Breite Strasse 59 (Stendal)
The house at Breite Straße 59 is a listed building in Stendal . It was presumably built around 1837 as a house for the then city elder as a "single-family house with business premises".
The house had belonged to the Diesing family since at least the end of the 19th century, into which the later owner Gustav Huth married. The house is nicknamed "Huthsches Haus" or the "Huthsche Haus" after him. In the 1930s, the house was completely renovated on Huth's behalf. On the mezzanine floor, if you look at the house, the doctor's practice of Gustav Huth was located on the lower right, the business premises of his wife Margarethe Huth, née Diesing, as the office for this practice, today a hairdressing salon, on the lower left.
During the Second World War , a bomb fell on a back yard of a property opposite the house, which shook the building to its foundations as it rests on a base made of field stones. The vault in the basement prevented the building from collapsing. The plaster cracks caused by the detonation impaired the exterior of the building for decades.
During the GDR era , only makeshift repairs to the building were possible , also due to the GDR's rent policy . The residential and commercial building planned for a family was divided into residential units by the state authorities, so that seven tenants found living space in the house. On the mezzanine floor, as before from the 1920s to 1945, a doctor's practice was housed on the right, facing the house. After the Second World War, there was a state tax consultancy on the left.
After the death of a co-owner in the Huth family in 1984, the house could no longer be kept. The harassment and conditions associated with the ownership of such a piece of land by the authorities forced the owners of the time to renounce the inheritance of the house and thus ceded it to the state. Since he initially refused to accept the house, the heirs who had rejected the house as an inheritance had to pay for the transfer themselves, so that the then Stendal housing management had to take over the house.
The building fell into disrepair, and around the turn of the century, the tenants, including the practice and tax advice, gradually moved out, as it was no longer possible to live or work in this house due to its condition. Due to the circumstances of the nationalization of the building ownership, the Huth heirs had a restitution claim, which they did not exercise due to the condition of the building. The building complex, including the side wing, was then sold to a bidding consortium from Bremen. After two years, the latter, in turn, found itself unable to meet the city's requirements in a timely manner and sold the property to the actor Götz George via a broker as one of three houses in the city of Stendal. George had the property at the corner of 59 Broad Street and Hook extensively renovated and restored it to its current state.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The gold-plated lion with the year 1837 under the balcony suggests the date of completion in 1837
- ↑ Bernd-Volker Brahms: Mourning Götz George in Stendal. In: volksstimme.de. June 28, 2016, accessed June 21, 2018 .