Schönborner Hof (Aschaffenburg)
The Schönborner Hof in Aschaffenburg , a baroque building from the 17th century, now houses the Aschaffenburg Natural Science Museum with permanent exhibitions and an extensive collection of insects, as well as a representative presentation of the mineralogy and geology of the Spessart and the Aschaffenburg City and Abbey Archives .
location
The Schönborner Hof is located in the center of the city at the upper end of the street Im Löhergraben near the Freihofsplatz stop at Wermbachstraße 15 ( Staatsstraße 2309 ).
history
The 30 meter long and six meter wide building, a city palace , was one of the residences of the Schönborn family from 1676 to 1832. It was built from 1673 to 1681 according to the designs of the Capuchin Father Matthias von Saarburg from Mainz . The courtyard was designed as a city palace for the Mainz Obersthofmarschall and Vizedom Melchior Freiherr von Schönborn and his wife Sophia Maria Anna, daughter of Johann Christian von Boyneburg .
The city of Aschaffenburg bought the Schönborner Hof in 1832 for 22,000 guilders. At first it was the court and administration building of the court of appeal for the Lower Main district. When this came to Würzburg , for more than 30 years from 1875 to 1906 pupils of the Royal Female Educational Institute moved in together with a teacher training college. In the further course of the year, several institutions had their headquarters in the Schönborner Hof.
- 1913 to 1926 the Städtische Sparkasse
- 1915–1918 military hospital and milk kitchen
- 1929 to 1951 city post office and elementary school.
During the Second World War the baroque complex was badly destroyed. After the reconstruction, the farm housed the commercial vocational school for years. In the 1967/68 school year, the 8th and 9th grades of the Aschaffenburg State Realschule, founded in 1965, and later parts of the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium Aschaffenburg were housed in the building, before it moved to Leiderer district in 1968 . The city and monastery archive has also been located there since 1980.
description
The baroque aristocratic palace consists of three two-storey wings, hunched on the front sides, which enclose an inner courtyard facing Wermbachstrasse. Here, two three-storey towers with a dome (hood and lantern ) are connected to the side wings , which are equipped with a main portal with two Ionic , mask- decorated columns that carry a segmented gable with the Schönborn-Boineburg marriage coat of arms held by two lions, as well as a side portal courtyard wall decorated with balustrades are connected. The windows of the buildings have profiled frames with ears . The ground and upper floors are separated by cornices.
In the courtyard on the left is the entrance to the Natural Science Museum, on the right the entrance to the City and Abbey Archives. The ground floor is used for permanent exhibitions, be it from documentations of urban history and regional art to vernissages by local artists. On the first floor there are administrative rooms, the regional library with over 60,000 volumes, a reading room, the city and monastery archives, a photo and graphic collection, as well as the press archive and the office of the Aschaffenburg History and Art Association. In the secretariat publications of the house are offered. In addition, there is a Graslitz memorial and information room set up by the associations of expellees in the building .
Schönborn house chapel
On the ground floor of the right tower there is a small, approximately 12 m² former house chapel of the Schönborn family. The entrance portal is made of sandstone with two flanking columns, and above it a large semicircular window as a light source. The simple barrel vault is divided into five medallions, the Holy Spirit in the middle and the four evangelists (as a half-length portrait) in the corners . On the left a baroque stucco frame.
The wooden baroque altar from 1681 is framed in white, two pilasters support a round arch. Behind it is a window with slightly colored lead glazing. In front of the pilasters there is an angel with the instruments of passion. In the middle is a Pietà (vespers group) with two crying putti . In front of the altar table ( canteen ) there is an antependium made of embroidered silk , on the altar there are four gilded candlesticks and a crucifix . On the left wall in the stucco frame there was a large oil painting, 1.90 m long and 1.00 m wide, which shows the nightly rescue of a drowning person from the Main. The backdrop of the city of Aschaffenburg can be seen in the background of the picture. The votive picture is now in the museums of the city of Aschaffenburg. A reproduction of the painting, which dates from the mid-18th century, has been on view in the chapel since May 18, 2018.
Stork nest
The house "Zum Storchennest" , which was later integrated into the complex and was built around 1600, is older . In 1699 the court and consistorial councilor Philipp Christoph Reibold sold his “peculiar, rear dwelling, […] called Storck's Nest […] on Erbensgasse” to Sophia Freifrau von Schönborn . The stork's nest is a two-storey stone building, the gable is decorated with dolphins' bodies. A male half-figure adorns the gable end. In the 19th century the building was used as an orphanage for girls and an institution for small children. A new connection building was created to the Schönborner Hof around 1840. In the basement there is now an event room that is used specifically for lectures, readings and cabaret events. The Aschaffenburg History and Art Association and the Working Group on People and Family Studies also meet here. A mineralogical exhibition of typical rock formations is located in the courtyard on Erbsengasse.
Exhibitions
- Complete overview of the exhibitions in the city and monastery archives (since 1984).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the building
- ^ The museums of the city of Aschaffenburg. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
- ^ City of Aschaffenburg: Aschaffenburg Online. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Ernst Holleber: Notes on the Open Monument Day 1996
- ^ City and Abbey Archives: Exhibitions. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 26 " N , 9 ° 8 ′ 52" E