Zehnder's house
The Zehndersche Haus is a half-timbered house in the historic old town in Villingen .
history
The Zehndersche house in the Bärengasse was built around 1690 and belonged to the Dominican convent, which was founded in 1236 as an Augustinian convent and later became a Dominican convent. This was next to the St. Clara Monastery (Bickenkloster) . It was named after a patrician named Vetter, who welcomed the nuns around 1255, and also called the Cousin Collection . In 1782 the monastery was abolished.
In 1858 the cousins' collection was broken up, it consisted of the convent , the superior council and the collection church, built in 1720 , of which the choir on Bärengasse still existed, it was converted into a school, and together with the monastery of St. Clara, the monastery of St. Ursula was built, which still exists today.
The name of the house is derived from the Zehnder family, a long-established family. After the husband had fallen in World War I and the wife died, the house was passed on to the children's guardian via a daughter of the family, who in turn left only one daughter and one son, and the house was later sold. It was in a very precarious state until it was renovated by a community of architects in 1970. Since then it has been a gem in the old town of Villingen.
architecture
The half-timbered building stands on a solidly bricked ground floor, this mostly served as a warehouse or sales room next to stables, as was common in southern German cities; the apartments were on the upper floors.
literature
- Paul Revellio , Contributions to the History of the City of Villingen , 1964.
- Karl Jordan Glatz (Ed.), Chronicle of the Bickenkloster zu Villingen 1238 to 1614 , published as volume 151 in the series of the library of the Litterarian Association in Stuttgart , 1881.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Revellio, Contributions to the History of the City of Villingen , 1964, pp. 144 and 464.
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 37.3 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 39.1 ″ E