Syndic Jägerscher Bau
The Syndikus Jägersche Bau was a property in Kochendorf (today part of Bad Friedrichshall in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg ), which was built in the second half of the 18th century by Georg David Jäger as a guest house and knight academy of the knight canton of Odenwald . After the property was used several times as a field hospital from 1795 to 1806, the main building of the facility was demolished in 1812. The two wing buildings on Binnetstrasse have been preserved to this day.
history
Jäger came to the knightly canton of Odenwald as archivist in 1750 and became a syndic after a few months . When the canton acquired ownership in Kochendorf from 1760 and the relocation of the cantonal chancellery there began, Jäger, who also leased the aristocratic estates there, planned to build a guest house for the expected 30 to 50 imperial knights, who regularly attend convents lasting several weeks Office would be located. Jäger received 5000 guilders from the canton in 1761, but had to finance most of the construction himself because of resistance from some councils of knights.
The building complex was built from 1761 to 1764 near the Kocher bridge in Kochendorf and consisted (after expansion in 1777) of a three-story massive main building with three apartments on each floor, servants' apartments in the attic and kitchen on the ground floor above a large basement, two two-story stone wing buildings south of it and Several outbuildings, around the main and wing buildings, forming a rectangular courtyard, such as a washhouse, bakery and slaughterhouse, fruit mill, stables, wooden and carriage sheds. The total cost was 65,000 guilders, which, however, had accumulated by the end of the last building expansion in 1777 with interest on Jäger's debt of 130,000 guilders.
The property was primarily used to accommodate and manage the knightly convent participants, but also as the residence and administrative seat of Jäger, who also planned to set up a knight academy in the property. Jäger was a trained farmer and, in cooperation with Johann Bernhard Basedow, wanted to convey to the noble landowners the economically successful management of their estates, as well as knowledge of modern languages, natural sciences, mathematics, fencing, riding and dancing. Basedow proposed the Württemberg court counselor Johann Georg Schlosser , Goethe's brother-in-law , as director of the academy .
However, the academy's plans were quickly dashed after Jäger fell out of favor in connection with the bankruptcy of the knight captain Meinhard Rüdt von Collenberg in 1777 and shot himself while fleeing in 1779. The property was confiscated and unsuccessfully advertised for purchase in 1788. During the Napoleonic Wars , it served as a field hospital for the Austrian troops from 1795 to 1797. In 1806 it was a French field hospital, in 1808 it came into the possession of the Landvogtei Heilbronn and from there in 1811 to the senator and lion landlord Merkle from Neckarsulm . In 1812 the central building was finally torn down, the remaining wing structures later came to different owners and are currently used for residential purposes.
literature
- Lothar Hantsch: The Jäger Building in Kochendorf . In: Bad Friedrichshall 1933–1983 . City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 1983
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '35 " N , 9 ° 13' 15.8" E