Sternhaus (Steyr)
The Sternhaus at 12 Steyrer Stadtplatz is essentially a medieval town house with a late Baroque facade.
History and design
After a city fire in 1727, the Gothic building was given a late Baroque facade with a continuous bay window and five window axes. Only the portal and the corbels remained of the Gothic facade . The facade conceals the gable roof behind it, thus simulating a building that is one story higher. Directly above the portal, two white griffins hold a gold star, above the window above the two coats of arms of Winterl and the Schoiber von Engelstein. The upper end of the bay is the gable with a painted relief of John the Baptist . The windows on the second floor are crowned by angels in round fields as allegorical representations of the five senses (left to right): a rose as an attribute means smelling, a bunch of grapes to taste, a mandolin to hear, a mirror to see and a snake to feel. The designer was probably Gotthard Hayberger . A bomb destroyed the left side in 1944, the shell of the building was reconstructed after the war and was given its present shape again in 1953. It was renovated in 1979.
Surname
The gold star above the main portal symbolizes the iron trade and is at the same time namesake. The lion in the Schoiber coat of arms (above the bay window on the first floor) also holds a star.
Interior views
Vault in the entrance area
Pillars with corbels
Gothic archway
owner
Mentioned as early as the 15th century, it belonged to the merchant Martin Schmidinger who was city judge in Steyr from 1433 to 1439 and 1445 . The house was owned by the Prandstetter and Guetbrot families in the 16th and 17th centuries, and around 1660 by Matthias Abele von Lilienberg , the secretary of the Innerberg main trade union and poet and court clerk Leopold I. In the 18th and 19th centuries it was owned by the tradesman Johannes and Theresia Wimerl-Schoiber, Johann Nepomuk Stohammer and Johann and Katharina Eberstaller .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Ofner: Beautiful buildings of our city in: Official Gazette of the City of Steyr, March 1970 p. 4 and 5 (article on steyr.at: Buildings: Star house and scan on Steyr monument: Beautiful buildings of our city , both accessed on July 22nd 2020)
- ^ Manfred Brandl - New History of Steyr. From Biedermeier to today, Steyr: Ennsthaler 1980 p. 45 ISBN 3-85068-093-2
- ^ Brochure Historisches Steyr , Korneuburg: Verlag Kellner 2007 4th edition
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '23.9 " N , 14 ° 25' 10.3" E