Schwarzer Bock (Ansbach)

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Hotel Schwarzer Bock

The Schwarzer Bock house is a listed building in Ansbach (Bavaria), between the Ansbach Residence , the former margravial chancellery and the court church in the center of power of the former margraves of Ansbach. Recorded in the list of monuments for Ansbach under file number D-5-61-000-334 . The building is the only house with the simple, bourgeois rococo facade typical of Ansbach , which is still preserved on the former city wall and was run as a guest business throughout. The Schwarze Bock is one of the few houses in Ansbach with direct access to the Markgrafenquelle, an early water supply for Ansbach. The Black Bock is connected to the Kaltenklinger Röhrenfahrt branch , which has the headwaters in the area of ​​today's Ansbach Clinic. While the historic old town used to be supplied with water from the foothills of the Frankenhöhe for the purpose of using both domestic and drinking water, today the water is largely used as service water or, in the case of the Hotel Schwarzen Bock, for the trout pools due to the low level of additives. The water pipes are maintained today by the Free State of Bavaria as the legal successor to the Margraviate Brandenburg-Ansbach . The water supply was paid for with a one-off payment to the Margraviate's cash register, the equivalent of which was roughly equivalent to that of a single-family house at the time; today the Free State charges annual fees.

history

Hotel Schwarzer Bock in Ansbach 2009
Baroque facade as it looks similar today
View of today's baroque facade
View of the original facade with smaller windows

The Schwarzer Bock house was probably built in the 11th century. With the new construction of the Gumbertus Church and the expansion of the Benedictine monastery , the houses along the northern city wall were also built. The foundation walls are part of the city wall in the rear northern part of the house and some of the windows of the guest rooms are former windows of the fortification bastion . The front main building dates from around 1500 with its post-and-beam construction. The large cantilevered dining room suggests that it was an inn from the beginning. The passage through the courtyard, which is too narrow for horses, suggests that it was not an upper-class client and the name Schwarzer Bock - the domestic goat was the porter of those who did not have a horse - confirms this. The location in the margravial center of power suggests a wealthy bourgeois client. In the 18th century, a bourgeois rococo façade was put in front, which defines the appearance of the building, while the structural appearance of the front was also changed. The originally small windows in the guest room and lounge area have been replaced by larger, baroque-style windows. This changed the number of windows in the guest room from five to four. In the 18th and 19th centuries there were a large number of breweries in Ansbach , and the Schwarze Bock was also a so-called house brew . Evidence can be found in historical views and postcards in which hops and malt are stylized around the building. Today, brewing is only done in small quantities on special occasions, making the Schwarze Bock the last brewery in Ansbach. Turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th century, the garden room was modern at the time mansard roof in place of the existing gable roof , as the room often used for events representative of the local cavalry - officer corps was used and civic associations. Today parts of the hotel rooms are housed in the garden hall building. The building is on the list of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments both as an individual monument and as an ensemble monument in the Ansbach Residence area and St. Gumbertus Church .

The house is located on Montgelasplatz, named after Max von Montgelas , opposite the house where Kaspar Hauser lived and where he died . It has a long tradition as an inn and hotel; Hotel Restaurant Schwarzer Bock has been managing the building since 2009 .

The Schwarzer Bock has been committed to sustainability and energy efficiency since 2009.

sustainability

Since the purchase and takeover of the Schwarzen Bock by the Appel-Fuhrmann family in 2009, a special focus has been placed on sustainability and energy efficiency . The aim is to turn a historic building under monument protection into a zero-energy house in the long term . As a pioneer, the Black Bock was selected by the German energy agency "dena" as a reference property in the area of ​​owner-managed historic hotels and inns and supported in the dena-check-in project in optimizing energy consumption and savings potential. Since 2009 it has been possible to reduce energy consumption by around 60% despite the building's monument protection and ensemble protection. In the Schwarzen Bock, the use of a CHP heating system, photovoltaics and thermal insulation have minimized the use of fossil fuels . As a result, despite its historical substance, the house was able to obtain the highest energy efficiency level in gold from the DEHOGA environmental check certificate by the Viabono agency . Furthermore, the house is a member of the Bavarian Environment Pact and is committed to giving preference to regional suppliers, to small-scale purchases from local farmers and to giving preference to sustainable products such as organic, works according to the fair and clean principle as a promoter of Slow Food and is a member of Initiative regional buffet from Middle Franconia , which cultivates the idea of solidarity agriculture .

The black goat in literature

Robert Gernhardt : A conversation in the hotel "Schwarzer Bock", Ansbach 1993. Published in literature as lust. Encounters between poetry and science. Festschrift for Thomas Anz for his 60th birthday (edited by Lutz Hagestedt).

Karl Arnold: Ansbacher youth memories 1859-1871. published by Verlag C. Brügel und Sohn AG about the Schwarzen Bock : “The innkeeper Mehring im Schwarzen Bock and his successor Joh. Georg Meyer were already famous for their sausages and baked fish, a fame that the Meyer family has had for 65 years maintains! One attraction at the moment was the new bowling alley in the Bock, which was heated, had marble flooring and rubber balls and was used by the carpentry club in winter . Citizens, civil servants and officers met over a wine on Sunday morning, there were as yet no casinos isolating officers in Bavaria; ... "

Franz Bonn mentions the black goat in the poem When I went in 1868 as a meeting point for dignitaries and local circles with the line: "... was in the circle and in the goat ..." . Franz Bonn came to Ansbach as a public prosecutor in 1862 after a previous station in Donauwörth and, as an Upper Bavarian, felt himself transferred to the government town of the Rezatkreis as a punishment. This feeling is evident in the poem When I Came To Read 1862 . In the farewell poem When I went in 1868 you can read thanks for the years in Ansbach and the step in his career - he is now a judge. Franz Bonn published since 1844 under the synonym v.miris , which means “it is from me”.

Famous guests

The black goat has a long list of well-known visitors.

"The" Black Bock "has a long tradition as the" first inn and hotel "on the square ... Celebrities from business and culture visit the house not only to stay during the Bach Week, ..."

- Franken-Magazin : November / December 2009 issue, pp. 45–47
  • Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
  • Ilse Aigner , Federal Minister, President of the Bavarian State Parliament
  • Walter Scheel , Federal President and Executive Chancellor

History as a social place

The Black Bock was the founding location of various associations and the traffic location of the local officer corps of the 2nd Uhlan Regiment "König" . The regimental chronicle of 1904 describes: “... the officer corps, namely unmarried gentlemen, frequented citizens, teachers and officials almost every day. There was also an evening drink in the 'Schwarzen Bock' every day from 6 o'clock, in which the gentlemen of the officer corps up to the commander often took part… ” . From the regimental chronicle of the Association of Former King Eulans in Ansbach: “… on September 27, 1899, 62 former King Eulans came together there at the instigation of Comrade Meyer, Gasthof zum Schwarzer Bock , and decided to found the Ansbacher Verein, whose first board member was comrade Karl Prächtel . " Note: cf. the name "Meyer" in the postcard image; the landlord Meyer des Schwarzen Bock was a former Ulane who was honored by Prince Regent Luitpold for his services to promoting comradeship.

On February 27, 1879, the voting meeting on the establishment of a hunting protection association in Ansbach under the direction of the royal Bavarian government councilor Schmitt took place in the "Gartenlocal zum Schwarzen Bock" with 34 people. On April 27, 1879, the hunting protection association Ansbach im Schwarzen Bock was founded with 65 members, the previously discussed connection to the Nuremberg association was rejected. The Hunting Protection Association was founded out of concern for the wild populations that have been drastically collapsed since the revolution of 1848 due to the lack of legal framework conditions and unethical hunting methods, for example for songbirds and small mammals in concern for nature. In 1929 the 50th anniversary celebration took place in the garden hall of the Schwarzen Bock , but in 1935 the hunting protection association Ansbach was banned by the National Socialists in the course of the Gleichschaltung and disbanded; the association's assets were transferred to the German Hunting Museum in Munich . Today meetings of the successor organization Kreisjägerschaft Ansbach take place again in the Schwarzen Bock.

In 1885 the Kolping Society of Ansbach, the Kolping Society, was founded in the Schwarzen Bock .

After World War II, the old gentlemen of the Cartell Association of German Catholic student associations met to found the local circle. After a long absence, the old academics of the CV returned in 2010 with their meetings in the Schwarzen Bock .

The Kunstverein Ansbach eV was founded in 1951 in the Schwarzen Bock.

In 1994, the Ansbacher Tisch of the Round Table service club was founded as number 140 in Germany and has been with the Schwarzen Bock from its inception until it was dissolved .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Hotel Schwarzer Bock Ansbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Brügels Onoldina by J. Meyer and A. Bayer, Book II. Ansbach 1955, p. 52ff.
  2. ↑ http://www.franken-magazin.net/ Franken magazine

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 11.7 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 25"  E