The good old days (relief)
The good old days is the name of a sandstone relief in the old town of Koblenz . The relief, created around 1912, was originally placed above the entrance door of the Hotel Rheingold. After its destruction in 1944, it was stored in various locations until it was able to be set up again near its old location in Rheinstrasse for the 2011 Federal Horticultural Show .
history
The relief "The good old days" was created around 1912 for the newly built Hotel Rheingold (Rheinstrasse 12) and placed above the entrance door. Before that, there was a restaurant of the same name in the same place since the 19th century . The Rheinstrasse played an important role as a connection route between the landing stages of the Rhine ships in the Rhine facilities and the old town of Koblenz. The houses were built in the style of historicism common in the Wilhelminian era . The owners of the restaurant, the Trachten family, had the hotel built on the same site in 1912.
The text "The good old days" was placed below the sandstone relief above the entrance door. The relief shows an atmospheric pub scene with citizens in good company, in keeping with the custom of the Wilhelminian era at the end of the 19th century.
Until it was completely destroyed during the air raids in World War II, Rheinstrasse reflected these “good old days”. The Hotel Rheingold, like all other houses on Rheinstrasse, was destroyed to the ground in the heaviest air raid on November 6, 1944. Only the entrance door with the relief above survived the bombing almost unscathed.
The relief was rescued from the rubble by the family who ran the former hotel and kept it. After the war, Rheinstrasse was completely rebuilt. In place of the hotel there is the building complex of the Riesenfürstenhof today. The relief was attached to the rebuilt shopkeeper's guild house in the 1950s by Fritz Heitger, who was related to the Trachten family through marriage . After the shopkeeper changed hands, the relief was removed and stored in the garden of the Florinskirche . But there it weathered over time.
The Heitger family tried to save the relief from further destruction. With the fundamental redesign of Rheinstrasse for the 2011 Federal Garden Show , there was now an opportunity to restore the relief and present it to a wider public near its old location. For this purpose, it was left to the city of Koblenz and integrated into a concrete retaining wall in Rheinstrasse in October 2010. In 2012, further renovation measures followed on the relief and it was equipped with weather protection. In January 2015, in cooperation with the monument office , an information board was set up that tells the story of the relief.
Web links
- The good old days are back in: weissergasse-koblenz.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board explains sandstone relief ( memento of the original dated February 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: news-koblenz.de, January 22, 2015
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 12.5 ″ E