Presentable house
The Schenkbarsche Haus , also called Schenckbar'sches Haus or Schenkenschanz'sches Haus , is the oldest house in the town of Biedenkopf in Hesse on the street Bei der Kirche 8-9 .
Above a medieval vault with a Romanesque sandstone arch and a fortified tower, the original building was erected before 1254, at the same time as the earliest fortifications and the first church in town, as part of the "villa Biedencap". Five floors rise above it. The two lower ones, the so-called hall construction, were built in several construction phases in the Middle Ages as Burgmannshof . The current three upper floors were built in 1610 by Schultheiß Schenkbar, after whom the house has been named since the 1960s.
architecture
The three-storey building with a dwelling rises above a rubble stone base. It is built in a post construction and has a slate-covered gable roof . The upper storey and gable triangles on the front are also slated. The sides of the lower floors, which differ in height and in the half-timbered construction - clearly distinguishable from the addition in the 17th century - suggest different construction phases of the first two floors. The following dates were proven by dendrochronology : A repair on the north-eastern corner of the house around 1527, parts of the inner walls in 1577/78, the roof structure and west wall in 1610.
history
Originally the house was built as Burgmannshof before 1254 (first mention of Biedenkopf as a fortified town). The building is first mentioned in a sales document from 1365. Here the knight Crafft von Döring (see also Döringsburg ) sells his house above the churchyard to Kuntz Ruhl. Within the descendants of Kuntz Ruhl, the property was passed on to Paradies through the von Münchhausen, Knorre, Iwan, Im Hofe and von Bidencap families. In 1477, the Paradies family gave the estate to Ludwig von Hohenfels to inherit. The Gülte belonging to the court was sold to the Kugelkloster ( Brothers from Living Together ) in Marburg in 1489 and after the secularization came into the possession of the University of Marburg . After the noble von Hohenfels family (Hessian noble family) died out , the property was inherited by the lords of Breidenbach zu Breidenstein , who held two castle fiefs with associated houses at that time . During this time the property was still referred to as "Knorrengut" in memory of the previous owner Rudolf Knorre. After the death of Caspar von Breidenbach in 1541, his sons-in-law Hermann Schenck zu Schweinsberg and Hartmann Schutzbar called Milchling inherited the house and the associated courtyard garden. After lengthy inheritance disputes, Landgrave Ludwig IV (Hessen-Marburg) of Hessen bought the estate in 1575. From this point on, the house and the courtyard garden were continuously given to the local patrician families as a fief and later as an inheritance . Until the fiefs were replaced and privatized in 1815, the house was used as an office building for the mayor or the rent master . After 1815 it was divided into two halves, which remained so until 2009. The Schenkbarsche Haus acquired its historical significance from the multiple outsourcing of institutions from Marburg to Biedenkopf. In 1563 , for fear of the plague , the university's education department was relocated to Biedenkopf and in 1611 the seat of the Hessian state government was also relocated there.
During the Thirty Years' War , the Swedes demolished the roof of the house and set their cannons on it to bombard the castle where the imperial men lay.
The Schenkbarsche Haus was the only house in Biedenkopf to survive all city fires and plundering . Therefore, the Schenkbarsche Haus is not only one of the listed houses in Hesse, but also one of its cultural monuments .
The museum
Since 2010 the Schenkbarsche Haus has housed the Biedenkopf Icon Museum and a textile museum.
The Biedenkopf Icon Museum offers visitors the opportunity to find out more about Russian and Greek icons from the 16th to 19th centuries, with a particular focus on explaining the visual implementation of central Orthodox theology . There is also a considerable collection of pieces that illustrate the production of icons and icon fittings, such as training boards from painting schools and matrices for icon fittings. Another focus is on icon restoration .
In the architecturally significant parts of the house, the special features of the column construction are explained to the visitors. Since numerous architectural details were found during the excavation work in 2009 that illustrate the history of the building and use of this house, the particularly interesting walls and ceilings were left open. The Schenkbarsche Haus now also serves as the end of the architectural city tours through Biedenkopf, in order to demonstrate the technology of the post construction and the basic construction method of a half-timbered house .
Hessian Monument Protection Prize 2012
In 2012, the owners of the house received the Hessian Monument Protection Prize for the careful restoration. From the certificate:
“The current owners, Elvis Benner and Christoph Kaiser, acquired the building in 2009 and restored it with a great deal of personal effort. A carpenter was only hired for external woodwork. The owners carefully documented all the findings. Old windows were left or restored according to the model, old doors refurbished. Thanks to the exemplary use of listed materials such as straw, clay and lime, the renovation of the house is a role model in the area ... The owners have the Schenkbar'sche house, which is so important not only for Biedenkopf, but also for the history of Hesse, in an exemplary manner and with an extraordinary quality Commitment restored. The jury agreed that the builders deserved the Hessian Monument Protection Prize 2012 in a very special way. "
Monument Protection Prize of the Marburg-Biedenkopf District 2013
On November 12, 2013, the restoration of the Schenkbarschen house was awarded the first-ever monument protection prize of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district . From the district's press release:
“Donable house: The owners Christoph Kaiser and Elvis Benner have restored the house through extensive refurbishment and renovation work at great expense, but very carefully and with a feeling for historical materials and findings. The focus was on preserving and making the historical inventory visible. The partial use of the building as an open museum and cultural site means that the building history is made public and the building becomes part of the local public in the city. The house, which was very important in the history of the town of Biedenkopf, has thus regained part of its former importance. This approach was particularly appreciated. "
Web links
- Information from the Biedenkopf tourist information office
- Homepage of the Icon Museum
- on the history of the Schenkbarschen house
- PDF at www.denkmalpflege-hessen.de
- Monument Protection Prize 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Huth: Biedenkopf: Castle and city through the centuries . Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Biedenkopf. Wetzlardruck GmbH, Wetzlar 1977, p. 68 .
- ↑ HStAM, Urk 82, 622
- ↑ HStAM, Urk 45.2
- ↑ ZfhGL Volume 79, p. 138 + Volume 95 Cordus NF and Hessische Familienkunde Volume 10 and Volume 12, Issue 7 .
- ^ Document collection of the University of Giessen, No. 105, Regest Eckhardt I, 347 .
- ↑ UniA Marburg, Urk. 91, 204 and UniA Marburg, Urk. 91, 212 .
- ↑ UniA GI, Central University Administration 1, General. No. 671 - 763 (Income and expenditure Bailiwick of the Kugelhaus) .
- ↑ HHStAW, 171, Z 980 and HHStAW, 170 I, U 2138 .
- ↑ HStAD inventory E 14 G No. 2/1
- ↑ HstAM, Urk 49, 719 .
- ↑ HStAM, 257, B 341
- ↑ HStAM, 40f, 393
- ↑ HStAM, 110, 7160 and HStAM, 110, 7158 and HStAM, 110, 7157
- ↑ HStAM, 110, 7180
- ^ Contributions to the history of the hinterland Volume 2, 1985, p. 342
- ↑ Kreisblatt 1873, No. 44 of June 7, 1873, quoted from Karl Huth: Biedenkopf: Burg und Stadt in the course of the centuries . Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Biedenkopf. Wetzlardruck GmbH, Wetzlar 1977, p. 69 .
- ^ Contributions to the history of the hinterland Volume 1, 1985, p. 191
- ↑ Schenkbarsches house in Biedenkopf. Retrieved January 26, 2014 .
- ↑ The district awards monument protection prizes for excellent renovation and restoration work on the Schenkbarschen House in Biedenkopf, the Bahnhaus in Ernsthausen and Kattens Hoob in Rauschenberg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 19, 2014 ; Retrieved January 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 48.62 " N , 8 ° 31 ′ 44.52" E