Dürkheimer Haus, Cultural heritage building in Bad Dürkheim, Germany.
Dürkheimer Haus is a cultural heritage building with two wings located outside the former fortified city center of Bad Dürkheim. Following major renovations in 2006, it now houses a cafe-bar, dance hall, and parking facility.
Originally named 'Zum Schaaf', the building served as a guesthouse for over 200 years under various owners, beginning with Johann Conrad Schaaf until 1755. Its long role as an inn ended when it was transformed into a public venue.
The inn was renamed "Zu den vier Jahreszeiten" after Johann Balthasar Bergner rebuilt it in 1835-36; his wife Anna, known as the "Schöne Anna", drew a cosmopolitan clientele, and an 1843 newspaper claimed she made the spa town a meeting place of the educated world. On 6 October 1840 the Pollichia natural history society was founded here.
The building stands at Kaiserslauterer Straße 1, on the south side of the street just before the site of the demolished Hardenburger Tor, where the Gaustraße joins from the east. The rear wing was converted into a public car park, so drivers can park in the building itself.
The inn's hall, built in 1847-48 and demolished around 1886, seated 500 people. The building's later name comes from the Vier Jahreszeiten winery cooperative, which bought the property in 1902 for 75,000 marks and opened a garden restaurant on 22 May 1903.
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