Unterlimpurger Strasse 81 (Schwäbisch Hall)
The house Unterlimpurger Straße 81 in Schwäbisch Hall (also known as "Hohes Haus") is a late medieval house, the construction of which was dendrochronologically dated to the last years of the 14th century. The building is known from the local art historiography as a "Gothic stone house". recognized.
location
The house is located in the Unterlimpurger Vorstadt about one kilometer southeast of the city center of Schwäbisch Hall on the eastern bank of the Kocher , from which it is separated by Unterlimpurger Straße.
description
The building is a three-storey, residential tower-like property. The two lower floors consist of plastered natural stone masonry, while the protruding second floor was designed as a half-timbered construction. The house is closed by a half - hipped roof covered with plain tiles with an owl hole under the ridge . On the southeast side there is a three-storey, dark-plastered extension, the second floor of which is open with large glass surfaces. On the northeast side of the ground floor is a low wooden extension with a pent roof .
The ground floor has three simple, high-rectangular window openings on the south-west side, while a gothic pointed arch gate is located on the south-east side. On the first floor there are also simple rectangular windows of approximately the same size on the southwest and southeast sides. The second upper floor made of half-timbered houses has a larger rectangular window on the south corner to the west and east. On the southwest side there is an approximately square window opening; there are also two smaller openings of different sizes in the facades of the second floor on the south-west and south-east sides. The top floor is boarded up on the gable side, with openings with a modern interpretation in the middle, which are symmetrically flanked by two small windows on the sides.
Inside, a timber-framed room with a vaulted wooden ceiling has been preserved on the half-timbered floor.
history
The construction of the house is dated by modern building research to the end of the 14th century. The timbers of the two stone basement floors show the fall year 1395, those of the half-timbered upper floor show the fall year 1396. The original function of the building, which was located in the Limpurg tavern area in the Middle Ages, is not known. From the 17th century at the latest, the house served as a simple residential building with one apartment on each floor. After its restoration in accordance with the requirements of a listed building, the building was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Prize in 2005 .
Web links
Files: Unterlimpurger Straße 81 (Schwäbisch Hall) - local collection of images and media files- Entry in the Schwäbisch Hall building directory , accessed on January 18, 2014
- Entry in the Baden-Württemberg building research database , accessed on January 18, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 70 ( archive.org ).
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '17.3 " N , 9 ° 44' 39.4" E