Guard house
The guard house was a listed building in Memmingen in Upper Swabia ; it was replaced by a new building in the 1970s. The name Wachterhaus was given to the house at Ulmer Strasse 2 by the von Wachter patrician family, to whom the house previously belonged. Today the administrative rooms of the Memmingen housing cooperative (MeWo) are located on the first two floors , the upper two floors are used by the youth welfare office, the forest office and the office for technical environmental protection of the city administration.
location
The house is located at the former interface of the old Guelph city and the Ulmer suburb within the old town. Until its demolition in 1883, the emergency center was adjacent to the house . Behind the house is the rear part of the town hall property on the east side, which is used as a parking lot. To the north, the inlet alley closes off the building complex. The Stadtbach flows east of the house.
Former building
The house, which consists of three to seven axes, was built in the 16th and 17th centuries. The upper floor was protruding, in the basement there were deep, arched niches on the western front. In the attic, the wooden walls were painted in acanthus frames with five allegorical paintings illustrating proverbs . They came from the beginning of the 18th century. The weather vane probably came from the 17th century.
Today's building
In the 1970s, the Memmingen housing association decided to demolish the old building and build a historicizing new building. The former arched niches on the west side were replaced by a corridor with rectangular concrete pillars. An arcade along the Stadtbach in the east was integrated into the house and built over. The griffin hole in the back of the building was also razed. The city stream passed the house. The painter Erich Marschner created a painting on the south and east facade with the history of Memmingen from the beginnings to the reconstruction after the war. The north-eastern corner of the house adjoins the former city wall of the Guelph city and the Ulm suburb. The interior is structured by a large staircase, from which the office corridors branch off to the left and right. There is an elevator in the separate entrance area.
literature
- Tilmann Breuer : City and district of Memmingen (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 4 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 51 . ZDB ID 256533-x
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 14 " N , 10 ° 10 ′ 50.3" E