Webergasse 18 (Esslingen)

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Dog or wolf as house decoration
Detail of the bearing stone
entrance

House Webergasse 18 in Esslingen am Neckar , also known as the "House with the Wolf", is a town house from the 15th century.

description

Under the house there is an older vaulted cellar, onto which the ground floor of the house at the corner of Weber- and Wolfgasse was built in solid construction. On the street side, this ground floor has large, arched entrance gates. The two upper floors and the three-storey roof were built in half-timbered construction and are partly unplastered; Typical of the time are the stiffeners with flattened ribbons and struts as well as carved lugs . The half-timbered part of the house protrudes on all sides.

At the western corner of the building, on a console, there is a figurative bearing stone on which the roughly life-size sculpture of a leashed wolf or dog stands. The old courtyard enclosure in the form of a quarry stone wall has been preserved on the south side of the house.

Dating of individual components

The steep gable construction can be dated to 1433/34. The year 1523 can be found on a cellar window, which does not seem to indicate the year of construction, but only to structural changes to the house. The three-wing framed door with an antique bust in the skylight dates from the 18th century.

literature

  • Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 283

Individual evidence

  1. Another house that was adorned with a wolf sculpture up into the 20th century is the "Haus zum Wolf" at Heugasse 15, cf. Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 132.

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 33.9 "  N , 9 ° 18 ′ 36.8"  E