Watchmaker's house
Uhrmachers Haus (also Uhrmacher Otto's house ) is a former farmhouse at Engelfanger Straße 3 in the Püttlingen district of Köllerbach and the seat of the Saarland Clock Museum. The building is a listed building and is part of the Barockstraße SaarPfalz .
history
The house at Engelfanger Straße 3 was built in 1814/15 by the watchmaker Johann Peter Frantz on the foundations of the former sheep farm of Bucherbach Castle in the style of a south-west German side-by-side house. When Otto Wilhelm Franz, the last watchmaker in the Fran (t) z family, died in 1985, the family donated the house to the city of Püttlingen in 1985.
architecture
The southwest German single house with a gable roof stands across the street. In the front area is the house, behind it the barn. On the gable side there is a side entrance and a large sundial. The house has 5 window axes with lattice windows and sandstone reveal. The facade between the ground floor and first floor is divided by a narrow sandstone ledge. Floor-length, narrow windows (possibly shop windows) were built in on the ground floor, but in some cases only the reveal remains. The barn has two large wooden gates.
The rooms are dominated by low beamed ceilings .
museum
Johann Peter Frantz from Walpershofen married Katharina Lautenbach in 1740, the daughter of the blacksmith, watchmaker and "manorial Meyers" Hans Dietrich Lautenbach from Engelfangen. Frantz continued his father-in-law's craft and founded a dynasty of watchmakers who not only repaired watches but also made them themselves. Due to this tradition, the house is popularly known as “watchmaker's house”.
In March 1989 interested watch collectors founded the “Friends of Old Watchmaking Art” and decided to set up and operate a “Saarland watch museum”. After renovation, the Saarland Clock Museum opened in 1992. The house has both a complete set of furniture and equipment from a rural household around 1900, as well as a fully equipped watchmaker's workshop, which the Franz family had run for generations. In addition, the museum illuminates the development of time measurement from antiquity to the present in nine rooms with around 1500 exhibits.
The old barn wing is used as a ballroom on the upper floor. There are also two smaller meeting rooms.
literature
- Peter L. Lupp, Axel C. Gross: Denk-Mal farmhouse. The story of watchmaker Otto's house in Püttlingen . Saarbrücken City Association, Environment Agency, Lower Monument Protection Authority, Saarbrücken, 1996
Web links
- Website of the Saarland Clock Museum
- Watchmaker's house , town of Püttlingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sub-monument list of the Saarbrücken Regional Association ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, p. 22 (PDF)
- ↑ Uhrmachershaus on the BarockStraße SaarPfalz website
- ^ A b Chronicle of the family and the house , Saarland Clock Museum
- ↑ They show 1500 treasures of time measurement , Saarbrücker Zeitung, 25 August 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '54.2 " N , 6 ° 53' 51.5" E