Hermansbau
Hermansbau stands in Memmingen, Bavaria, as a Baroque city palace with four wings, a courtyard and a garden house. Completed in 1766, it presents the scale and formal design of an eighteenth-century merchant’s residence. Original furnishings and allegorical ceiling paintings bring patrician domestic life into view.
Benedict von Herman, a wealthy Swabian merchant who spent much of his time in Venice, commissioned the palace. King Ludwig I, Emperor Franz I and Tsar Alexander counted among its notable guests. The building houses the Heiss-Barockgalerie and the Heimatmuseum Freudenthal/Altvater, whose collections have been here since 1936. Exhibits trace Memmingen’s former Protestant imperial-city life through legal, church and guild history.
Johann Heiß, a Baroque painter born in Memmingen, receives particular attention inside. Faience from the Krönerberg manufactory and historical dollhouses add smaller, finely detailed views of the past. The von Wachter family still inhabits part of this privately owned palace.
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