To the golden swan

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Historical floor plan (1861)
Construction status 2011
House sign above the courtyard entrance

The Gasthaus Zum golden Schwan is a listed historical building in Frankfurt am Main . It is one of the few houses in the city ​​center that was not destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during World War II .

location

In Frankfurt am Main there were two buildings named Goldener Schwan . One is the Haus zum Goldenen Schwan , which belongs to the town hall complex called Römer , the other - and described here - is a former inn in the former Friedberger Gasse 21, now Große Friedberger Straße 32, near the Konstablerwache .

history

The area on which the building is located may have belonged to the Teutonic Order as early as 1222, but no later than 1293 , and in 1433 it is mentioned as having a house with a courtyard and garden. As early as 1592, the building was referred to in a tax document as the Golden Swan Inn . In the 18th century, an extra post station was set up in the spacious building complex next to the restaurant . The property remained in the possession of the Teutonic Order until it was secularized . On October 5th, 1810, Prince Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis bought the inn "To the golden swan". from the order. The inn in the building was retained; in addition to the extra post that was in the property Poststallmeisterei the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post (the only Taxissche office in Frankfurt outside the Palais Thurn und Taxis ) entertained. Since the permanent assembly of the German Confederation met in the Palais Thurn und Taxis from 1816 to 1866 , the General Management of the Taxis Administration in Frankfurt was also housed in the golden swan from 1816 until it was moved to another building in 1833. In the course of the new construction of Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse, which ran parallel to Grosse Friedberger Strasse, which began after the Second World War, the part of the Golden Swan building complex comprising the horse stables was demolished to the east and replaced by a new hotel. The original core of the building with the restaurant was preserved, making it one of the oldest in Frankfurt.

Residents and guests

In the last years of his life, around 1735, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer had an apartment in the building and, as a Württemberg resident, also had an office with a horse stable and wine cellar. Around 1800 a Jewish reading society met regularly in the property. Around 1850 in the premises of the radius lived Ludwig Borne belonging Dr. Michael Wilhelm Reiss.

Modern use

At the beginning of the 1960s, in addition to a restaurant, the building was also occupied by a forwarding agency, a postage stamp shop , a cliché establishment , a grocery store, an upholstered furniture shop , a pedicure, a law firm and a bathing establishment. Since 1989 the house has been part of the building complex of the 5-star hotel The Westin Grand Frankfurt, which is part of the Schörghuber Group . On the ground floor there is a specialty shop for toys on the left and a Thai specialty restaurant named after the island of Ko Samui on the right . On the floors above there are hotel management offices and a law firm.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As such, not to be confused with the Hotel zum Schwan (also known as the White Swan ) in Steinweg 1.
  2. ^ Jörg Seiler: The German Order in Frankfurt . Elwert 2003, p. 26.
  3. ↑ Johann Georg Battonn : Slave Narratives Frankfurt am Main , Sixth book, Frankfurt 1871, p 69 Digitalisat
  4. ↑ Johann Georg Battonn : Slave Narratives Frankfurt am Main , Sixth book, Frankfurt 1871, p 69 Digitalisat
  5. ↑ Mentioned, for example, in 1798 as a place to rent stagecoaches, horses and wagons [1] . See also Friedrich Bothe: History of the City of Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt am Main: Sauer u. Auvermann, 1966, p. 499.
  6. ↑ Fried Lübbecke , Konrad Faber, Matthaeus Merian, Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp (ed.): The face of the city . Kramer 1963, p. 119.
  7. ↑ Stadtarchiv Frankfurt am Main, inventory of house documents, signature 141, bond dated October 16, 1810.
  8. ↑ See Archive for German Postal History , 1972, p. 94.
  9. ↑ Kurt GA Jeserich, Hans Pohl, Georg-Christoph von Unruh (ed.): German administrative history. From the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to the dissolution of the German Confederation . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1988, p. 270, footnote 20. [2]
  10. ↑ Hellmut G. Haasis: Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, called Jud Süss. Financiers, free thinkers, victims of justice . Hamburg: Rowohlt 1998, p. 91 and 93.
  11. ^ Manfred Pohl: Baden-Württemberg banking history . Munich: Kohlhammer 1992, p. 32.
  12. ↑ Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte: Nothing new in the West . 2003, p. 237. Digitized
  13. ^ Entry in the Frankfurt address book
  14. ^ Walter Gerteis: The unknown Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main 1961, pp. 75-77
  15. ↑ Allgemeine Immobilienzeitung from October 6, 2007

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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 11.5 ″  E