Arnstadt town house

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Arnstadt town house

Stadthaus Arnstadt is the current name of the listed ensemble ( individual monument ) of the former Möller'schen glove factory , a half-timbered house from 1582/1697 and a factory building from 1903. The buildings are located at Pfarrhof 1 in the historic center of the Bach city of Arnstadt, directly opposite the former early Gothic Franciscan monastery , today upper church.

Name and position

In the townhouses of the craftsmen, traders or arable citizens of the grown European city of the Middle Ages , the Renaissance and the Baroque , work, living, public functions and lodging usually coincided. After an epoch of industrial use, today's users are again building on this variety of functions and expressing this in the new name Stadthaus Arnstadt : living, working, public use for encounters, for education and culture in the industrial building from 1903 and use as a Hotel in the historic half-timbered house from 1582.

Architecture and building history

Above a large vaulted cellar, probably up to 150 years older, a three-storey half-timbered house in the Renaissance style with a large and high entrance hall with a coffered ceiling, a representative plank room and ceilings painted with flower ornaments or diamond patterns on the 1st floor was built in 1582 after a major city fire . The client was Cuntz Friedrich, referred to in the sources as an economist , as the farmers were called at the time. In the portal of the basement exit, his initials are immortalized together with the stonemason's mark and the year of construction.

In 1687, Countess Johanna Elisabeth generously extended the house with a baroque extension with additional cellars, a piano nobile or bel étage and a large black kitchen. Johanna Elisabeth was a sister of the Schwarzburg prince Anton Günther II. , Sister-in-law of Auguste Dorothea , who at the same time began to build a baroque microcosm, the doll town Mon plaisir ; Together they were godmothers in 1705 of the natural scientist, miniature painter and copperplate engraver August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof .

Like the other floors, the ground floor is a half-timbered construction . Today the east facade facing the square is a visible framework, as is the north facade. The entire house was plastered by 1938.

The factory building, which was built between 1903 and 1905 - with the narrow side facing the square - is also three-story, but significantly higher than the half-timbered house. The ground floor and first floor are brick floors, the second floor is again a half-timbered construction. With this building, the Möller'sche glove factory expanded its production facility to include punching and sewing rooms. The load of the machines on the first floor was covered by a cap .

The gable facing the square was originally curved and richly decorated with Art Nouveau stucco. This fell victim to a renovation in 1938 as " degenerate ".

The buildings were used industrially until 1990. After 15 years of vacancy, both buildings were extensively renovated by private builders from 2005 to 2008 and 2013, after further extensions and intermediate buildings from the 20th century were demolished in 2005/06. The heavy industrial development and the vacancy resulted in static problems. However, it was possible to largely preserve, renovate and reconstruct the houses in their structure and the existing building fabric. The builders consistently rely on traditional craftsmanship and traditional building materials such as wood, reed, clay, lime and linseed oil (paint).

In 2007, individual craftsmen and building owners were awarded the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation from the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the Central Association of German Crafts. In 2014, the owners Jan Kobel and Judith Rüber were awarded the renowned Thuringian Monument Preservation Prize, "for securing, restoring and revitalizing the building complex Stadthaus Arnstadt, former Möller'sche glove factory".

Significant owners and diverse uses

Burkhard (t) Röhl was the owner of the half-timbered house from the mid-1630s until his death in 1643. Röhl was a lime polisher, as the plasterers were called in his day , a sculptor and builder from the Graeflich- Schwarzburg region . In the middle of the Thirty Years War he created the pulpit in 1625, the baptismal font in 1639 and the altar for the upper church opposite in the Mannerist style , as well as the stucco on the first floor of the Haus zum Palmbaum in Arnstadt and stucco ceilings in Sondershausen Castle . From 1697 onwards, Countess Johanna Elisabeth, already mentioned in the section on building history, was the owner of the house. After her death, from 1720 the next owner was the Arnstadt superintendent Johann Christoph Olearius , theologian, historian and numismatist. Olearius was the author of numerous writings, including the Historia Arnstadtiensis and preacher at the New Church in Johann Sebastian Bach's time in Arnstadt. As a numismatist and accomplished collector of rarities and oddities he was inspired by the concept of baroque Wunderkammer . He shared his enthusiasm for numismatics with Anton Günter II. Olearius' coin collection is now in the Münzkabinett in Dresden. His collection of Luther's first prints has been an inheritance in the Upper Church since his death. On the other hand, the building, Pfarrhof 1, went to his son archdeacon Johann Christian Olearius. Johann Christian devoted himself to his father's former library and published the first printed directory.

From 1822 the building was used as a girls' school, and the members of the Sparkasse , the first savings association in Arnstadt , found their first accommodation there. From 1870 to 1990 the house was the production site of the Möller'schen glove factory founded in 1864.

Concerts, readings and exhibitions have been taking place in the Stadthaus Arnstadt since 2008, and since 2011 it has been a regular venue for Bach: Summer in Arnstadt and Wandersleben under the artistic direction of Joshua Rifkin .

literature

Web links

Commons : Stadthaus Arnstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thuringian Ministry for Building, Regional Development and Transport - Arnstadt
  2. ↑ Frank Buhlemann: Culture Full Living in the 440 years old town house Arnstadt. May 24, 2013, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c From the past of Arnstadt and the surrounding area - Issue 17; Thuringian History Association Arnstadt e. V. 2007
  4. ↑ no stone bullet, deviating from the descriptions in the Dehio manual from 1905 ff.
  5. ^ Postcards around 1928. in: Reinhard Pahl, Reinhard Specht, Peter Unger, Arnstadt: Ein Bild-Postkartenlexikon , 2004
  6. ↑ In a letter preserved in the building archive of the city of Arnstadt, Mayor Hans Huhn expressly thanks the owner Paul Möller and Julius Möller AG for this "service"
  7. ↑ architekten24.de. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ List of the 2014 awardees.
  9. ↑ Historia Arnstadtiensis, history of the well-known Schwarzburg residence in Arnstadt, recently set up in two parts according to the most distinguished historical requisitis [research] and circumstances, published in Jena by Johann Bielcke, printed in Arnstadt by Nicolaus Bachmann, 1701
  10. ↑ Johann Christian Olearius, Kurtze but sufficient news from the public church library in Arnstadt, the same foundation, continuation and renewal also regarding its current condition, together with the list of books, as there is, 1746
  11. ^ Peter Unger, Andrea Ziegenhardt: 175 years of Sparkasse in Arnstadt , 2000, ISBN 3-00-005924-5
  12. ↑ Attractive early music for the Bach summer in Arnstadt - Thüringer Allgemeine

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 42 ″  E