Bavaria has expanded its list of monuments to include several historical buildings – and two of them are in Franconia.

Bavaria’s list of monuments is growing with remarkable buildings from different eras. These cultural treasures tell fascinating stories from the past. Two buildings in Franconia are now listed as historical monuments.

As the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, communicated Significant additions were also made to the list of listed monuments in 2024.

Football stadium in Hof and Frammersbacher Mustard Mill: New Franconian monuments on Bavaria’s list

“The monuments in Bavaria reflect the diversity of our cultural state. They tell stories from everyday village life to important world events. Preserving these cultural riches for future generations is the task of our time,” explained General Conservator Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Architect Mathias Pfeil, head of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. There are currently more than 109,000 architectural and art monuments listed in the Bavarian Monuments List. The newly protected buildings also include two places in Franconia: the Grüne Au sports facility in Hof, Upper Franconia, and the mustard mill in Frammersbach, Lower Franconia.

The football stadium “Green Au” in Hof an der Saale According to the monument preservation office, it was built in 1913. After the Second World War, football was revived there in order to build on previous sporting successes. Between 1948 and 1949, the 70-meter-long standing and seating grandstand was built, which was added to the list of monuments in 2024. This is a wooden structure that rises above a concrete foundation and is spanned by a pent roof. The intact seating stands are the oldest structure in the stadium and “an important testimony to the reconstruction of Hof,” according to the state office.

Historical craftsmanship embodies that Mustard mill in Frammersbacha market in the Lower Franconian district of Main-Spessart not far from the border with Hesse. Where the mill is today, there was a copper hammer in the late Middle Ages, which was replaced by an iron hammer in 1686. But during the period of early industrialization, metal processing in Frammersdorf became unprofitable. In 1898, the then owner founded a factory to produce table mustard in the unused mill. The success was huge and the mill became the most important mustard factory in the Kingdom of Bavaria. The main building of the mill dates back to 1686.

“Building of superlatives”

The Augsburg hotel tower is another notable monument. According to the BLfD, the “Augsburger Maiskolben” in Wittelsbacher Park is a “superlative building”. The 115 meter high reinforced concrete building has lost none of its appeal even 50 years after its opening. Now the landmark of the city of Augsburg is a monument. Even when it was built, it was the tallest tower hotel in Europe, the tallest residential building in Germany and until…
Year 2000 Bavaria’s tallest skyscraper. Today it is still the tallest building in the Augsburg area. With its inclusion in the Bavarian list of monuments in December 2024, it can call itself the “highest inhabited architectural monument in the Free State”. The architects Reinhard Brockel and Erich R. Müller planned the building, which was completed in 1972. You can stay overnight in the Augsburg hotel tower book at Booking.com, among others*.

In Landshut became the northern cemeterya largely unchanged cemetery complex from the 1960s, was added to the list. The planners used the new funeral hall with cemetery administration at the Munich Forest Cemetery as a model. “The entire complex shows its simplicity and dignity, rigorously designed down to the last detail,” is how the monument office praises the building.

In addition, that was Otfried Preußler High School in Pullach protected as an example of brutalist architecture. According to the state office, the school building in the Munich district is considered an architecturally valuable representative of brutalism
(from the French “béton brut”, exposed concrete). It was planned and built between 1970 and 1973 according to plans by the now deceased architects Werner Fauser and Herbert Kriegisch. The Munich artist Manfred Mayerle was responsible for the design, including room-forming elements, wall and ceiling surfaces as well as sculptures.

Directory of all known architectural and archaeological monuments

The Bavarian Monument List is an informative directory of all known architectural and archaeological monuments. The monument status of an object – and thus the legal protection – is defined in Article 1 of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act (BayDSchG).

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It says: Monuments are man-made things or parts of them from the past, the preservation of which is in the interest of the general public because of their historical, artistic, urban planning, scientific or folkloristic significance.

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