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The house at 35 rue de la Laine, located in Wissembourg (Bas-Rhin), is a rectangular, slightly sewn building built in sandstone with chains and wooden gables. Its semi-croup roof and Renaissance elements, like a door in the middle of a hanger decorated with ironwork motifs, testify to a hybrid architecture. Some of the materials, including corner stones and a decorated interior door, would come from an earlier building, suggesting reconstruction or reuse in the 19th century.

The current building corresponds to the Napoleonic cadastral plan of 1831, when Louis Noumerque was the first registered owner. The commons and barn, partly made of wood, could date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Between 1837 and 1890, the house belonged to François Marie Antoine de Pugnière, lawyer and mayor of Wissembourg, before being acquired in 1891 by Charles Auguste Mangold, German general. Only the front door to the courtyard has been protected since the inscription of historic monuments in 1935.

The interior preserves remarkable elements: a 19th-century wooden staircase, an antique sandstone screw staircase, a high cellar accessible by a carved Renaissance door, and a kitchen equipped with a bread oven and a brick stove. The courtyard, closed by a pillared wall surmounted by spheres, includes an appentis hangar and an old barn-stable in sandstone and woodpan, reflecting the functional evolution of the place.

The building thus illustrates the architectural and social transformations of Wissembourg, between medieval heritage, adaptations of the 19th century and traces of successive owners, including local figures such as the attorney-mayor of Pugnière. Its partial registration (portal only) highlights the heritage value of its oldest elements, despite subsequent changes.

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