Zur silbernen Schelle
Zur silbernen Schelle stands in Germany with a stage-like late Baroque façade, set slightly back yet immediately recognisable. Its decorative stonework faces the street, while the building’s appearance recalls an earlier world of travellers, horses and business.
Built as an inn in 1719, the property welcomed travellers and accommodated as many as seventy horses in its extensive stables. The Catterfeld family later handed it to new owners. Stone cellars, spacious rooms, kitchens, living quarters and outbuildings once gathered around a large courtyard. In 1873, banking replaced hospitality, and the Jewish Goldschmidt family shaped the premises until they were forced to flee in 1939. Other banks followed, then the city archive and various businesses used the rooms.
The façade kept its Baroque character while the interiors moved from stable work to banking and archive duties. Look closely at the stonework and imagine horse hooves, travellers and bankers sharing the same courtyard.
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