Mayor's House (Velbert)
The mayor's house in Velbert-Mitte is a villa built around 1810 in the northern part of Velbert. It got its name from the fact that it served as the official residence of Velbert Mayor Leopold Tweer from 1926 to 1945 .
The building known today as the mayor's house was built around 1810, but the exact year is unknown. In the first few years the mayor's house was still called Haus Unter den Linden . The building was given this name because of the numerous linden trees that surrounded the house, one of which has survived to this day. The merchant Kölver, at the time one of the richest merchants in the city, had the building built as a representative residence. After a short time it was popularly known as the Kölversches Haus . The half-timbered building did not get its classical facade until around 1825 .
But from around 1830 the building was owned by the Franco-Belgian mining company "La Marge", which later became part of Phoenix Rheinrohr AG . Around 1850, the foundry entrepreneur Binsfeld from Remscheid bought the house before the von Bruck family from Velbert bought the building in the 1860s. In the following years the house was named after the Brucksches Haus . After the First World War, the house came into the possession of the city of Velbert. From 1926 to 1945, the then mayor Leopold Tweer lived on the first floor of the house, while a local museum was housed on the ground floor from 1929. The name mayor's house , which is still used today , is derived from the fact that Tweer had lived there. After the end of the Second World War, the house was used as a residential building. In 1978 it was extensively renovated.
The local history museum on the ground floor of the mayor's house became an industrial museum within a few years, which developed around the Wönnemannsche Schmiede. Since it later concentrated on the locks and fittings manufactured in Velbert, after the museum had to move to the basement of the town hall in 1936 due to lack of space, it was renamed the " German Castle and Fittings Museum ". Today the museum is located in the Forum Niederberg .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 32.1 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 20.8 ″ E