Summer house of the Teutonic Order Heilbronn
The summer house of the Teutonic Order is a baroque building at Kolpingstrasse 4 in Sontheim , which was built in 1688 as a summer residence for the Heilbronn Teutonic Order Commander, later the administration building of the Ackermann twisting mill and today houses the local Kolping Society . The building stands as a cultural monument under monument protection .
history
In 1688 the Commander of the Teutonic Order , Georg Adolph Speth Freiherr von und zu Schülzburg, built a summer residence for the Heilbronn Teutonic Order Commandery . The summer house was originally a two-storey building and after its construction has been used as quarters for generals several times. In 1693 Sontheim was the quarters of Margrave Christian Ernst von Brandenburg-Bayreuth, during the Polish War of Succession in the 1730s Prince Eugene of Savoy was a guest in the summer house, and in 1746 the Imperial Field Marshal Prince Lobkowiss made a guest appearance there.
After the mediatization of the Teutonic Order in 1805, the property was sold and served as an inn. The theologian David Friedrich Strauss and his wife, the singer Agnes Schebest , lived there from 1842 to 1843 . The marriage was not a lucky star, so that Strauss moved into his own apartment in Heilbronn in 1843. Agnes Schebest stayed in the building until 1846/47, where the two children from the union were born in 1843 and 1845. A longer description of the furnishings of the building from that time has been preserved in the report From the Present by the writer Emma von Niendorf in the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung of September 30, 1842.
In 1868 the building came into the possession of the Heilbronn industrialist Bruckmann of the Ackermann twisting mill , which used it as the administrative building for the surrounding factories. Ackermann had the building raised by another upper floor and enriched the building with a mezzanine , a hipped roof and dormers . In 1903 Hermann Maute and Theodor Moosbrugger rebuilt the building again. In 1986 the building was refurbished and received a rear structure on the back. Today the building serves as a Kolping House .
description
The former two-story, since 1868 three-story baroque building with an ornamental gable and ox-eye has seven street-side windows on each floor. Above the portal on the facade facing the Neckar bank is a balcony resting on two pillars. Between the two columns is the coat of arms of Commander Georg Adolf von Speth: three wolf fishing rods in the shield, which is underlaid by another shield with the Teutonic Cross. The twisting mill based its company logo (crossed keys) on the coat of arms of the Teutonic Order Commander, whereby the wolf fish was wrongly interpreted as a key.
literature
- Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg . Volume I.5: Heilbronn district. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 257 .
- Helmut Schmolz , Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures. Volume 1: Photos from 1860 to 1944. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1966
- Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures. Volume 2: Photos from 1858 to 1944. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1967
- Eugen Knupfer (edit.): Document book of the city of Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1904 ( Württemberg historical sources . N. F. 5)
- Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1901/1903
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 13.3 " N , 9 ° 11 ′ 29.5" E