Former journeyman's house in Heppenheim
The former journeyman's house is located in the center of Heppenheim on Bergstrasse and was completed in 1873. Due to the historical and artistic construction details that are worth preserving, the building was placed under monument protection in 2015 .
history
The building, located in the city center in Heppenheim / Bergstrasse, looks back on an eventful history. The house got its current appearance after major renovation and expansion work in 1903 and the major renovation carried out in 2015.
In 1873 the building was completed and inaugurated as the “journeyman's house”. It was used by the Gesellenverein Heppenheim (origin of today's Kolping family Heppenheim) as accommodation for the wandering craft journeymen . In the years from 1892 to 1900 the house on the “Graben” housed a cigar factory, among other things.
In 1900 the journeyman's house was transferred to the parish of St. Peter and since then has also been used by other associations. Therefore, the journeyman's house was extensively rebuilt in 1903 and converted into a "Catholic club house".
In the years 1903–2002 the former journeyman's house was used as a club house with a restaurant, first mentioned as "Wirtschaft zum Adler". During this time it was operated by various tenants, including the Norbert Schneider family, who had resumed operations in July 1982 after the renovation phase.
In 2002 the club house on the Graben was taken over as a tenant by the Heppenheim restaurateur Uwe Hörner. Until it was closed in 2013, the dining restaurant operated under the name "Kupferkessel". During this time the club house was home to many clubs. Among other things, the "copper kettle" was something like the stronghold of the Heppenheimer Saalfastnacht.
In 2013 there was a change of tenant from Uwe Hörner to the married couple Christine and Michael Kiesewetter. The new tenants were the operators of the "AZ" restaurant in the shadow of St. Peter's Church in Heppenheim's old town.
In November 2014, the married couple Gisela and Hans-Jürgen Goss acquired the venerable traditional house on Graben from the parish of St. Peter. The building in need of renovation was gutted and modernized. The new opening took place in autumn 2015 under the name "Gossini".
In April 2015, at the suggestion of interior designer Kerstin Bertz, interior designer from the Heppenheim planning office "raum in form - interior design and architecture", the building was presented to the State Monuments Office of Hesse. Due to the numerous historical and artistic building details that were worth preserving during the gutting and demolition, a joint initiative between interior designer Kerstin Bertz and builders Gisela and Hans-Jürgen Goss applied to the State Office for Monument Preservation of Hesse for inclusion in the list of monuments. In June 2015, the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse officially named the former journeyman's house a “cultural monument” according to § 2.1 Hessian Monument Protection Act.
The entry in the list of monuments was justified by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse as follows:
“Building erected in 1873 by the Heppenheim master builder Klein for the journeyman's association Heppenheim, which was founded in 1864 and which, in the spirit of Adolf Kolping, endeavored to train and accommodate the traveling journeymen. For financial reasons, the building had to be sold after a few years and a cigar factory was set up here for a while. Under the prelate and vicar general Franz Engelhardt, it was acquired again in the 1890s for the journeyman's association, which was newly founded in 1889, and was used as a club house in the following years. In 1903 a major renovation was carried out by the Bensheim architect Ludwig Kessler. "
Building description
“Elongated, single-storey plastered building with two differently designed, only slightly protruding risalits. The northern risalit with a distinctive tail gable, which contains the inscription "Katholisches Vereinhaus 1873", the southern one with a simple half-timbered storey and a gable roof gable. Here in a bar at the level of the eaves line the inscription: “Everything is due to God's blessing”. Ground floor window with accentuated sandstone frames, in the south risalit a basket arch, in the north risalit triangular gable. At the rear wide sandstone portal to the former beer garden, to which a staircase leads down. Inside, stone stairs with iron railings influenced by Art Nouveau lead to the upper floor via two heels. In the large hall with a steel girder ceiling, there are some old doors with round-arched skylights and remnants of wall frames. In a room in the attic, below the ceiling, wall paintings by an unknown journeyman, which among other things show signs for the various guilds, as well as the inscription: "God bless the honorable craft". The clubhouse, located in the entire complex I of the Heppenheim old town, is a cultural monument due to its local and social historical importance, its urban development effect, but also because of its interesting artistic details. § 2.1 Hess. Monument Protection Act. "
The monument topography "Bergstrasse I" has therefore been corrected in the meantime.
Photo gallery
Gossini hall
Implementation planning
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Former journeyman's house Heppenheim In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 31.7 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 32" E