Wormser Strasse 15 (Mainz-Weisenau)
The house at Wormser Strasse 15 (also: so-called abbess building ) is a two-storey baroque-classicist residential complex on the northern edge of Mainz-Weisenau with a significant impact on the townscape. It consists of two residential houses built at right angles to one another, the full building with half-timbered upper floor with a mansard hipped roof, built around 1759/60, and the classicistic plastered plastered eaves building two generations later. It was placed under monument protection by the city of Mainz in March 1990 .
history
The property is possibly related to the All Saints Monastery in Weisenau, in which 3 penitent women (reuerinnen) settled in the area of today's Wormser Straße towards the end of the 15th century . The order, which was under the monastery privileges, was conducted according to the Augustinian rules. The extensive property in this area ensured the livelihood of up to 30 sisters. From the middle of the 16th century until 1800 the monastery was then used by Franciscan nuns .
According to tradition, the house at Wormser Strasse 15, about 400 meters south of the monastery, served as the abbess's residence. The property also included extensive vineyards that were tended by a "Wingertsmann". Other sources say that the house was built in 1751 Wormser Straße 15 for his living and working place. It cost 278 florins , while a few years later the monastery wing caused a good 3000 florins to build.
In 1802 the building went into private ownership in the course of secularization . In 1832 the extension, which was perpendicular to the old building and parallel to Wormser Strasse, was erected, with the eaves and ridge height oriented towards the first building. The gable roof of the new building with its purlins abuts the hipped roof of the old building. From the beginning, the property was intended for both residential and commercial use. With the extension in 1836, the same owner, Haack, built a steam roller mill in the northeast corner, on which there is now a gas station. In the 1860s he sold the entire property to the merchant Balthasar Schröder (1815-1891), who had the steep slope behind the house partially removed and a park-like English garden laid out there. The overburden was required for the embankment of the Mainz – Ludwigshafen railway line in front of the house .
In 1919 the malt factory was converted into a cork factory, and another annex was built behind the house in 1969, which formed a kind of courtyard to the two old buildings. There was also a terraced fruit and vegetable garden on the slope. Across the street between the factory and the building ensemble, a typical four-story apartment building (Wormser Straße 11 and 13) was built in the 1970s, which is still in existence today.
Until 1989, the property with the house was passed on from generation to generation. After Balthasar's death, it was given to Carl Anton Schröder (1848–1896), then Margarethe Mathilde Metzke-Rovira, née Schröder-Sandtfort (1894–1975) and finally Paul Metzke-Rovira (1891–1982). The rear building from 1969 was demolished again when the owner changed in 1989. A 14-party house has stood here since 1992 (Wormser Strasse 15a and 15b). The main building was also used commercially until it was extensively renovated in accordance with the requirements of listed buildings in 2000 and today it houses a law firm.
Building description
There is a period of two generations between the creation of the two older buildings. The older, originally free-standing, almost square house to the north has four window axes in the main and side façades . With its slate- roofed mansard hipped roof and gable dormers, it is reminiscent of the six pavilions of the Electoral pleasure palace Favorite from the first half of the 18th century. The stylistic features, including in particular the ear framing on the offset courtyard portal, pointed to similar work by the stonemason Dielmann ("Thylmannus lapicida"), as he designed the house at Kapuzinerstraße 20 in 1744 .
The attached elongated gable roof building has five window axes and is harmoniously structured by a central balcony and above a dormer window with double windows. The facade of the structural concrete is plastered, pages has pilasters , an expansive profiled Holzhauptgesims and a antikisierenden tympanum in Zwerchhaus on which the original weather vane is mounted. The also original purlin rafter roof has a reclining chair and is reinforced by a St. Andrew's cross.
Despite many changes of use and changes of ownership, many valuable details have been preserved both inside and outside. These include a sandstone trough, an iron water pump from the 19th century, the goal posts with decorative vases (around 1870) and the ornate weather vane on the dwelling. The gatehouse (around 1840) to the south of the classicist annex, along with the baroque courtyard portal and its pilasters, was severely damaged by construction vehicles during the construction of the rear building in 1992 and subsequently demolished. Inside there is still a white Empire tiled stove and a neo-renaissance tiled stove with a Corinthian cast iron column, paved floor in the large entrance hall (1890) and wood paneling, doors with panels and a stucco ceiling with a ribbon motif on the upper floor in the central room facing the Rhine .
Despite the new building from the early 1990s, the outdoor area also gives an idea of the property's ensemble character: the green area has a rich population of old trees in an amphitheatrically designed area. A red beech from around 1690 and a slightly younger chestnut accentuate what is now the central part of the garden, while an arcade made of trimmed yew trees towards the street delimits a small open space with a three-shell, cast-iron fountain. The original garden area of around 1 hectare has now been reduced to half by the 1970s apartment block.
Protected position
By ordinance of March 7, 1990, the Wormser Strasse 15 property was placed under protection by the city of Mainz as a monument zone . The two residential buildings and the garden formed “a unique example of the conception of a free-standing building from the Baroque era in the run-up to the Mainz fortress and the changes in use at the beginning of the 19th century”. The abbess's house with the garden is of importance "for research into architectural and garden history, with particular reference to the 18th century". In terms of urban planning, the complex characterizes "Wormser Strasse in the border area between Mainz-Weisenau and the city center".
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Martina Rommel: Mainz-Weisenau - All Saints Monastery. In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz, accessed on December 9, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Ordinance on placing the monument zone “Wormser Straße 15 - 87 / 1.3” under protection from March 7, 1990
- ↑ Protection of the cultural monument Wormser Strasse 15 in Mainz-Weisenau , Mainz City Archives , AZ 15 40 20 W WoS15, April 22, 1991
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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 11 ″ N , 8 ° 17 ′ 53 ″ E