Sword maker house
| Sword maker house | |
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| Data | |
| place | Weismain, Am Markt 13 |
| Client | Wolf sword maker (* 1538, † 1633) |
| Architectural style |
Renaissance & half-timbered 18th century |
| Construction year | 1611 |
| Floor space | approx. 200 m² |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 5 '5.3 " N , 11 ° 14' 25" E |
The Schwertmacherhaus is a half-timbered building on the market square of the Upper Franconian town of Weismain with the address Am Markt 13 . The oldest structure dates from the early 17th century. It is considered the ancestral home of the wealthy Weismain bourgeois family of sword makers . Under the number D-4-78-176-10 the house is protected as a monument by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . In the house is the Gasthof Zur Krone.
history
The house was built by order of Wolf Schwertmacher (* 1538, † 1633) in 1611. It has a massive base with a half-timbered structure . In the 18th century the upper floor was renewed and given a gable roof. From then on, the house served as the Weismainer Vogt's office building . It has been used as an inn since 1807. In the 19th century, the former gable roof was converted into a half-hipped roof . Lorenz Pregler founded today's Püls brewery as an innkeeper in the house. The beer type "Krone Pils" was given this name in memory of the founding of the brewery in the Gasthof Zur Krone.
architecture
The building has a massive ground floor made of sandstone with a plastered facade and profiled door and window frames . Above that there is an upper floor and an attic with simple, clearly structured half-timbering. The woods are painted brown; the fields are bricked up and plastered white. The window frames are profiled and kept in dark green. The roof facing the street is a purlin roof with a half-hip.
Others
A coat of arms of Wolf Schwertmacher is in the Weismain town hall. It bears the city coat of arms of Weismain and in the lower two corners the coat of arms of Wolf Schwertmacher and the family coat of arms of the burgher family Schönfelder, possibly associated with his wife. The stone with the year 1611 was probably originally on the facade of the swordmaker's house.
literature
- Peter Ruderich: Weismain's history of art and architecture from the 13th to the 20th century . In: Günter Dippold (Ed.): Weismain , Volume 2, Weismain 1996, ISBN 3-9804106-0-9 , pp. 81-200
- Bernhard Dietz: History of the “Zur Krone” inn in Weismain. In: Heimat-Blätter vom Maintal and Jura , 1930, no.20