circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020

circa 1600, installed in Lauenstein in 1902.

Provenance unknown – origin from the so-called Pfannenhof or Kutscherhof cannot be established. 

As part of the historicist alterations to the medieval and Renaissance Lauenstein Castle after its acquisition in 1896 by Dr. Erhard Messmer, the wooden components were brought there from an unidentifiable, but unmistakable, Nuremberg property. The first mention of the Pfannenhof comes from Tilmann Breuer's inventory of monuments: Landkreis Kronach (Bayerische Kunstdenkmale; 19), Munich 1964. There, on page 183, it states: "This wooden gallery originates from the Kutschershof or Pfannenhof in Nuremberg (Brunnengäßchen 14/16), built before 1571." This information about its origin can also be found in the official guide to Lauenstein Castle by Dr. Stierhof, 1st edition 1976. All documents and records in Nuremberg (State Archives), Munich (Administration of Bavarian Palaces and Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments), and Bamberg (State Building Authority and State Archives) do not, however, confirm the supposed origin. Sigfried Messmer, a descendant of the castle's owning family, also possesses no further information on this matter. Thus, the provenance remains a mystery: the analysis of the images and archival materials relating to the "Pfannenhof" contradicts the established attribution. 

The Lauenburg wooden galleries reflect the courtyard design common in Nuremberg around 1600 (see image comparisons below). A basic framework with "Renaissance columns" on volute-decorated pedestals, entablature, and pseudo-segmental arches is complemented by post-Gothic tracery balustrades. The latter are modeled on patterns created in the workshop of St. Lorenz Church in the 1460s.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, October 2020