Iron House (Hattingen)

Iron house
	; South side of the house
Data
place	Hattingen / Ruhr
Client	Wilhelm Elling
Architectural style	Half-timbered house
Construction year	1611
Coordinates	51 ° 23 '51.8 " N , 7 ° 11' 1.2" E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '51.8 " N , 7 ° 11' 1.2" E

Door beam with motto from 1611

The iron house is a half-timbered house in the old town of Hattingen in the southern Ruhr area. The house, built in 1611, now houses the museum of the Heimatverein Hattingen / Ruhr e. V. The name comes from its striking shape ( iron building ), which in turn is due to the location where two streets meet.

history

The building has a trapezoidal floor plan and follows the course of two alleys on the southern side to a point. On the wide side of the house (north side) it meets the house "Haldenplatz 3". The width of the house is 8.00 m at this point, while it tapers conically to the south side to 2.57 m. The wider upper floor is of cleats supported, up to 0.80 m on the two eaves sides protrude . The beams are partially decorated with mask carvings and volutes . The single-storey stable built in 1865 on the south side is missing today.

The building was erected in 1611 by Wilhelm Elling, a citizen of Hattingen. He was probably a merchant. In 1620 an extension was added to the gable side. The well from this time is six meters deep. The building has a basement. The door bar still carries the motto :

FIXED ME HERE FVR FEWR VND FIRE

I AM WILHEL ELLINGS HAVSZ -

ALL WHO KNOW ME GOD GIVEN

WHAT YOU GIVE ME ANNO 1611

From 1771 to 1856, cloth makers lived here who used their handlooms to produce cloth for women’s and men’s clothing as well as for uniforms. The last cloth maker in this house was Franz Sindern.

In 1853 the Jewish butcher Salomon Schmidt bought the house and had it converted. He set up a slaughter room, sausage kitchen and small shop in the house. A shop window in the classical style was built in next to the front door, the other windows were enlarged, the gable side was slated, a staircase was built in and a small horse stable was added to the gable side (no longer available).

In 1874, the Schmidt couple transferred the entire property including the building to their daughter Amalie and her husband, the butcher Nathan Cahn. Their descendants, Selma and Alfred Abraham, were expropriated, deported and murdered by the National Socialists in 1941. They were the last Jewish owners of the house. The house was returned in 1945 to the Jewish Trust Corporation (JTC) as the legal successor. This later sold it to the city of Hattingen.

Todays use

The Heimatverein Hattingen / Ruhr e. V. acquired the house in 1955 on the initiative of Heinrich Eversberg , Fritz Seier and Wolfgang Rauh and renovated it in collaboration with the then state curator of Westphalia-Lippe until 1962, whereby the assumed original appearance was partially restored. In 1962 the renovated building was opened as the "Heimathaus" with an East German home parlor.

The museum, which was mostly only open on Sundays until 2011, has so far shown finds from the Isenburg , such as coins, ceramics, but also old tools and bones. The rooms on the upper floor dealt with the Hattingen poets and artists Hildegard Schieb, Otto Wohlgemuth and Ferdinand Krüger until 2011 . Since 2012, the museum has been open between April and December on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment.

The neighboring Hattingen City Museum, once located in the Old Town Hall , is now in Blankenstein .

Exhibitions

April 21 to December 9, 2018

"His coat of arms is broken, his castle is filled with rubble - the excavation finds from Hattingen Castle Isenberg"
"Merchant, weaver, butcher, artist - stories from Haldenplatz No. 1"
"MADE in HATTINGEN - goods from home"
"The East German Heimatstuben Hattingen 1962 to 2002"

Resident history

history
year	Residents	job	comment
1611– approx. 1639	Wilhelm Elling, wife Gertrud b. Netman and four children (Gertrudis, Anna, Margaretha, Johann-Arnold)	unknown	Builder of the house. Marriage (⚭) January 26, 1622
1766- 1808	Johann-Dietrich Schulte with his wife and four daughters	gardener	* November 2, 1744 in Herdecke , took over the house from his father; † January 8, 1808
1808	Christoph Niermann with his wife Maria-Elisabeth (née Schulte) with five children	Draper	Maria inherited the house from her father, ⚭ March 27, 1810
1826	unknown	unknown	Niermann was still the owner of the house, but lived at the "Bruch" house, Welper
1833	Friedrich-Wilhelm Höfken	Cloth manufacturer	bought the house on October 4, 1833
1836	Jonas Höfken Sr.	unknown	inherited the house from his father
1838	Wilhelmine Hochstrate	unknown	bought the house for 650 Reichstaler (Rthlr.)
1838	Franz Sintern (* 1787) with his wife and son	Cloth weaver	W. Hochstrate transferred the house on April 22, 1838.
1843	• Franz Sintern • Michel family (* 1796) with wife and son, • Heinrich Schmidt (* 1815) with wife and two children 00	• Cloth maker • Cloth maker • Blacksmith
1852	• Franz Sintern and family • Schilling • Somme • Gieselmann	• Draper	Occupations and number of family members unknown
1856	Salomon Schmidt and family	Butcher	bought the house on November 1, 1856; Conversions: slaughter room, sausage kitchen, shop, horse stable (extension on the southern gable side, no longer available)
1861	• Andreas Schmalz • August Feilke • Abraham Heinrichs	unknown	Occupations and number of family members unknown
1867	Salomon Schmidt	unknown	Profession and number of family members unknown
1874- 1907	• Nathan Sive • Norbert Cahn with his wife Amalie, b. Schmidt 00	Butcher	* December 25, 1874 in the house
1885	Family Cahn (3 males, 6 females)	Butcher	Data from the census house no.340
1891	• Nathan Cahn • Karl Kurtze • Sybille Schmidt	• Butcher • Butcher journeyman • Widow
1907	unknown	unknown	The butcher's shop is relocated to “Bruchstrasse” and from then on the house is only a residential building with various tenants.
1908	• Heinrich Claes • Adele Rund • Anna Rund • Karl Rund jun. • Karl Rund sen. • Florentine Schneider • Magdalena Schneider	• master tailor • factory worker • factory worker • drill • imperial invalid • cleaner • widow (Cahn?)
1929	• Wilhelmine Hesper • Wilhelm Kranz • Heinrich Schiff • Johann Stump • Alma Marklein	• widow • worker • worker • crane operator • cleaning lady	• (Bahn) • Furhmann at Schack
1933	The Glittenberg family with their daughter Margot	unknown	Margot (born July 8, 1933 in the house)
1934	• Otto Behlau • Wilhelm Geile • Wilhelm Kranz with children ( Johanna, August) • Emma Kurzawa • Dietrich Leimann • Anton Simon • Wilhelm Waldmann • Hermann Weber 00	• worker • unknown • unskilled worker • worker • stove man • unknown • foreman • locksmith
1937	Elisabeth Rölker	Retail salesman	Daughter of Johanna Kranz (June 23, 1937 in the house)
1938- 1941	• Anton and Änne Simon • Anni, Hilde and Kitty Koch with parents and sister (aunt?)	• unknown • unknown
1961- 1964	Otto Wohlgemuth	Miner, poet, city librarian and painter	* March 30, 1884; † August 18, 1965 in the house
1962- 1964	Marie Wittenbecher	unknown	* September 12, 1913; ⚭ with O. Wohlgemuth September 28, 1962.
1964	Marie Meschede	Newspaper delivery woman	* 1900

location

The museum in the iron house, Haldenplatz Nr. 1, 45525 Hattingen / Ruhr

gallery

South side
View into the alley to Haldenplatz
Stud details on the 1st floor
Entrance on Haldenplatz with house motto
Detail house motto

Web links

Commons : Iron House - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Heimatverein Hattingen / Ruhr e. V .: 400 years of the iron house - a reading book . 1st edition. Paashaas, Hattingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-942614-03-0 , pp. 87-89 .
^ Richard P .: Stumbling block Selma Abraham. Photo and accompanying text. February 4, 2008, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 .
↑ Thomas Weiß, city archivist: Stolperstein for Selma Abraham, geb. Cahn. (PDF; 721 kB) 2006, p. 5 , archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 .
↑ East German Heimatstuben . Museum in the iron house. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
↑ His coat of arms is broken . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . November 19, 2016 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).
↑ Stories from Haldenplatz No. 1 . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . December 13, 2016 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).
↑ Made in Hattingen - goods from home . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . May 22, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).
↑ East German Heimatstuben . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . December 28, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).

[400JahreBügeleisenhaus-1] Heimatverein Hattingen / Ruhr e. V .: 400 years of the iron house - a reading book . 1st edition. Paashaas, Hattingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-942614-03-0 , pp. 87-89 .

[StolpersteinCahn-2] Richard P .: Stumbling block Selma Abraham. Photo and accompanying text. February 4, 2008, archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 .

[3] Thomas Weiß, city archivist: Stolperstein for Selma Abraham, geb. Cahn. (PDF; 721 kB) 2006, p. 5 , archived from the original on April 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 .

[4] East German Heimatstuben . Museum in the iron house. Retrieved February 4, 2019.

[5] His coat of arms is broken . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . November 19, 2016 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).

[6] Stories from Haldenplatz No. 1 . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . December 13, 2016 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).

[7] Made in Hattingen - goods from home . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . May 22, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).

[8] East German Heimatstuben . In: The Museum in the Iron House | Haldenplatz No. 1 . December 28, 2017 ( wordpress.com [accessed February 2, 2018]).