Stone House (Cheb)
The stone house in the Czech town of Cheb was a privileged base for the Cistercians from the Waldsassen monastery in the Middle Ages , which initially served primarily for trade. The name makes it clear that the building is the first stone-built building in the city outside of the Stauferpfalz .
history
In 1203 King Philip exempted the Cistercian settlement from Waldsassen from all taxes to the city of Eger. From 1242, the documents speak of a stone house. Johannes IV. Grübel expanded the warehouse into a religious house. It received a tower, bells and a chapel under Abbot Franz Kübel . Abbot Erhard I. Jakobi used the house temporarily as a retirement home after his resignation. During the Peasants' War it served Abbot Nikolaus V. Seber and his followers as a place of refuge and was a safe place to keep documents and treasures, which were thus kept from the influence of Count Palatine Friedrich II .
Despite the tax exemption, the city of Eger tried to levy taxes. The Waldsassen Monastery, which always produced and sought to sell food and goods beyond its own needs, therefore founded another trading branch in Regensburg and sought market rights in its own area, which was achieved by granting a weekly market on November 1, 1306 in Tirschenreuth by King Albrecht I. succeeded. Schönbach was posted on January 9, 1319 by King Louis IV. Declared a town, also received a weekly market and was awarded the city charter provided along the lines of Eger.
Individual privileges of the stone house survived the decline of the monastery during the Reformation. Palatine Count Reichard converted the house into a residential building with a locksmith's workshop. With the re-Catholicization after the Thirty Years War , efforts were made to restore privileges; if they succeeded, they had lost their importance.
The stone house is on Rotkirchstrasse (Březinova ulice) on the edge of the old town, near the Obertor, which was built later. The former west wing of the house no longer exists. In 2001 and 2002 archaeological excavations were carried out in the immediate vicinity.
literature
- Rudolf Langhammer : Waldsassen - monastery and town . Waldsassen 1936, pp. 125-131.
- Pavel Šebesta: The Eger stone house . In: Stiftlandmuseum Waldsassen (ed.): Ora et labora - Waldsassen Monastery 875 years . 2008. p. 21f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 12.5 ″ E