Stahl’sches Schwesternhaus - Eisgrube 14 - Bamberg, BY-DE - Pre-Victorian Historic Homes on Waymarking.com

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Former canon court of St. Stephan, now Stahl’sches sister house, stately three-storey eaves side building with saddle roof, plastered solid building with profiled sandstone walls, high first floor, rich main portal by Johann Bernhard Kamm 1782, side gate passage, southern part in the core stone house 13th / 14th. Century, extensive renovation and expansion in 1744 and by Otto Schumm 1781–1783

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Earliest Recorded Date of Construction: 01/01/1744 Architectural Period/Style: Rokokko Type of Building e.g. Country House, Stately Home, Manor: canon court Interesting Historical Facts or Connections: The entrance door to Haus Eisgrube 14 has a well published doorknob: The doorknob is so well-known because the poet and theater director E. T. A. Hoffmann describes it in his story The golden pot, written in Dresden in 1813. E. T. A. Hoffmann often visited his friend (and later publisher) Carl Friedrich Kunz (1785–1849) in this house. In the story, the student Anselmus knocks over an old apple trader's basket. He runs away and only stops at the end of an avenue under an elderberry bush. By chance he met the registrar Heerbrand, who found him a job with the secret archivist Lindhorst. When he wants to start his first day of work there, the old apple woman appears in the door knocker and he faints from shock: “There he stood now and looked at the big beautiful bronze door knocker; but when he was about to grab the door knocker at the last stroke of the tower clock at the Kreuzkirche, which shook the air with a mighty sound, his metal face twisted into a grinning smile in the disgusting play of blue glowing rays of light. Oh! it was the apple woman from the Black Gate! " Listed Building Status (if applicable): yes - D-4-61-000-128 Main Material of Construction: brick Private/Public Access: private Rating: Additional Dates of Construction: Not listed Architect (if known): Not listed Landscape Designer (if known): Not listed Admission Fee (if applicable): Not Listed Opening Hours (if applicable): Not listed Related Website: Not listed

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