, 52, location sketches: 31, 35.
- Richard Zanker: Beloved old Stuttgart. Memories and encounters. Stuttgart 1977, page 93.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ The Sachsenheim house stood roughly where the back building at Königstraße 27A of the former Karstadt and future Primark department store is today (as of 2016), at the point where the extensions of Schmalen Straße and Turmstraße would meet.
- ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , pages 41–45, #Bachteler 1962 , pages 74–76.
- ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , page 43.
- ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , pp. 41–45, #Bachteler 1962 , pp. 76–79.
- ↑ #Wais 1951.1 , page 175th
- ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , pp. 41-45.
- ↑ #Wais 1954.2 , pp. 41-45, #Wais 1951.1 , pp. 96, 175, 176.
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 32.2 " N , 9 ° 10 ′ 35.4" E