To the Golden Anchor (Kempten)

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To the golden anchor

The former Gasthof Zum Goldenen Anker is a high medieval building with a Gothic roof structure in Kempten (Allgäu) . The listed building has the address Ankergässele 2 .

history

The property was built two centuries after the city ​​fortifications were built in the 13th century. The roof structure was built between 1450 and 1500. Its construction is similar to the roof structure in the Vogthaus .

During restoration work in the early 1990s, which also included archaeological investigations, a medieval furnace was discovered.

Several names have been passed down for the house. On a blackboard by Otto Merkt , the house had the proper name "Zum Wilden Lochtörle", after which the hole management was housed until 1766. From then on the inn was called “Zum Goldenen Anker”. The reason for the renaming was a landlady who felt offended by the designation as "Lochwirtin". Thereupon she had an anchor set up in front of the now renamed inn and thus formed the name of the Ankergässele. Over the years, the derisive names fell into oblivion. The widening of the narrow Lochtörle next to the house also accelerated this process.

In 1963 Johann Schnitzer from the Allgäu brewery sold the house to the city of Kempten. After that, the house was used as an urban homeless shelter until 1988.

In 1988 the city sold the building to a private person, and in 1991 the archaeological research and renovation followed.

description

The three-story house on the city wall has a four-story porch facing the Ankertörle, which probably dates from the 18th century. The building has corner stones towards the Ankergässele.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ House board of the Heimatverein Kempten and Rotary Club Kempten on the house wall - content not entirely correct on the house board: Existence of a blast furnace for smelting iron ore
  2. ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 46.

Web links

Commons : Zum Goldenen Anker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 31.2 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 15.2 ″  E