Klösterle

Klösterle is a half-timbered house in Bad Cannstatt, within the city of Stuttgart, Germany. Its main surviving structure dates from around 1465 in the Stuttgart area. The building is regarded as the oldest surviving residential building in the Stuttgart area. Its Gothic chapel occupies the first floor. Dendrochronological evidence links the construction timber to trees felled in 1463, shortly before the house was completed. An oriel joined the house in 1476. The upper-floor chapel received a Renaissance stucco ceiling in 1576. An adjacent barn followed around 1580 as an economic building. Historical records document bourgeois owners, while the name Klösterle leaves open a possible connection with Beguines. No direct evidence confirms a Beguine convent. The building survived demolition plans from the 1930s through civic resistance in the 1970s. Hermann Kugler bought and restored the house in 1983, receiving an architecture award in 1984. Since 1985, the ground floor has housed Weinstube Klösterle, while the upper floor contains Kugler’s architectural office. The barn has housed Stadtmuseum Cannstatt since 1988.