Old milk farm (Heilbronn)
The Alte Milchhof is a historic building at Frankfurter Strasse 75 in Heilbronn , which was built in 1925 in the immediate vicinity of the Heilbronn slaughterhouse as a municipal milk collection point . It is one of the few buildings in the Heilbronn station suburb that was not destroyed by the air raids on Heilbronn during World War II. The building was used from 1983 to 2004 as an exhibition building for the Heilbronn City Museum with exhibitions on shipping on the Neckar River and viticulture. Today the building still houses the Heilbronn City Lapidarium .
description
The house, which was built by the city's building construction department under city building officer G. Scherer, is divided into a longitudinal wing for the operating rooms and a two-and-a-half-story transverse building with offices. On the side of the house facing Schlachthofstrasse was the milk receiving room and the jug washroom. On the west side of the house were the delivery room and the room for the bottle washing machine and the bottle filling machine. The laboratory, office, supervisory room and the sales room with milk-drinking hall were in front of the rooms on the ground floor. A milk storage room with six milk containers of 4,000 liters each was on the first floor. The manager's apartment and the meeting room were also located there.
The architectural decorations include bay windows and gable structures, but also various figurative decorations. Above the entrance there is a stone relief of the imperial city eagle, on the floor above the symbol of a caring mother who is flanked by flute-playing putti. Console stones between the windows show faces and animal heads, console stones on the corners of the building facing Frankfurter Straße name the year of construction 1925 in cartridges, on the sides of which children are depicted with milk bottles. On the northeast corner of the building there is also a portrait head of the Heilbronn city architect Georg Scherer, who was in office at the time the building was built.
history
On July 1, 1924, the city of Heilbronn and the milk trade founded Milchversorgung Heilbronn GmbH . As a replacement for the municipal milk center set up in 1922 at Wilhelmstrasse 9a, the company built a new dairy farm in 1925 at the municipal slaughterhouse in Frankfurter Strasse, which went into operation on February 21, 1926.
The new dairy farm was "unreservedly recognized" by the domestic and foreign commissions, who counted the dairy farm among the "most modern facilities of its kind in Germany". The milk catchment area of the Heilbronner Milchhof included the Oberämter Heilbronn , Besigheim , Brackenheim , Hall , Marbach , Öhringen and Neckarsulm . Suppliers were 16 individual milk suppliers, 5 collective dairies and 52 local collection points. The city's children's milk kitchen was also located in the building , which contributed to the decline in infant mortality in Heilbronn from 11.2% to 4.4%.
In 1968 the milk supply opened a new production facility in Neckarau near Neckargartach . Company apartments remained in the building on Frankfurter Strasse , the remaining rooms and the site were rented out.
1980, then held reorientation was under Civic Museums Heilbronn by Willi Zimmermann created the space program for a decades angedachtes Neckar Maritime Museum, and defines a space of about 2,000 square meters. In 1983 the museum moved into rooms in the old milk farm. In 1990 there was also a permanent exhibition on Heilbronn viticulture . In 1992 Joachim Hennze became director of the museum, which existed until 2004. The objects in the museum were then incorporated into the collections or some of them were also placed in public spaces. A small display collection on viticulture is now located below the summit of the Heilbronn Wartberg , while the municipal lapidarium is still in the building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The modern architecture in Heilbronn . In: Germany's urban development: Heilbronn a. N. 2nd edition. DARI German architecture and industry publishing house , Berlin-Halensee 1928. p. 51
- ↑ Entry Scherer, Georg; City planning officer in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn city archive , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-7542
- ↑ a b Entry Milchversorgung GmbH Heilbronn in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-880
- ↑ a b Slaughterhouse director Dr. Feeser: The municipal dairy farm . In: Germany's urban development: Heilbronn a. N. 2nd edition. DARI German architecture and industry publishing house, Berlin-Halensee 1928. p. 69
- ↑ 125 years of museums in Heilbronn, in: museo 21/2004
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 26.6 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 19 ″ E