Building society history circular route through the village of Wüstenrot
The building society history circular route through the village of Wüstenrot is a two-kilometer-long, 13-station circular route in Wüstenrot that was opened in 1996 and passes through twelve buildings that are directly related to the building society history of Wüstenrot. Some of the buildings are listed. The thirteenth station is the honorary grave of Georg Kropps , the honorary citizen of Wüstenrot and founder of the Bausparkasse Gemeinschaft der Freunde Wüstenrot (GdF).
Stations
Haller Straße 3 - Wüstenrot headquarters
The listed parent company Haller Straße 3 , the first home of the Kropp family, is a semi-detached house from what used to be a typical inner-village farm in the Mainhardt Forest low mountain range . Since 1984 the building has been a memorial for building society savings. In 1995 the building society museum was opened after extensive renovation . From the outside it is a simple house that has been preserved in a side street off the main street.
Haller Strasse 31 - Binder house
The Tax Secretary a. D. and friar of the Guttempler Karl Binder built the first home in Wüstenrot with GdF funds on March 29, 1926.
The first house financed with building money from the cash register was not in Wüstenrot, but in Heidenheim an der Brenz . On April 7, 1924, Chief Railway Inspector Johannes Rau from Heidenheim signed the first GdF building society savings contract. For social reasons he ceded this contract to the postbus driver Josef Kümmel. In November 1924, Kümmel received the first construction money of 10,000 marks. With this money, the first house financed with GdF funds was built at Robert-Koch-Straße 25 in Heidenheim, which was inaugurated on July 11, 1925. On this day Georg Kropp, State Secretary Mathilde Planck and a large crowd were present. Like Kropp and Ankele, Karl Binder was a member of the Guttempler Order and in 1921 a founding member of the GdF and was later employed by it.
In 1936 the Reichsbund Deutscher Hausfrauen became the new owner of the house.
Haller Strasse 34 - Haas house
The Haas house was Heinrich Haas's house. Haas was a member of the GdF management from 1938 to 1945. After the GdF moved to Ludwigsburg, Haas sold the building to Georg Kropps' friend, the pedagogue and chronicler Carl Schönleber.
Hauptstrasse 11 - Old Town Hall
The community center and local history museum of the community (old town hall) is located at Hauptstrasse 11 in Wüstenrot. From January to May 1925 Georg Kropp rented three rooms on the ground floor for GdF after the rooms at Haller Strasse 3 had become too cramped. Kropp himself took a seat in the middle room so that his employees could always reach him. The building is baroque , was restored in 1990 and has a stucco ceiling inside .
Bethanien - Villa Daheim
On April 7, 1925, the GdF acquired the outwardly villa-like building from a manufacturer from Hamburg by the name of Löffelhardt. The Kropp family lived upstairs. Office space was on the ground floor, and building money raffles were held in the park until February 1926. In the 1980s a service center was built over the building.
Kroppstrasse 2–4 - director's villa
In the mid-1920s, the GdF grew incessantly against the general trend and had two wooden houses built, House 2 for the management and House 4 for the administration. In the interior, the buildings can still be seen today in their original function as offices. The house is one of several representative "further director's villas in Kropp- and Wellingtonienstrasse."
Lerchenstrasse 1 - New building society
Kroppkasse, NBK or Neue Bausparkasse was the name of the less successful competing company that Kropp founded between 1930 and 1934 and that was based here on Lerchenstrasse. Annoyed about the move of the company that had slipped out of his hands, Kropp founded the NBK, whose real estate assets essentially consisted of the two-family house on Lerchenstrasse. He led a legal dispute against the Bausparkasse Wüstenrot and demanded, among other things, the surrender of his typewriter, which is still on display in the Bauspar Museum at Haller Straße 3.
Löwensteiner Strasse 38 - German Earth
Ernst Kimmerle, a graduate economist, and his three daughters ran the building society Deutsche Erde, founded in 1931, in this house . Kimmerle was a former senior employee of Georg Kropp. In 1933, Deutsche Erde ceased business operations.
Löwensteiner Strasse 48 - Villa Kropps
The neat house was built in 1926/27. Georg Kropp and his wife Pauline lived here until Georg Kropp's death on the night of January 21-22, 1943 at the age of 77. The villa was built by Gustav Daucher from Stuttgart .
Wellingtonienstraße 15 - Director's Villa (Schuon House)
Managing director Hermann Schuon , who played a key role in the relocation of the GdF headquarters to Ludwigsburg, lived here in the house built in 1926. He left the company in 1933. After the end of the war in 1945 he headed the GdF until 1960. The house is one of several representative "further director's villas in Kroppstrasse and Wellingtonstrasse."
Wellingtonienstrasse 19–21 - GdF company flat
In 1925, the GdF built this gable-independent double house for married company employees with children. From 1930 the house was called Haus Sonnenheil .
Wellingtonienstrasse 31 - Ankele House
Master of the Post Office Robert Ankele, member of the Guttempler order and a founding member of the GdF with seven other idealists, lived here at Wellingtonienstrasse 31. He was a member of the building society's board of directors from 1926 to 1929 and again from 1933 to 1945.
Haldenweg - family grave and honorary grave Kropp (13)
The family and honor grave of Georg Kropps is located here. The tombstone consists of a boulder. On a stone slab is Kropp's motto, will save, trust in God will build father houses . In 1990 a bronze plaque with the Kropps bas-relief was placed there.
literature
- Christoph Seeger: Bauspar Museum in the Georg-Kropp-Haus Wüstenrot. 2nd Edition. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-6020-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ File: Wuestenrot Haus Haller Strasse 3 Detail 20100410.jpg
- ↑ a b c d e Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , p. 310