Wheelhouse (Memmingen)
The wheelhouse is a medieval administrative building in the Upper Swabian city of Memmingen in Bavaria .
location
The wheelhouse is centrally located on the market square (house number 16) and takes up almost the entire north side. To the left is the former fish market, to the right is the town hall and behind it the former Augustinian monastery with the inner courtyard of today's parish of St. Johann Baptist.
history
The wheelhouse was built in 1494/95 as the administration building of the then still Free Imperial City of Memmingen. It housed the secret council and the financial administration on the upper floors . There were shops on the first floor. The wheelhouse was followed by the four-story mint tower, which was converted into a staircase in 1863 and partially demolished. Until the end of the imperial city, the building was used as a wheelhouse. Since 1805 it has housed many different offices. Today there is a café and a jewelry shop on the ground floor. The city's social welfare office is located on the first and second floors.
Structural history
When it was erected, the building was single-story and had 20 rib arches. In 1522/63 three arches on the right side of the house were broken off to give the town hall a more dignified framework. In 1708 it was raised by one floor. When it was built, it was a mundane, exposed brick building. Today's neo-baroque painting was completed in 1909 due to the legacy of mayor's widow Rosa von Zoller and given a painted neo-baroque cityscape in the middle of the building. It connects the town hall forecourt with the western fish market.
Building description
Outside
The building on the north side of the market square has an arcade with round arches and is mostly painted in ocher . In the middle of the front, at the level of the first floor, you can see a city view from the end of the 19th century, otherwise baroque patterns with shells and rocailles predominate. The many windows are decorated with red geraniums in summer . The rear can only be seen from the garden of the former Augustinian monastery and has no windows. The front sides are decorated with baroque curved gables; Windows are only painted on. The entrance to the wheelhouse is the former mint tower.
Inside
Both floors can be reached through the staircase in the former mint tower. These have a narrow corridor that extends the entire length of the house. The offices are located on the right in the direction of the market square. The first door on the first floor is richly carved. The other doors of the offices are mostly more recent and have no jewelry.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Julius Miedel : Guide through Memmingen and the surrounding area. Volume 1. 3., revised edition. Publishing and printing cooperative Memmingen, Memmingen 1929, p. 81.
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 11.4 " N , 10 ° 10 ′ 51.2" E