Bummerlhaus

Bummerlhaus a Gothic mansion in Steyr ( square 32), the core of which probably dates from the 13th century.

The first documentary mention is made, however, only 1450th The building name itself is probably due to the sign of the former inn of the Golden Lion. The there ( somewhat awkwardly ) lion depicted mocked the Steyr citizens Bummerl ( Puppy ).

Historical Overview

The owners of the town house of historical significance are detectable since the 15th century. The last state of research dates the construction history to the 13th century. By 1450 Mert Pandorffer is listed as owner, who worked as a bailiff Kastner and the rule Steyr 1432-1450. He was succeeded by his son Wolfgang Pandorffer 1456 of 1473 the wealthy merchant Mr. Georg Prandtstetter sold it around 1000 florins. Valentin Preuenhueber mentioned in his History Annales Styrenses already arranged in the chapel. Georg Prandstetter probably altered the house in the way it is today preserved in its basic form. In 1490 Hanns Prandtstetter inherited the mansion. The attached to the facade year 1497 suggests that the design of the front house of Hans Prandtstetter was commissioned. Hanns Prandtstetter, who served as mayor of Steyr 1521, died 1521. The possession, his son, Hanns Prandtstetter. 1543 were given as the owner of " Prandtstetters heirs ". In the years 1567 and 1596 appears in the tax books Wolf Händl of Ramingdorf, longtime mayor of Steyr, as the owner on. 1651 Stefan Graf Haider bought the " dilapidated house." He was one of the wealthiest individuals in the city. He was a baker, restaurateur, owner of the salt chamber, a brewery and a Musketenrohrschmiede. 1687 sold the heirs of Count Haider possession of Daniel Edtinger, who owned the building until 1748. Goods up to the time of the Thirty Years' War influential council and merchants who traded mainly with iron and steel, but also with grain and Venetian goods, the owner of the house. From the second half of the 17th century remained the wine trade and the Leutgebschaft. By the year 1898, the house was home to a guest house (" Golden Lion " ), until 1964 an iron trade was in the house accommodated. 1964 acquired the Volkskreditbank the so-called Bummerlhaus -actuated and a massive reconstruction, in which a banking hall was built on the ground floor of the front building. In 1994, a deconstruction of the attic Ausbaues. Instead smaller archive rooms was a sprawling office unit in which the static and formal design principle of the truss is recognizable. In the spring of 2000, the show facade, which faces the town square gets a much needed stone restoration and a renovation of the gable wall.

Specifications

Bummerlhaus is the best preserved late Gothic mansion of Steyr and one of the most beautiful medieval secular buildings in Austria. The house shows the typical Steyr basic design, consisting of the front building with a richly decorated facade to the town square, the rear building and three courtyards with arcades. The usual for the Middle Ages roof shape, a steep roof with a hipped to the town square, dominated the architecture of the house. At its core lies a square tower, which reminds one of a medieval tower house and around the shapes, the other house. The façade facing the square shows a cantilevered on the first floor, carved from stone wide bay window that spans the entire length of the house. Decorate this blind arcades and a rich frieze with a quatrefoil tracery, which is among the five unbalanced ruled windows. About the narrow roof of the wide bay window rises the listed brick gable wall with brick arcades and a steep hipped, in which an elevator hatch is installed. Axial aligned, dominated in the gable wall bifores a late Gothic windows with elaborate stone pillars and arches.

Equipment

A showpiece of civil Gothic architecture is integrated in the House chapel. She is on the floor and receives about four narrow late Gothic window light. The altarpiece, Ascension of Christ, the painter Martin Johann Schmidt ( "Kremser Schmidt " ) graces the interior. Even with the five Dreipaßmotiven decorated and profiled door jambs is one of the rich amenities of the house. On the first floor of the front building refer richly structured wood ceiling on the wealth of the builder. On the southwest side of the third court a partially detached late Gothic spiral staircase connects the building with the increased arranged garden and allows the stairway to the mountain alley.

Recording

• On the occasion of the 500 anniversary appeared from 4 June 1973, a 50 shilling coin vagina.
• Veronika Handl Gruber wrote the ode to the Steyr Bummerlhaus. In the last stanza reads: Medieval and modern times wed in you harmoniously, / splendid seat wealthy merchants from long-vanished times. / Today, modern bank, now again put the commercial / clear and purposeful design, and yet remained the Gothic / precious gem captive treasure our old / far -praised, much-loved Eisenstadt Steyr.

Urban Classification

Most and most beautiful houses of the town of Steyr stand on the town square, in the corner, inside the church and Gleinkergasse. More modest, but also shaped by the Steyr type objects can be found at the Green Market, the Haratzmüllerstraße, parish, mountain, Badgasse and Sierningerstraße. Most houses of the old parts of the city ( downtown, Steyrdorf, Ennsdorf and place) come into the main walls and a good part in its overall outline from the late Gothic period. Changes can be found sporadically only on facades, which were mostly carried out at land consolidations. The outer contours and the layout of the interior remained largely intact.