Bauspar Museum

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Bauspar Museum
Wuestenrot House Haller Strasse 3 20100410.jpg
Bauspar Museum Wüstenrot
Data
place Desert red
Art
Building society museum
opening 1996
Number of visitors (annually) 1000 (2012)
management
Bausparkasse and Wüstenrot municipality
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-907411

The Bauspar Museum is a museum opened in 1996 about the building society . It is located in the Georg-Kropp-Haus at Haller Straße 3 in Wüstenrot in the Heilbronn district . Objects and documents relating to the founding of the Wüstenrot Bausparkasse as a one-room company and its further development into a well-known financial service giant are on display in seven rooms in the museum . The former residential building is the first stop on the building society history tour through the village of Wüstenrot .

Community of Friends (GdF)

Georg Kropp , a trained chemist , nature lover, mushroom collector, war reporter and temporary member of the Guttempler , founded the Association of Friends ( GdF ) in Wüstenrot in 1921 . As early as 1920 he published his book From Poverty to Prosperity , in which he described the first ideas for a kind of collective saving, called building society savings. The GdF started its activities as a building society in Georg Kropp's living room in 1924. Kropp was the managing director and editor of the in-house magazine Mein Eigenheim . As early as 1926, the workforce, which originally consisted of six, had increased fifty-fold to around 300. In 1930, the company's headquarters were relocated from the then 500-inhabitant community of Wüstenrot to Ludwigsburg against Kropp's will . Thereupon Georg Kropp resigned from all offices and founded the less successful Neue Bausparkasse , NBK or Kroppkasse for short . It was already in liquidation in 1934.

Bauspar Museum

Pauline Kropp, Georg Kropp's wife, bought half of the house in Haller Strasse in 1920 for 14,000 marks . The previous owner was a master shoemaker named Hermann Weber.

In 1984 a memorial was set up in Kropp's former farmhouse half from the 18th century in Wüstenrot, which was expanded in 1996 to become a building society museum. In addition to documents on Georg Kropp's life and work, desks, chairs and filing cabinets, the exhibition is devoted to the development and spread of building society savings in general.

  • Room 1 on the upper floor is the Kropp family's former living and dining room. In the middle of the room is the work and dining table with a historic typewriter from the Continental brand . Kropp kept this typewriter in his possession after he left the GdF in 1930, despite a warning to return it.
  • Room 2 on the upper floor is the Kropp family's former bedroom. The room deals with the building society in general. As of September 1932, 336 building societies were registered in the German Reich .
  • Room 3 on the upper floor is the former kitchen of the Kropp family. The theme of the room was the visit of Federal President Theodor Heuss , who took over the headquarters in Ludwigsburg on August 29, 1954, accompanied by the chairman of the supervisory board and former state parliament president. D. Wilhelm Keil visited.
  • Room 4 on the ground floor is determined by a model (scale 1: 250) of the buildings of the Wüstenrot Group in Ludwigsburg and Kornwestheim . On the wall of the room hangs a card from Wilhelm Kaufmann about the spread of building society savings. The card was used on the occasion of the V. Bausparkassen-Welt-Kongress in 1935 in Salzburg .
  • Room 5 is dedicated to the Wüstenrot advertising graphics from 1925 to 1935. A three-dimensional GdF wooden advertising sign was primarily used at Austrian in-house exhibitions.
  • Room 6 is dedicated to the advertising strategies of other building societies such as the Official Home Office .
  • Room 7 on the ground floor ends the short tour through the history of home savings with a small library on the history of home savings.

Also worth mentioning is the fully functional sales training case in the building's stairwell. The GdF also included a lavishly redesigned passenger car that was used as a movable demonstration model at advertising events all over Germany. Pictures of this vehicle are also shown in the museum.

literature

  • Christoph Seeger: Bauspar Museum in the Georg-Kropp-Haus Wüstenrot. 2nd Edition. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-6020-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Kropp House. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved April 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Seeger (see literature), p. 17
  3. ↑ Seeger (see literature), p. 20

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 48.7 "  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 39.7"  E