Old tannery (Hellenthal)

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Southeast side (June 2017)
West side (June 2017)
South side (June 2017)
East side, start of dismantling in February 2019
South side, February 2019
West side, February 2019

The Old Tannery , even Haus Kremer or tannery Matheis called in Hellenthal , Hardtstraße 2 was under monument protection standing monument . The building, built in 1817 , was “one of the last tanner workshops to be built before industrialization” from the point of view of the responsible upper monument authority , and at the same time “the only preserved tannery in the Rhineland from the 19th century”. The demolition of the building, which had been uninhabited since the 1970s, was up for grabs for several years until its actual implementation in spring 2019.

history

By means of a dendrochronological investigation, the half-timbered house, originally assessed as a quarry stone house, could be dated to the year 1817. The property was used as a tannery under the name of the Matheis family until the 1880s. Then, with structural changes (in particular by adding partition walls and ceilings) it was converted into a residential building and, according to the fire and society cadastre of the municipality of Hellenthal, inhabited by a Thönnes family from 1885 at the latest.

In his 1891 Chronicle of Schleidener Oberthal, the Royal Prussian Post Administrator Eugen Virmond mentions three members of the Hellenthal Matheis family with the profession of tanner: the brothers Friedrich and Wilhelm, the latter died in 1886 and the wealthy Peter Wilhelm Matheis (died 1896).

The property, owned by the municipality of Hellenthal since the death of the last residents, the Kremers (or Krämer) in the 1970s, was to be abandoned in 1998 after the demolition permit was issued on January 22, 1998. Instead, however, on August 20, 1998 (No. 05366020-BA217) the house Krämer was entered in the list of monuments of the municipality of Hellenthal. According to the municipal administration, the building was already in an uninhabitable state at this point in time.

In 2013 the Vlatten architect Johannes Prickartz was commissioned by the upper monument authority to provide construction documentation. This provided new insights into the origin of the structure, its earlier use, its type of construction (half-timbered instead of quarry stone) and the state of construction. It should become the basis for raising funds for future use.

Original ideas to set up a museum on the history of the tannery in the building were not pursued because of the unclear financing. A relocation to the LVR open-air museum in Kommern was not possible due to the fact that it was still under protection at the time, as this provides for preservation at the original place of construction.

For its part, the municipality preferred the establishment of an Aldi supermarket in the area of ​​the tannery and, for this purpose, initiated a procedure to change the land use and development plan . To prove the unreasonableness of the preservation or renovation, the municipality commissioned an expert on March 21, 2017 with the preparation of a profitability analysis according to the Monument Protection Act. This comes to the conclusion that the former tannery is to be assessed as "economically vulnerable".

Monika Herzog, area officer in the department for building and art monument maintenance at the responsible state curator , saw the former tannery as "a highly significant and unique historical testimony and therefore a valuable asset that cannot be reproduced."

Ultimately, after the municipal council's decision to cancel, the administrative offices involved, the local community, the district administration in Euskirchen , the monument authority, the district president in Cologne and the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry for Homeland, Local Affairs, Building and Equality, after lengthy negotiations up to December 2018 Agreement was reached that, according to Mayor Rudolf Westerburg, "issues relating to the protection of historical monuments have been put on hold against securing local supplies". The previously listed property was subsequently removed from the list of monuments and professionally dismantled in March and April 2019. The latter with the aim of rebuilding it in the LVR open-air museum in Lindlar at a time that has not yet been determined. After the groundbreaking ceremony took place in early May 2019, the new Aldi branch , which was built on the site of the former tannery , opened on November 14, 2019.

description

The two-storey building with four to two axes , with a full basement, was closed at the top with a clay pan-hipped roof . There was a well-preserved half-timbered construction under the cladding Eternit panels. The original work yard, paved with pebbles, was covered with earth in later years. Despite the structural changes since the end of its use as a tannery, the house still clearly showed that the stream, which is important for the work and carrying the necessary water, had been passed through the building. The Kohlsiefen, a left tributary of the Olef , was led underground in its last section of around 400 meters.

See also

Web links

Commons : Hellenthal, Hardtstr. 2  - collection of images

literature

  • Monika Herzog: The old tannery in Hellenthal. To the uncertain future of a unique architectural monument. (= Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 41, No. 3) Klartext Verlag, Essen 2017, ISSN  0177-2619 , pp. 116–122.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hellenthal: Hidden building history saves "House Kremer" on denkmalpflege.lvr.de, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Monument curator Monika Herzog in: Stephan Everling: Monument in Hellenthal. Tannery could become a museum , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 5, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Kehren: Demolition threatens. Are the days of the Hellenthal tannery numbered? , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from April 28, 2017, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Bernd Kehren: Tannery. Dilapidated but not dilapidated , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from January 6, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ Eugen Virmond: Chronik des Schleidener Oberthales edited by Christel Hamacher, ed. Archive of the district of Euskirchen (= sources on the regional history of the district of Euskirchen, Volume 1), Euskirchen 1996, p. 6 (Virmond), 62 (Friedrich and Wilhelm Matheis), 64 (Peter Wilhelm Matheis).
  6. ↑ a b c Profitability calculation by the publicly appointed surveyor Frank Diefenbach, Blankenheim, from April 5, 2017 , accessed on May 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ Bernd Kehren: Hellenthaler "Haus Kremer" Hidden treasure under tar paper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from January 15, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b Stephan Everling: Monument in Hellenthal. Tannery could become a museum , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 5, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  9. ↑ Monika Herzog: The old tannery in Hellenthal. To the uncertain future of a unique architectural monument. (= Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 41, No. 3) Klartext Verlag, Essen 2017, ISSN  0177-2619 , p. 122.
  10. ↑ Bernd Kehren: Aldi instead of a monument? Council decides to demolish the former tannery , Kölnische Rundschau from July 11, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2019.
  11. ↑ Bernd Kehren: Historic building in Hellenthal: From for the old tannery , Kölnische Rundschau from December 8, 2018, accessed on December 29, 2019.
  12. ↑ Stephan Everling: Half-timbered house dismantled: “Haus Kremer” tannery moves from the Eifel to the Bergisches Land , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from April 16, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019.
  13. ↑ Hanna Bender: Opening at the end of the year: construction work for Aldi Süd in Hellenthal begins , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from May 4, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019.
  14. ↑ Bernd Zimmermann: Supermarket: Discounter Aldi is opening a market for the first time in the municipality of Hellenthal , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from November 13, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019.
  15. ↑ Stephan Everling: Hellenthaler demolition house treasure behind rotten facade , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from January 14, 2014, accessed on June 19, 2017.
  16. ↑ To tim-online.de, above the house at Im Kohlseiffen 5 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 34.7 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 9.5 ″  E