2023-04-28 07:00:00
A first-class monument itself, the Salem Minster has now become the scene of a thoroughly secular, but nonetheless culturally significant event: the ceremony for the award of the 2022 Monument Protection Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg. All the award winners, the award donors, a number of laudators, keynote speakers and experts filled the church to the last pew and attended a well-structured event, which, despite its two-and-a-half-hour duration in the inhospitable cold, was able to warm up for the ideas of monument protection in a very vivid way.
Because the building objects to be honored were presented to the public on a large screen placed in front of the main altar as part of an impressive picture review, while Gerhard Kabierske, as chairman of the jury made up of top-class experts, explained the respective special features. Previously, Nicole Razavi, who, as Minister for Regional Development and Housing, is also responsible for monument protection, had provided the conceptual framework in her speech. Razavi took on the concept of homeland, which is anchored in the names of the two prize-giving associations, and made it clear that the preservation of monuments does not fulfill itself in a merely backward-looking concept of homeland, but has to come to life in a contemporary-related identity foundation. Dean Peter Nicola, the clergyman in the Minster, had already pointed this out when he quoted the English statesman Thomas More in his greeting address, according to whom tradition is not about preserving the ashes, but about passing on the flame.
Difficult choice
How this flame of contemporary residential use licks in old walls worth preserving, some of which have already fallen into disrepair, is something that the monument protection award winners can testify to in an exemplary manner. In 2022, the jury had pre-selected eleven objects from 65 applications, from which the five most prize-worthy buildings were then determined during a tour of inspection through the entire federal state. Among them is the Bermatinger Jägerhaus in the Lake Constance district – the SÜDKURIER reported on the award several times last year. Here, the married couple Yvonne Eisele and Sven Nolle, with the support of architect Corinna Wagner and experienced craftsmen, have managed to carefully preserve a decorative wine bar building from the monastery period of the early 18th century in its original condition and at the same time to offer space for contemporary living needs. You could convince yourself of this before the ceremony.
The rustic wooden floorboards, the lavish door frames and subtle stucco ceilings harmonize perfectly with the tastefully selected interior and the elaborately modernized kitchen and sanitary facilities. The possible installation of a second apartment and the expansion of the roof had been avoided. “Are you still living or are you already alive?” – the new owners of the Jägerhof and their two children seem to have adopted this slogan of a Scandinavian furniture manufacturer, albeit in the most sophisticated way possible. At the ceremony it was up to Max Neidhart from the carpentry workshop to shed light on the manual and technical side of the extensive restoration work, in which the regional companies Ziegler for stucco and plaster, Dilpert for painting, Wiest for the natural stone work, Steinhauser for the heating and Stumpp for the sanitary facilities were successfully involved.
About prizes and prizewinners
The monument protection prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg, which is awarded every two years and is endowed with 5000 euros, is awarded by the state association Badische Heimat and the Schwäbischer Heimatbund. He receives significant financial support from the Wüstenrot Foundation. Patron is State Minister Nicole Razavi. The architects and craftsmen involved are awarded certificates. In order to win further initiatives alongside the state as a player in the preservation of monuments, the prize is primarily aimed at promoting private commitments. The five prize winners in 2022 are the Wildenhof in Lenzkirch-Raitenbuch (Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district), a half-timbered house in Maulbronn-Zaisersweiher (Enzkreis ), the former parsonage in Wangen-Oberwälden (Göppingen district), the former Eckartshausen-Ilshofen train station (Schwäbisch Hall district) and the Jägerhof in Bermatingen (Bodensee district).
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