Stellwaghaus

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The renaissance gable
The portal with the alliance coat of arms

The Stellwaghaus Am Markt No. 4 in Schwäbisch Hall is an old house that was owned by members of the Stellwag family for a long time. It is used today by the city of Schwäbisch Hall.

history

The Stellwaghaus was probably built on the site of a previous building, an early Salian manor.

Between the two current houses at Am Markt 4 and 5, the Ratsbüttel's house was still located in the 16th century and they had not yet been assembled. House No. 4, a medieval three-storey stone house, which received a curved gable in the Renaissance and a new portal in the Baroque era , belonged to the Franciscan monastery until 1524 and at times also served as a Latin school . In 1544, after the secularization of the monastery, it was sold by the council of the imperial city of Hall to Georg Gainbach, who was a member of the inner council. Later it was owned by Georg Friedrich Seiferheld , whose heirs sold it in 1692 to Leonhard Friedrich Textor, who was also a member of the Inner Council. In 1717 the site master Johann David Stellwag was the owner of the building, then Johann Christoph David Stellwag and then his brother Georg Friedrich Stellwag, finally Frau Stadtschultheiß Stellwag in 1767 and Johann David Stellwag in 1782. He was also a member of the Inner Council.

During the time it was owned by the Stellwag family, the house was redesigned: On the east side, a late Baroque jewelry portal, which can be reached via an outside staircase, was installed. It is labeled "LG Cuithus 1779". An alliance coat of arms of the homeowners was attached above. The heraldic right coat of arms stands for Johann David Stellwag (1735–1789), the left one belongs to his wife Maria Magdalena Bonhöffer (1744–1794). Another coat of arms is painted on the hatch in the gable, but it seems to belong to a different family.

The next owner after the members of the Stellwag family was the site master Friedrich Gottlob from the Jemgumer Closter, followed by N. Braz. His widow sold the house in 1825 to the merchant Eberhard Bühler, who must have died shortly afterwards. His widow inherited the house; her descendants sold it to Robert Dürr in 1861, who owned it until at least 1905.

Robert Dürr made some changes to the house. In 1865 he was allowed to add a balcony towards the port market, which rested on consoles, in 1879 a new window was created on the ground floor on the south side of the house as part of a modernization of the sanitary facilities.

On October 8, 1925, the Stellwaghaus was entered in the state directory of architectural monuments in Württemberg.

One of Dürr's successors, Hubert Mühlbauer, protested in 1939 against the removal of the balcony that was attached in 1865, which was no longer considered safe. Even then, funds from the State Office for Monument Preservation were promised to finance the demolition work. In the same year the house was connected to the sewer system.

On November 5, 1942, the Jew Golda Laja Rener came to Schwäbisch Hall. Disguised as a Polish slave laborer, she lived in the house for a short time, but was evidently quickly exposed, handed over to the Gestapo in Stuttgart on November 19, 1942 and deported to Auschwitz, where she was murdered in March 1943.

In 1943 the second floor was rebuilt, and in 1949 an advertising sign for the tobacco wholesaler K. Gengenbach, which was then in the house, was put up.

In 1955 Mühlbauer again received a grant to renovate the house. At that time the masonry of the building was exposed; Furthermore, the baroque portal facing the market was repaired, the baroque gable to the market was renewed and provided with a cover made of gilded copper sheet and the roof house was repaired. A historicizing balcony, which was initially also planned, was not allowed to be installed. In the course of the renovation work, the house also received central heating.

  • Sketch of the houses at Am Markt 4 and 5

  • At the market after the city fire

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Description of the house on www.welt-der-wappen.de
  2. ↑ Directory of buildings at www.schwaebischhall.de

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 43.3 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 13.4"  E