Leaning House (Idstein)
The Leaning House in the former Nassau residence town of Idstein in the Taunus is a listed half-timbered house .
Location and description
The Leaning House characterizes König-Adolf-Platz . It is addressed with Rodergasse 1/3 . The double house number can be traced back to the building history, which included an extensive extension.
The building stands next to the town hall in the area of the former neck ditch of Idstein Castle . In the immediate vicinity is the archway building from 1497 with the stone bridge from 1566. The crooked house has four floors with two gables . A single-axis, narrow mansard roof is arranged between the gables . With its vertically emphasized proportions, the house is unusual for Idstein. Both gables have carved, beam-bearing pillars and a scroll ornament. On the ground floor used to be a drive-through with gate available, after which the surviving than Stichbogen engineered overthrow suggesting.
At the time of construction, the building is in the transition phase between traditional craftsmanship and engineering construction. Corresponding, for the time modern structural features can be seen, such as the mansard roof. It can also be assumed that the building was not designed as a half-timbered structure, but as a plastered structure. At the time when the building was built, half-timbering was considered rural and unfashionable.
history
Due to the defense requirements that resulted from the location of the property in front of the fortifications of Idstein Castle, building was not possible for a long time. With the change of the castle to the palace, the use became possible. A previous building is documented in writing for the first time in 1627. However, more detailed information on this building is not available.
On July 22nd, 1727, the Major of the Landmilitia, Johann Jacob Nicoley - at the same time he was the governor of Prince Georg August Samuel von Nassau-Idstein - was allowed to erect the building as his home, into which he moved in 1728. Around 1740/42 he left it to his son-in-law Andreas Abel, a pharmacist, who also had one built into it. 1764 is registered as the owner of the upper office secretary Johann Hartmann Strack, also a son-in-law of Nicoley. Strack sold part of the property to Daniel Hölck in 1768, which is due to the double numbering. This was followed by changing ownership and structural changes to both halves until house number 3 was purchased in 1861 by the cutler Carl Nau. His son Fritz Nau bought house number 1 in 1908, so that the building came back into the possession of a single party. Minna Nau, Fritz Nau's widow, had extensive renovation work carried out in 1925. In this move, the half-timbering that had been plastered up until then was exposed, which completely changed the look of the house. In 1959 the building was sold by Karl and Heinrich Nau. Changing ownership and uses followed until the city of Idstein acquired the house in 1980. In the years 1995 to 1997, extensive renovation work and a structural historical study were carried out again.
Oddities
- The facade of the building bears the trade mark of a cutler with the year 1527. Who made this mark and when it was attached can no longer be traced. It is assumed, however, that the Idstein wood sculptor and plasterer Ferdinand Abt made the work in the course of the renovation in 1925, who was in a group around the painter Ernst Toepfer . This group dealt with the design of the old town and the exposure of half-timbered buildings in Idstein, but created some curiosities in the process, such as at the Höerhof . The year 1527 has no historical connection with the building.
- After the construction of the house, the local torture chamber had to be relocated from the Idstein town hall to the arched building. This was because the new building made the chamber so dark that torture could no longer be carried out here. This also meant that torture was no longer so public and that there was no crowd in front of the town hall.
literature
- Magistrate of the city of Idstein, The history of the crooked house in Idstein 1727-1997 , Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, Idstein 1997, ISBN 3-8248-0252-X
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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 17 ″ N , 8 ° 16 ′ 9.7 ″ E