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Building Number 22 in the printed brochure
"Historic Buildings in Münchberg".

The sign is on the right next to the entrance door.

In the middle of the 19th century the Fleißner family, whose textile business was located in Helmbrechtser Straße, had these representative city villa with hipped roof built. Here at the end of Ludwigstraße at one time the upper city gate formed the boundary of the city defenses.

These manufacturer villa, along with the town hall, the previous district court and other buildings, displayed the typical forms of the rural rounded arch style. This house style goes back to the reconstruction after the city fire of 1837 and consists of the uniform arrangement of two story “terrace houses” which, however, were partly raised and modernized in the meantime. King Ludwig I of Bavaria had the state’s capital city of Munich remodeled in the classical style by his chief architects Leo von Klenze and Friedrich von Gärtner. This building style was also adopted in Münchberg and so we find interesting architectural similarities in the Ludwigstraße of both cities respectively. So in the area around Klosterplatz at the former upper gate, as somewhat triangular floor plan with uniform house building sprung up.

From ownership of the Fleißner manufacturing family the house transferred ownership to the city and became in the meantime the city savings bank. In the front door grill the emblem of the bank with the initials SSM for Stadtsparkasse (City Savings Bank) of Münchberg and the symbolic mark over the bank are still represented (photo left). In the cellar the old walled vault still exists (photo right).

Later the library of the city construction office and the finance department were housed here.

Today the villa is private and is used commercially. On the ground floor there is a dental surgery.