Weidlehaus
The Weidlehaus is a free-standing hipped roof building on Residenzplatz in Kempten (Allgäu) . The neo-classical building with bat dormers was built in 1833, it is under monument protection with the address Königstraße 25 (D-7-63-000-110). The Bachschmidhaus is in the immediate vicinity .
The three-story building has five window axes per facade. On the ground floor there are large-scale shop windows in the classic plaster cuboid since 1959. The upper floors have a smooth plaster with corner pilaster strips . There are arched windows on the first floor and rectangular windows in the second.
At times, the building was home to the city's natural history collection (the so-called Reiser collection ) and the office of the home keeper Alfred Weitnauer . The Weidlehaus is now part of the surrounding business premises of the Sparkasse Allgäu .
Weidlehaus in Kempten (photo from the southeast)
Weidlehaus in Kempten (photo from the north)
Weidlehaus in Kempten (plaque with details of the namesake)
Weidlehaus in Kempten (plaque with details on Alfred Weitnauer)
literature
- Alexander Duke of Württemberg: City of Kempten (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.85 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , p. 44 .
- Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 437.
Web links
- Photo of the Weidlehaus before the renovation in 1959 by Lala Aufsberg
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 38.7 " N , 10 ° 18 ′ 47.1" E