Mustard house

Elevation Senftenhaus, Obere Herrngasse 5 and 5a, 1874

The Senftenhaus at Oberen Herrengasse 5 in Schwäbisch Hall is an old residential and commercial building. The main building that has been preserved in a complex that has belonged together for a long time is located at Oberen Herrngasse 5, the much younger rear building had the address Obere Herrngasse 5a and no longer exists.

History of the main building

The councilor Gilg Senft apparently had a previous building demolished in whole or in part between 1492 and 1494 and the building with today's address Obere Herrngasse 5 was built; Wooden parts of today's house could be dendrochronologically dated to the years 1492 and 1493. In Senft's account book, costs totaling 362 guilders are recorded, broken down into demolition work, daily wages for carpenters and other workers, and the prices of bricks and bricks. Two guilders are also mentioned for the payment of two coats of arms, namely for Gilg Senft himself and his wife Margaretha von Rinderbach.

Because of these two coats of arms, which are carved on the corbels of the first floor, Eugen Gradmann classified the house, which at that time still had the address Obere Herrengasse 55, as Gothic.

From 1817 the house was owned by butchers for a long time and was therefore also used as a commercial building. This went hand in hand with a number of modifications.

A cellar porch to the right of the entrance was demolished in 1874. In the course of this redesign, the stairs were shortened and the room layout on the ground floor changed. A shop was set up to the right of the entrance, with a sausage kitchen in the back. A cattle shed was also built in the back yard.

Twenty years later the house was changed again. A room was set up on the second floor and a three-room apartment with kitchen and toilet built into the attic, and the stairs were renewed.

In 1896 the ground floor was rebuilt again. The shop was moved to the left side of the house, in front of the sausage kitchen, while an apartment with two windows facing Oberen Herrngasse was set up on the right side. The stairwell was also changed. Part of the ground floor apartment was later reintegrated into the retail space.

In 1897 an ice cellar and cold room were set up, which reached under the backyard and had access from the sausage kitchen, in 1903 another ice cellar was added.

A chimney renewal is recorded for 1932. Since the cellar was used as an air raid shelter during the Second World War , wall breakthroughs to the neighboring houses were made there in 1944.

The house has been connected to the sewer system since 1960. The sandstone facade below the shop window was renovated in 1999.

The baroque redesigned, plastered half-timbered house was entered in the state directory of architectural monuments in Württemberg on October 8, 1925 .

History of the back building

At the time when the property was used as a butcher's shop, the brewing kettle and a maid's chamber were housed in the rear building. In 1897 this old rear building was replaced by Wilhelm Stähle with a new building with a wooden shed. This structure was placed on the wall of the stairs between Oberen Herrngasse and Pfarrgasse and connected to the house at Pfarrgasse 12. It received massive foundation walls; the enclosing walls were partly solid, partly built with brick-lined half-timbering. At 4.5 meters, the wooden shed was originally significantly lower than the seven-meter-high rear building. In 1904 it was probably increased so that another apartment could be built. This back building and the courtyard property were sold to the city of Schwäbisch Hall in 1982 and demolished the following year, although the wall towards the stairs was retained. It had recently been in a desolate condition and was no longer suitable for residential purposes.

Owner and user of the main house

Gilg Senft died in 1514, his widow in 1532. At least until 1535 the house belonged to the son, Gilg Senft the younger. After that, the Tucher Dietrich Blanck lived in the house. His widow Ursula, b. Haug, brought it with her to her second marriage to Jakob Feyerabend in 1545. The Feyerabend couple fell victim to the plague in 1564 ; possibly the house was sold on as early as 1555. For the period from 1573 the town doctor Nikolaus Winckler is the owner of the building, later his widow Anna Maria, geb. Feldmatt, who died in 1623 and the house of her granddaughter Anna Marie Glock, b. Löchner, inherited. In 1646 the house was sold to the registrar Jakob Hoffmann, whose daughters and heiresses sold it to the mayor Simon Hezel in 1651. His widow brought the house with her to pastor Albrecht Müller in 1663. Six years later, the couple sold the house to the trader Johann Joseph Romig, whose widow bequeathed the house to the town clerk Johann Peter Romig, their son, in 1693. His widow lived there until 1741. Probably in 1742 the house was then given to the councilor Dr. Johann Friedrich Hartmann sold, who had two coat of arms stones attached to the ground floor facade.

After the Hartmann couple died in 1778, Lieutenant Johann Wilhelm Glock bought the house; his widow sold it in 1817 to the citizen and master butcher Christoph Ludwig Feuchter. The next owners of the house, Philipp Jakob Bullinger, Albert List from Ludwigsburg , Georg Michael Schramm, Wilhelm Stähle from Hall and Otto Kelle, were butchers and also ran their business in the house. A change did not occur until 1928. The new owner, Johann Jakob Beißwenger, lived in Geneva , the shop was rented to the Agricultural Housewives Association. From 1938 Johanna Frenz, who also lived in the house, ran a grocery store with a vegetable shop in the shop, in 1956 the business, still in the hands of Johanna Frenz, was referred to as a housewives shop, and in 1961 as a grocery store again. In 2006 the house was sold to the property and housing company Schwäbisch Hall mbH.

literature

• Paul Schwarz: The account book of the Haller brothers Daniel and Gilg Senfft from the years 1468–1507. In: Württembergisch-Franken. Yearbook. Vol. 46, 1962, ISSN  0084-3067 , pp. 17-30, here pp. 28-29.
• Gerhard Seibold: Houses and People. 500 years of city history using the example of a row of houses in Hall. Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia, Schwäbisch Hall 2007, pp. 21–34.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obere Herrngasse 5 and 5a in the building directory of the city of Schwäbisch Hall at www.schwaebischhall.de
2. ^ Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 67 ( archive.org ).

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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 15.3 ″  E