Bookstore Ms. Stritter
The bookstore Fr. Stritter is a traditional bookstore in Heilbronn . As the oldest bookstore in Heilbronn, the company can look back on a tradition dating back to 1688. In her publishing house , which was affiliated from 1748 until the second half of the 19th century, under the publishers Eckebrecht, Class and Landherr, several important works have been published, including writings by Robert Mayer . The company has been owned by the Stritter family since 1901. The bookstore moved to its current location at Gymnasiumstraße 37 after the Second World War .
history
After there had been printers in Heilbronn from around 1500 who also traded in books, a pure bookstore is not yet occupied for that time. It was not until Johann Christian Kehl, who received citizenship in Heilbronn in 1688, that a bookseller in the imperial city was first recorded. The location of the shop at that time is no longer known; but it could have been in the building of the Gasthof Sonne on Sülmerstrasse. In 1748 the bookstore was taken over by Paul Straub, who incorporated a publishing house into it.
In 1750 the bookstore was owned by Franz Joseph Eckebrecht from Vienna. He was the (anonymous) author of the Defensionsschrift in which the Reich booksellers complained about their concerns. Eckebrecht campaigned in Heilbronn to ensure that bookbinders and peddlers were not allowed to trade in books. His business was probably at Fleiner Straße 20. Eckebrecht, who also ran a branch in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , published numerous books himself, including multi-volume works on world and church history, and from 1782 also operated a lending library in Heilbronn.
After a brief further owner, the bookstore came to Johann Daniel Class in 1792, who had his shop in Presencegasse 881. In 1793, Friedrich Schiller was a customer of the Heilbronn bookstore during his stay in Heilbronn, as he announced in a letter to Christian Gottfried Körner . In 1799, Class published Melchior Adam Weikard's medical-practical handbook , followed in 1823 and 1828 with AE Bruckmann's The memorable fountains in Oberdischingen in Württemberg and Karl Friedrich Jaeger's History of the City of Heilbronn, including works of regional history .
After Class' death in 1829, his son Ernst Clemens Class continued the business in Heilbronn. The branch in Rothenburg was continued as an independent business by his brother-in-law CF Deubold. Ernst Clemens Class died in 1840 at the age of only 37. The bookstore was then continued by the authorized signatory Johann Ulrich Landherr, who married Class' daughter Friederike in 1842 and took over the bookstore. Landherr published an address book for Heilbronn in 1843 as well as writings by Robert Mayer in 1848 and 1851 .
In 1855, Landherr sold the bookstore to Carl Friedrich Schmidt. In 1873 he gave his colleague Ernst Becker from Malchin power of attorney and in 1876 ceded the bookstore, which was meanwhile in Kramstrasse, and his house to Becker in order to dedicate himself to his music publishing company in the future. This ended the publishing activity, because Becker and his successors continued the bookstore as a pure range bookstore . In 1890 Becker sold the bookstore to Messrs. Stritter and Kessler. Kessler left a few years later, so that the Stritter family has been the sole owner of the bookstore since 1901.
After Friedrich Stritter's death in 1913, his widow Klara moved into new business premises in Kaiserstraße 22 opposite the Käthchenhaus in 1916 . After the end of the First World War , the son Fritz Stritter joined the company, which he continued with his sister Hilde as a general partnership. Hilde Stritter left the company in 1937. Fritz Stritter was called up for military service in World War II , and his wife Hedwig continued to run the business.
In the air raid on December 4, 1944 , both the Stritters' apartment and business premises were destroyed. Hedwig Stritter was evacuated to Wüstenrot and tried to run the shop in a garden log house with relatives in Heilbronn's Alexanderstraße. Fritz Stritter returned to Heilbronn after the end of the war. The tentative rebuilding of the company began in 1946 as a joint shop with the Engelhardt fashion store on Staufenbergstrasse in Heilbronn-Sontheim .
In 1948 the son Peter Stritter joined the business. In 1949 the bookstore moved into premises at the corner of Gymnasium- and Titotstraße in Heilbronn, in what was initially only a makeshift war ruin that was rebuilt in the following years. For a long time there was also a grocery store in the building, so the space was very limited. When the grocery store moved to a neighboring building in 1973, the bookstore was able to double its area. In 1977 Andreas Stritter joined the company. In 1979 the company took over the Recksiek bookstore, which had previously specialized in specialist books.
When senior boss Fritz Stritter left the company in 1987, Peter and Andreas Stritter converted the company into a GmbH .
On June 15, 1988, the company celebrated its 300th anniversary on the roof terrace of the Insel-Hotel , which also became the last public appearance of the city library director Hans Ulrich Eberle , who died the following night.
In 1994, Stritter took over the Tabler bookstore, which in future would focus on children's and youth literature as well as fiction, while the main store concentrated primarily on specialist literature. In 2009 the bookstore Tabler was given up; since then, the company has been operating as the Tabler & Stritter bookstore at a single location at Gymnasiumstrasse 37 in Heilbronn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Heinz Dähn u. a. (Ed.): HUE or Die Lust an der Kultur , Heilbronn 1989.
literature
- Buchhandlung Fr. Stritter (Ed.): Where Schiller was already a customer. 300 years of bookstore Fr. Stritter 1688–1988. Heilbronn 1988
Web links
- Chronicle at stritter.de