Zumsteinhaus

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The Zumsteinhaus with the new facade design 2019.
Zumsteinhaus, front facade

The Zumsteinhaus is a listed building with the address Residenzplatz 31 in Kempten (Allgäu) . It was built in 1802 for the Zumstein de la Pierre family from Savoy and restored in 1959. The building, which has been owned by the city since 1951, housed a Roman museum (from 1961) and a natural history museum (from 1975) until 2015. From 2003 to 2015, the building was used as an advent calendar during the Advent season . Since 2015, the building has been closed for extensive renovation work and the establishment of the new city museum. The Kempten Museum was opened in the Zumsteinhaus on December 6th to 8th, 2019.

description

The Zumsteinhaus in 1900
Rear facade
Garden gate with perspective grille from 1830

building

The free-standing, three-story house has five to six axes and a mansard roof . The main facade faces north to Residenzplatz. The barred windows on the ground floor are adorned with square plaster made up of diamond fields with a St. Andrew's cross and a crown stone. The central main portal has a rectangular , barred window decorated with vases , which is shaped as a basket arch . The carved door is set with lion-head-shaped door knockers . Two half-columns next to the main portal are connected to each other by a balcony grid above the beams . The balcony corresponds to that of the second floor, which stands on volute consoles . Lions on the lower balcony railing hold a monogram with the letters VSZ. There is a vase on the top. Pilasters under the rectangular windows on the two upper floors carry three-dimensional volute capitals and pigtail hangings. There are rosette fields with fused ovals above the windows . In a flat triangular gable , the cornice, putti with pigtail hangings hold the coat of arms of the Zumsteins. In addition, there are two dormer windows with curved roofs . A perspective grid between the pillars with entablature bears the year 1830 and the monogram NZ in an archivolt held by lions . The side facade with a biaxial central risalit has a simple plaster structure with pilaster strips , the rear has a basket arch portal without pilasters and a dormer window.

The ground floor is divided by a groin vaulted corridor. Approximately in the middle of this corridor is the staircase, which is opened in a double arcade above a hanging bracket. The stair parapet is carved and has oval openings. The rooms are sparingly stuccoed in a classical style. The cross-ribbed rooms on the ground floor have fascia ribs and rosettes, the rooms on the upper floors have simple stucco frame fields with covings.

During the extensive renovation in 2018/19, the color of the exterior facade was returned to the original version from 1802 in shades of yellow. This version only lasted a few years and was then replaced by gray and white painting.

Outdoor area

Next to the house there is an artistic, also listed garden gate, which leads with the perspective grid from 1830 into the Kempten city park and serves as the main entrance during the Allgäu festival week . The forged gate is decorated by two golden lions above. Behind this garden gate is a small garden with a large water basin, which is decorated with a Roman image made of mosaic . There are also smaller fountains in a row .

Museum use

Roman Museum and Natural History Museum

Fluorescent minerals in a UV booth

From 1961 the Roman Museum was located on the ground floor, explaining the settlement of the area in Roman times. In addition, exhibits from excavations from the time of the Celts and Alemanni, including grave goods from local burial grounds in the early Middle Ages , were on display. The so-called Wiggensbach treasure trove, a depot of coins and jewelry, was an important part of the collection. It was probably buried during the Alemanni invasion in 233 AD.

The natural history museum, which was opened on the upper floor in 1975, was based on the donated collection of the geologist Karl August Reiser . The Reiser collection showed fossils, rock samples and minerals. These exhibits were continuously updated.

Due to the city's austerity measures, the house had been largely closed since 2003 and was kept accessible for a few hours a week by the Kempten Heimatverein in the spring, summer and autumn months. At the beginning of May 2015, the house was completely closed for renovation work and both museums were closed.

Kempten Museum

The completion of the renovation was planned for December 2018, but was postponed several times, first to October 2019, then to the first weekend in December 2019. The new city museum is called the Kempten Museum and has been completely redesigned. It is structured thematically, not chronologically. Only a small part of the exhibits were shown in the Allgäu Museum until the end of November 2018 .

The aim of the new concept is to “convey the extensive cultural heritage of the city of Kempten (Allgäu) in a lively way and to create an open, communicative and barrier-free cultural hub. [...] The listed Zumsteinhaus on the lively Residenzplatz will reflect the city's history from the first Roman settlement up to the present day and make it an active experience. "

The development of the museum is supported by the participatory project series “City Expedition Kempten”, which includes the population of Kempten in the museum design.


View of the entrance area of ​​the new Kempten Museum in the Zumsteinhaus.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zumsteinhaus at neukamm.de
  2. ↑ City expedition: table of ideas and first round of talks on the new Kempten Museum in the Zumsteinhaus. Kempten.de, November 24, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Christine Tröger: Kornhaus should have had its day as a museum from 2019. In: Kreisbote. October 16, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Zumsteinhaus
  5. ↑ Christine Tröger: Kornhaus should have had its day as a museum from 2019. In: Kreisbote. October 16, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ City expedition: table of ideas and first round of talks on the new Kempten Museum in the Zumsteinhaus. Kempten.de, November 24, 2017, accessed February 7, 2017 .
  7. ^ City expedition Kempten. Stadtexpedition Kempten.de, accessed on February 7, 2017 .

literature

  • Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 43f.
  • Herbert Scholz: Guide through the geological collection in the Zumsteinhaus . Dannheimer, Kempten 1983, ISBN 3-88881-004-3 .
  • Herbert Scholz, Ulrich Harsch: The mineral room in the Zumsteinhaus Kempten . Kulturamt, Kempten 1988, OCLC 159807351 .

Web links

Commons : Zumsteinhaus  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 39 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 42.6 ″  E