German House (Marienfeld)
The German House is a listed half-timbered house in the Harsewinkel district of Marienfeld in the Gütersloh district , North Rhine-Westphalia , which was last used as a hotel and restaurant .
history
The German House was built in 1789 as a bakery and grocery store. There is evidence of a post office since 1851, which presumably existed there since the 18th century. Around 1900 the building received an extension with a turret in the west. Furthermore, Anton Viehmeier had the "Africa Hall" and the winter garden set up.
Gütersloh Airport opened in 1938 and dance events were offered that were frequented by young women from all over the region. Towards the end of the Second World War, a hospital was set up in the premises . The building then served as the Viehmeier inn until 1967 . On August 5, 1973, a short circuit in the electrical installation caused a smoldering fire in the building at around five o'clock in the morning , resulting in property damage of more than DM 350,000. The previous tenant Rowan from Austria then gave up the building.
In 1974 the textile merchant Bruno Kleine bought the house and found an opportunity to open his first clothing store in the Afrikasaal. After he was able to complete a new building on the adjoining site, the Seifert family leased the property and ran the “Le coq d'or” restaurant there for about ten years.
On July 5, 1991, the house was entered under the number 41 in the list of architectural monuments in Harsewinkel . It was extensively renovated by 1999 and opened with new guest rooms under Jeroen Hemme. On July 13, 2014, the lessee gave up the business. From October 5, 2015, the Kleine family rented the building to the city of Harsewinkel, which uses it as refugee accommodation for up to 30 people. This building has not been used since 2016.
architecture
The four-column house with gable roof extends in an east-west direction and is traufständig for federal highway 513 . The compartments are plastered. The eaves on the south side are profiled with carved filler wood in between. There is a tooth cut frieze above it . At the east end of the south side there is a dwelling with a loading hatch.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Löschzug Marienfeld (ed.): 100 years of volunteer fire brigade Marienfeld fire brigade . Marienfeld 2011, p. 29 f .
- ↑ City rents hotel for refugees. New West African, accessed October 8, 2015 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 28.2 " N , 8 ° 17 ′ 30.4" E