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The Von Ingelheim'sche Palais or Ingelheim'sches Palais is a palace in Hauser Gasse 19 in the old town of Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill district in Hesse .

history

Rear view of the Mühlgraben , a tributary of the Lahn

A residence of the Lords of Bicken has been proven here since 1565 . It was used as a school for the Wetzlar children. The palace was built between 1715 and 1718 for Franz Adolf Dietrich von Ingelheim , who was a judge at the Imperial Court of Justice . It was a three-wing building that was completely constructed as a half-timbered building . The building was not only a residential and manor house, but also the center of intellectual life in Wetzlar.

After the owner's death in 1742, it was converted into the location of the Imperial Chamber Court, the seat of which it remained from 1782 to 1806. After the Reich Chamber Court was dissolved, the building was sold to the Prussian state in 1818 and used as a barracks until 1877 .

On March 25, 1879, the then Reich, Post and Telegraph Administration of the Royal Prussian Military Treasury bought the 160 year old house in order to better accommodate the city's post and telegraph services. In 1884 the new post office was built on the foundations of the previous building, this time in the neo-renaissance style with many ornaments and lavish decor . In the course of a conversion and extensive renovation in 1928, the building was rebuilt as a three-wing complex , this time with only short side wings that protrude slightly like corner houses. The narrow courtyard was almost completely closed by a single-storey porch.

description

The current two-storey, eleven-row, simple building is characterized by a large three-row central projection that accommodates the main entrance and is closed at the top by a broadly curved, half-closed frontispiece that extends far into the roof area and has three additional windows in the roof area. This was intended to remind of the original shape of the Ingelheim palace. A dormer window is assigned to each row of windows . The protruding corner houses have their own entrances. The wide main wing is traversed by a large parapet over the entire width .

Todays use

After renewed renovations, the building now serves as a registry office , houses a restaurant and apartments. The building is designated as a cultural monument .

Web links

Commons : Hauser Gasse 19 (Wetzlar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ palaiswetzlar on the page palaiswetzlar.de
  2. ↑ Eric-Oliver Mader: The last "Priests of Justice" , Akademie Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004090-4 . P. 13

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '23.4 "  N , 8 ° 30' 3.8"  E