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Comment: More of this draft needs to be referenced. A conspicuous example is where the draft tells us: Exhibitions held in the Fischerbau since its reopening have included
-- and then a list of nine, only one of which is referenced. Hoary (talk)WWU 👍︎ 07:56, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
| Fischerbau | |
|---|---|
General information | |
| Type | Former ice cellar / brewery cellar; exhibition space |
| Location | Weilheimer Straße 12–14, Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, Bavaria, Germany |
Construction started | 1745 |
| Completed | 1746 |
| Renovated | 2001–2003 |
| Owner | Private |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | c. 500 m² |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Johann Michael Fischer |
The Fischerbau is a historic building in Polling, Weilheim-Schongau, a village in the Weilheim-Schongau district of Bavaria, Germany. It was built in 1745–46 by the architect Johann Michael Fischer as an ice cellar (Eiskeller) and beer cellar (Bierkühlhaus) for the brewery of Polling's former Augustinian canons monastery, Kloster Polling. After restoration between 2001 and 2003, it reopened as a venue for art exhibitions, literature and music events, and is considered one of the few surviving secular (non-religious) buildings that can be securely attributed to Fischer.
History
[edit]On 10 June 1745, Franziskus Töpsl (1711–1796), provost of Kloster Polling from 1744 and a co-founder, with Eusebius Amort, of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, noted in his diary that the monastery lacked a suitable cellar for storing beer and that he had resolved to build a new one from scratch.[1] He commissioned Johann Michael Fischer (1692–1766), already renowned as a monastery and church architect, to design the building; it was in use by Christmas 1746.[1] Fischer's epitaph in the Frauenkirche in Munich credits him with 32 churches, 23 monasteries and numerous palaces, but the Fischerbau is one of the few surviving non-religious (secular) buildings for which his authorship is documented.
Under brewing regulations then in force, including the 1516 Reinheitsgebot, bottom-fermented beer could only be brewed in the winter half of the year, making it necessary to keep beer cool through the summer. As artificial refrigeration did not yet exist, eight square vaulted cellar chambers were built on a footprint of about 33 by 19.6 metres, using porous tuff quarried locally in Polling for insulation. Ventilation shafts through the 2.4-metre-thick outer walls allowed cold winter air into the cellars, supplemented by stored natural ice; the barrels stood on a paving of river boulders that both stabilised the floor and let meltwater drain away. An underground passage connected the cellar to the brewery's brewhouse across the street.[1] The building above the cellars, with its freestanding roof truss over roughly 500 m², sheltered the cellars from summer heat and served as storage for grain and brewing equipment.[1]
Following the secularisation of the monastery, Johann Evangelist Streicher acquired the brewery, its brewing rights and the Fischerbau from the dissolved monastery's estate three years later. The building has remained in private ownership since.
Restoration work began in 2001 with the aim of preserving as much of the historic fabric as possible. The restored building reopened to the public on 22 June 2003 with the exhibition Cas[ul]a antiqua – Cas[ul]a nova, juxtaposing historic and contemporary chasubles (liturgical vestments). Since then, the Fischerbau has been used for temporary and long-term art exhibitions as well as literary and musical events.
Exhibitions
[edit]Exhibitions held in the Fischerbau since its reopening have included:
- 2003 – Cas[ul]a antiqua – Cas[ul]a nova, a comparison of historic chasubles (including the "Pollinger Ornat", dating from around 1730 and held by the Bavarian residence museum in Munich) with new vestments created by contemporary artists including Arnulf Rainer, Markus Lüpertz, Clemens Kaletsch, Jess Walter and Bernd Zimmer.
- 2004 – Paintings by the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
- 2005 – ZeitSchnitt, a monumental linocut by Bernd Zimmer addressing the history of Polling.
- 2006 – Sculpture by Andreas Kuhnlein on the subject of Emperor Henry II.
- 2007 – Raum Kunst Liturgie (liturgical spaces) and Growing Up, works by Clemens Kaletsch.
- 2009 – Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) by Bernd Zimmer.
- 2012 – KULT RAUM.
- 2015 – Works by Joa Baldinger.
- 2016–present – untitled 1970, a large-scale installation of blue and red fluorescent light by the American artist Dan Flavin (1933–1996), on long-term loan from the Estate of Dan Flavin (Artist Rights Society of New York). First installed in the Fischerbau in 2016, the work was removed in 2019, shown in Paris, and returned to Polling from 2022. At around 24 elements and some 30 metres in length, it is among the largest realisations of this work.[2]
The owners had first approached Dan Flavin about showing a work in the building in the mid-1990s, through the collector Heiner Friedrich; plans and photographs of the Fischerbau were sent to New York, but the artist died in 1996 before the project could be realised.[3][4] Contact continued over the following two decades with Flavin's long-time assistant Steve Morse, conservator of the Dan Flavin Studio and administrator of the artist's estate, and with Heiner Friedrich, who holds one of the world's largest Flavin collections. The project came together after untitled 1970 was shown at Herrenchiemsee.[4][5] The exhibition opened on 6 May 2016, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of Fischer's death, and ran on view each Saturday and Sunday until 2 October that year;[3][5] a further reopening address was given on 6 May 2017 by Bernhart Schwenk, senior curator of contemporary art at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.[2]
The installation and the building have drawn coverage in the regional press. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the pairing of Fischer's architecture and Flavin's light as a "perfect symbiosis", noting how the coloured light shifts the perceived tone of the roof timbers from pink to violet depending on the viewer's position and the time of day.[3] The Münchner Merkur and the Abendzeitung (Munich) each carried features on the installation and the Jarnach's decades-long effort to bring it to Polling.[5][4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Engels, Gerd (23 June 2024). "Fischerbau in Polling". Reise Idee. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ^ a b "Fischerbau in Polling". FischerBauKunst. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ^ a b c "Dan Flavin-Ausstellung: Perfekte Symbiose". Süddeutsche Zeitung. 8 May 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ^ a b c Prechtel, Adrian (18 August 2024). "Kulturausflug nach Polling: Von Dan Flavin zur Kunstwandelhalle Stoa169". Abendzeitung. Munich. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
- ^ a b c "Fischerbau Polling: Traum geht in Erfüllung – Lichtkunst Flavin". Münchner Merkur. May 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2026.
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