Eh'häusl

The Eh'häusl is a two and a half meters wide hotel in the old town of Amberg (Bavaria). According to the operator, the Urban Planning Society of the city of Amberg, it is now regarded as " the smallest hotel in the world ".

The name of the building derived possibly from Frühneuhochdeutsch tice ( for, servants ', ' servant ') and was probably in the 18th or 19th century in the vernacular to marriage house '/, Marriage House' reinterpreted.

The house was built on an approximately 20 -square-meter floor area and suspended without sides between two neighboring houses.

History

One of the central concerns of the Bavarian legislation from the 14th to the late 18th century was the effort to curb the rise in the birth especially in less financially well-off people. Marriages of servants or day laborers were difficult for this reason, or even banned. The City Council Amberg said to have demanded as a condition for church wedding " a debt-free house and land ." According to legend, a Amberger citizen should have built the Eh'häusl in 1728 to allow impotent couples marriage that should have it then resold each after the honeymoon to the next couple. In the 18th century, the house is said to have served exclusively newlywed couples for this purpose.

When in 1976 during construction work in the wake of urban renewal Amberger one of the two outbuildings were demolished, the building collapsed completely. It has been faithfully reconstructed in the sequence and has since operated as a hotel. In the first half of 2008, the Eh'häusl for around 200,000 euros was refurbished.

In 2009 premiered a musical about the emergence of the Eh'häusls within the 975 - year anniversary of the city of Amberg in Amberg Stadttheater of 150 students from the lower and upper choir of the Max -Reger -Gymnasium.