Armory (Coburg)
The armory in Coburg is a Renaissance - style building erected between 1618 and 1621 under Duke Johann Casimir von Sachsen-Coburg . The building at Herrngasse 11 initially served as an armory , later, among other things, as a warehouse, theater, carriage and sledge hall and today houses the Coburg State Archives and a wine shop.
Building history
The building, which now houses the State Archives Coburg is located was in 1615 by Duke Johann Casimir of Saxe-Coburg as arsenal for the Duchy, so larger and more representative armory, to the painter and court architect Peter Senge foliage commissioned. Construction work began in 1618. An elongated, stately saddle roof building with richly structured Renaissance gables was created . Completed after three years of construction and handed over to its function, the building received an extension in the form of a small eaves side house with a dwelling and bay window by Giovanni Bonalino as early as 1624 above the passage to the inner courtyard with the remise west of the main gable . As early as 1632, Wallenstein's troops under Count Terzky invaded Coburg and plundered the arsenal. After these hordes were withdrawn, weapons and war implements were kept as historical showpieces on the first floor, which later formed the basis for the weapons department of today's art collections at Veste Coburg .
The other floors subsequently served as a wine and beer warehouse, theater, warehouse for the main tax office, and wagon and sledge hall. Around 1900 part of the ground floor was used as a sales room by a furniture store, another part by the calibration office . The property, which was part of the domain property until 1918, came under the administration of the Forestry and Domain Office when the Duchy of Coburg was dissolved . Since 1941 the Coburg State Foundation has been managing the property on behalf of the owner, the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes . During the Second World War , the roof structure and its covering were slightly damaged. When the damage was repaired, the old wood was used again. From 1986 to 1988, the interior of the building was largely reconstructed to make it usable for the Coburg State Archives. There is still a wine wholesaler in the northern part of the ground floor and the cellar.
Building description
main building
The mighty, three-story main building, which stretches from Herrngasse to Große Johannisgasse, has a particularly striking effect thanks to its two decorated gable ends, while the eaves side in Theatergasse with its eight regularly arranged window axes is rather simple. Between the armory and the neighboring properties to the west there is a backyard in the form of an alley that widens like a square. The three-storey gable roof supports a large number of three-row, staggered dormers . The corners of the building are highlighted by a raised wall over all three floors. The low left side portal on the ground floor of the gable side to Herrengasse is also framed by a raised wall, as is the main portal, which is also framed by three-quarter columns and a strong cornice. Simple, surrounding cornices separate the floors from one another.
The Renaissance decorative gables covering the gable roof on both sides are divided into three fields. In the lower and middle, four or two rows of windows, divided by flat Hermes pilasters, sit on low parapets . In the top of the gable there is an attachment with an oculus . The gable ends are decorated with volute clasps and pyramids. While the windows on the ground floor on the eaves and north gable sides are simple rectangular windows, the upper floors feature double windows with post divisions, continuously profiled with round bars.
The two-aisled cellar, which extends under the whole building, is vaulted by a sandstone barrel. The main entrance is formed by a wide staircase that leads down from the side portal in Herrngasse to the cellar. The ground floor also forms a two-aisled hall, the ceiling of which rests on seven Tuscan columns with a cross-shaped vault . Due to the current dual use of the house as an archive and wine shop, the ground floor was bricked up at about the height of the middle column. A stone spiral staircase in each of the south-west and north-west corners of the building lead from the basement to the top floor. While the stairs on Herrngasse are characterized by a winding spindle and have no street access on the ground floor, the northern one has one. On both upper floors, seven middle columns also support the room ceilings made of double truss layers, of which the one on the second floor sags due to its large span.
Outbuildings
The two-storey eaves side house, which was added to the west of the main house in 1624 in Herrngasse, has three window axes. The ground floor is dominated by a massive doorway with a wedge stone and double cornice, framed by thick corrugations. The house is particularly adorned with a finely structured central bay resting on a console with narrow side windows on the upper floor. Above it rises a single-axis dwelling with an ornamental gable, which, like the main gable, is divided into three by cornices and provided with volutes and pyramids on the sides. The courtyard passage with groin vault occupies the full width of the ground floor. In the rear, a platform staircase leads to the upper floor, which consists of a small hallway and a large room with a plank beam ceiling and girders . The top floor is only accessible via the main house.
literature
- Peter Morsbach and Otto Titz: Monuments in Bavaria , Volume IV.48, Karl-M.-Lipp-Verlag, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: Monuments in Bavaria , Volume IV.48, Karl-M.-Lipp-Verlag, Munich, 2006 - page 112
- ^ Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: Monuments in Bavaria , Volume IV.48, Karl-M.-Lipp-Verlag, Munich, 2006 - page 112, 113
- ^ Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: Monuments in Bavaria , Volume IV.48, Karl-M.-Lipp-Verlag, Munich, 2006 - page 113
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 31.4 " N , 10 ° 57 ′ 57.8" E