Schöntaler Hof (Heilbronn)

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Schoentalerhof, Schlehenried, 1658 (source Heilbronn city archive)
The Schöntaler Hof (8) and the remaining former care yards in Heilbronn are marked on a city map from 1834
Inscription stone in memory of the presence of Emperor Charles V in 1546/47, today kept in the Heilbronn Lapidarium

The Schöntaler Hof was a historical care yard of the Schöntal Monastery in the imperial city of Heilbronn . The courtyard, which was donated to the monastery in 1311, was located southwest of the Deutschhof . The buildings and land there were owned by the monastery until the secularization of 1802/03. A large part of the area was later rebuilt by the Peter Bruckmann & Sons silver goods factory . The last historical structural remains were destroyed in the air raid on December 4, 1944 . Today the courtyard area is built over with the Stadtgalerie Heilbronn shopping center .

history

The beginnings of the Schöntaler Hof (formerly Kubelscher Hof) are documented with a notarized donation for the year 1311, when the Heilbronn citizen Konrad Kubel donated his court to the Schöntal and Oberstenfeld monasteries , whereby Oberstenfeld sold his share to the Schöntal monastery in 1314. The Schöntal monastery had already owned a fruit box in the city of Heilbronn before 1311 and acquired other goods in the city in the 14th century. In 1356, the Würzburg diocesan bishop permitted the construction of an All Saints' Chapel in the monastery courtyard, which was consecrated the following year. In 1399 the Schöntal Monastery bought itself free of all tax and official duties towards the city of Heilbronn for 600 guilders. This exemption was valid until 1516, when the city was able to benefit from taxes and official duties again in return for payment of the same amount.

During the time of the German Peasants' War , the Abbot of Schöntal found refuge in the Schöntaler Hof. On May 12, 1525, the farm was used as a conference venue for the farmers 'parliament and the farmers' chancellor Wendel Hipler . Emperor Karl V stayed in the Schöntaler Hof in 1546/1547 as did Emperor Maximilian II in 1570. An old inscription stone, which is kept in the Heilbronn Lapidarium, commemorates the stay of Karl V.

The Schöntal abbot Johannes Lurz (1584–1607) had the main building renewed in 1595. It was a three-storey Renaissance building with a floor area of ​​16 by 13.30 meters. The columns of the cardinal virtues were on the Renaissance facade . Both the ground floor and the two gable walls were made of stone. A new transverse building was built under Abbot Theobald in 1614. During the Thirty Years' War the Schöntal Monastery temporarily fell to the Swedish occupation troops, who enfeoffed the Counts of Hohenlohe . From 1632 to 1635, Count Kraft von Hohenlohe also came into the possession of the court in Heilbronn, which, however, he returned to the monastery in the further course of the war.

The buildings of the Schöntaler Hof and its exact extent can no longer be fully reconstructed today, as extremely small changes in the property and building stock have repeatedly occurred over the course of time and the documented courtyard buildings can no longer be located. Older sources usually show the entire area between Allerheiligengasse, Metzgergasse and Deutschhausstraße as the area of ​​the Schöntaler Hof. According to recent research, however, the courtyard only comprised an L-shaped structure of land and buildings, but not the parcels located directly on the corner of Allerheiligengasse and Deutschhofstrasse. In the period from around 1700 to 1804, the Heilbronn post office was also housed in that quarter before it moved to the Falken inn due to lack of space . After the secularization of the Schöntal monastery in 1802/03, the former monastery properties in Heilbronn were parceled out by the Württemberg state and sold to private interested parties until 1819. The majority of the quarter was acquired by the Peter Bruckmann & Söhne silver goods factory between 1809 and 1884 , which rebuilt large parts of the area.

The entire development of the area was destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn . The southern wall of the Schöntaler Hof at Deutschhofstraße 13, which was the only historical part of the facade to survive the air raid, was blown up on January 25, 1949. A stone plaque on the north wall, commemorating the stay of Emperor Charles V in 1546/1547 in the Schöntaler Hof, and a console from the 16th century were recovered from the demolition.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dumitrache / Haag, Archaeological City Register ... , p. 106 [Schöntaler Hof / Oberstenfelder Hof, removed]
  2. ↑ Haag 2003, p. 91.
  3. ↑ Haag 2003, p. 91/92.
  4. ↑ Haag 2003, p. 92.
  5. ↑ Haag 2003, p. 93.
  6. ↑ Dumitrache / Haag, Archäologischer Stadtkataster ... , p. 107 [Main building Schöntaler Hof / Landvogteigebuilding / tavern belonging to the German house, removed]
  7. ↑ Haag 2003, p. 104.
  8. ↑ Haag 2003, p. 93.
  9. ^ Renz / Schlösser, Chronik Heilbronn ... 1945–1951 , p. 298

literature

  • Simon M. Haag: Contributions to Heilbronn city topography , in: Heilbronnica 2, Contributions to city history , Heilbronn 2003, to the Schöntaler Hof pp. 89–117.
  • Marianne Dumitrache, Simon M. Haag: Heilbronn (=  Archaeological City Register Baden-Württemberg . Volume 8 ). Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-927714-51-8 .
  • Karl Greiner: On the history of the Heilbronner Post . In: Württemberg Postal History . Issue 28, 1992.
  • Alexander Renz: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn. Volume VI: 1945–1951 (=  publications of the Heilbronn City Archives . Volume 34 ). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-928990-55-1 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 25 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E