Wadgasserhof
| Wadgasserhof | ||
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 Exterior view of the Wadgasserhof in Kaiserslautern |
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| place | Kaiserslautern | |
| Client | Wadgassen Premonstratensian Abbey | |
| Construction year | middle Ages | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 26 '52.6 " N , 7 ° 46' 31.8" E | |
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The Wadgasserhof is a former medieval hospital and is now part of the Theodor Zink Museum in Kaiserslautern's old town.
The building on today's Steinstrasse has its origins as a hospital with an attached farmyard, which the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen founded in the Middle Ages. Outside the city wall was the property belonging to the Wadgasserhof. On the ground floor there is a chapel that was redesigned in 1475. In support of this purpose, on February 21, 1476 in Rome, the Cardinal Bishop Filippo Calandrini (1403–1476, half-brother of Pope Nicholas V ), the Cardinal Priest Stefano Nardini († 1484, former nuncio in Germany) and Cardinal Deacon Francesco Gonzaga († 1483 , Son of Barbara von Hohenzollern ) an indulgence for visitors and benefactors of the chapel. This was done at the request of the local priest Bernhard Brim and the lay brother Peter . On June 4, 1477 in Kaiserslautern, the Speyer Auxiliary Bishop Johann von Isenberg († 1484) awarded the already consecrated chapel a further indulgence and confirmed its consecration for the Sunday after the Assumption of Mary .
After the Reformation was introduced in Kaiserslautern, the chapel was profaned . In 1619 the court went to Count Palatine Philipp Ludwig von Pfalz-Lautern, who acquired it from Abbot Johann Berus von Wadgassen. Garden houses and a brewhouse were built under his widow, who used the farm as a summer residence . After the end of the Thirty Years War , the farm changed hands several times. Around 1730 a stucco ceiling with bandwork ornaments and putti allegories was built on the upper floor . From 1805, after the farm was auctioned off as a national property, several structural changes followed.
When the Kaiserslautern old town was to be renovated in 1970, the courtyard, which was then run down, was supposed to be demolished. When the chapel was rediscovered, however, it was decided to keep it. The courtyard became the property of the city and was refurbished and restored from 1985, whereby a consecration cross was reconstructed in the chapel on the ground floor in addition to the stucco room .
Today the building is part of the Theodor Zink Museum opposite. Folklore and handicraft items from the museum's holdings as well as changing exhibitions are constantly on view.
literature
- Heribert Pfeiffer: In the footsteps of the Wadgasser Abbey in Kaiserslautern: Wadgasserhof - a piece of Premonstratensian history , in: Moritz & Zonen GdbR: Wadgassen Regional Plus 1/2007. (available online at http://www.heribertpfeiffer.de/images/Wadgasserhof.pdf )
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Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Documents on the Palatinate Church History in the Middle Ages , Munich, 1903, p. 223 u. 224, document regist no.542
- ↑ ibid., P. 224, document regist no.544