Elbers office building
The Elberssche Kontorhaus was built between 1807 and 1810 as an office building for the Johann Heinrich Elbers cloth company and was also used for manufacturing. It is one of the two surviving Monschau houses with an arched rafter roof.
Here, from 1810 to 1815, David Friederich Hansemann (1790–1864) in Vormärz , one of the leaders of political and economic liberalism in the Rhineland, found his first job.
After the closure of the Elbers cloth company in mid-1886, the building served as a higher municipal boys' school from 1895 to 1924. After the subsequent private use, the house was extensively restored by the Wirtz family in 1990 and is now a listed building .
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Bronze plaque next to the entrance
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 16.13 " N , 6 ° 14 ′ 45.7" E