The „singer’s court“
The house at Pfarrplatz No. 9 is a real eye-catcher with its stepped gable and the noticeable chimney.
Also noteworthy is the houses’s history as location of the town’s hospital from the year 1210 on. Here, the elderly citizens would spend the evening of their lifes, and also poor wayfarers could find a bed for the night. As those persons often needed assistance when being ill, somebody had to take care about them. So, those places evolved into today’s hospitals.
The house‘s name „Sängerhof“ means „singer’s court“ as the tenor singer of the church choir used to live on the premises. A popular legend tells us that the name derives from the legendary stay of Walther von der Vogelweide, the famous minnesinger, who allegedly spent a night here. According to another myth, he was here together with Oskar von Wolkenstein, another very well known minstrel. Unfortunatel, this is historically impossible as the two of them were no coevals.