Bahnhofstrasse 21 (Gunzenhausen)

House at Bahnhofstrasse 21 in Gunzenhausen

The building at Bahnhofstrasse 21 in Gunzenhausen , a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia ( Bavaria ), was constructed around 1860/70 by the carpenter and contractor Leonhard Schlennert. The residential and commercial building is a protected architectural monument .

The two-storey eaves gable roof building with a wide central gable was built from local sandstone blocks. The facade is decorated with neo-Gothic decorative elements.

history

In 1872 the house came into the possession of the Jewish trader Jakob Salomon Mohr. In 1906 it was bought by the Jewish cattle dealer Jacob Seller with his wife Elise, b. Schülein (born April 5, 1876 in Thalmässing ). In 1938, the Seller family sold the house under pressure from the National Socialist regime. Elise Seller died on January 13, 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp .

literature

Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Jewish life in Gunzenhausen (accessed on February 28, 2016)
Jacob Seller family (accessed February 28, 2016)

Individual evidence

^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved February 28, 2016.

49.11823 10.75419Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 5.6 " N , 10 ° 45 ′ 15.1" E

[1] Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved February 28, 2016.