Spoiler house

The Verderberhaus is a multi-part, crenellated building complex with house numbers 2 and 34 on the main square of the town of Retz in Lower Austria . It is an early modern town house with a facade in the Venetian Renaissance style . With the various crenellations, the different heights of the Gothic predecessor buildings were compensated for.

history

The building in its current form dates from the 16th century. Originally there were three Gothic houses that were converted into an early modern house. The middle building was known as the "Gewelibhaus" (1437) before the renovation.

Today the building, crowned with dovetail crenellations, bears house numbers 2 and 34, the buildings of which are documented in 1532 and 1577. The eastern wing was the last part to bring the Verderber House into one unit. Its original cradle roof was a few meters lower than that of the neighboring previous building. Therefore, the addition was made with the raised battlements on the east wing.

The central tract shows ornaments, lion figures and coats of arms above the gateway, as well as the inscription “Hanns Fierenz von Goerz, 1583”. Hanns Fierenz's coat of arms is inscribed with his motto: "Everything with the times". Fierenz was a rent master of Count Julius II von Hardegg , by whom the house was brought into the present form of a town house "in Venetian style" . In a figural niche of the house part no. 34 there is a statue of Maria Immaculata , which is dated to the middle of the 18th century.

Surname

The building is named after the "Verderber brothers": Thomas Verderber (1792–1886) and Georg, Josef and Johann Verderber. The "Verderberbrüder" were merchants from the former German-speaking island of the Gottscheers in the Duchy of Carniola (today: Slovenia ) who moved to Retz at the beginning of the 19th century.

Web links

Commons : Verderberhaus - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Verderberhaus in Retz
Entry about the Verderberhaus in the lexicon of the Lower Austrian State Museum

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Weinstadt-Retz: History of the Verderber House , accessed on September 8th. 2009
↑ Georg Dehio (greeting), Evelyn Benesch (arrangement): Lower Austria north of the Danube ( Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 972.
↑ www.retz.gv.at , accessed on March 24, 2013

48.757277777778 15.951611111111Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 26.2 " N , 15 ° 57 ′ 5.8" E

[RG-1] Weinstadt-Retz: History of the Verderber House , accessed on September 8th. 2009

[2] Georg Dehio (greeting), Evelyn Benesch (arrangement): Lower Austria north of the Danube ( Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs ). Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 , p. 972.

[3] www.retz.gv.at , accessed on March 24, 2013