F-house
The F-Haus is a cultural monument in Jena used as an event location and guest house .
history
An inn has probably been at this point since the 18th century. After a scandal over incorrectly calibrated beer mugs in 1731, the innkeeper of the lion , Johann Christian Walter, like many other innkeepers in Jena, had to pledge improvement in the town hall under threat of punishment. From the year 1874 there are building files that show an inn at the yellow lion at the place of today's F-house .
Due to the growth of the companies Zeiss and Schott at the end of the 19th century, the organization of workers in Jena also increased. From 1895, they made modifications to the building. In 1895 they built a bowling alley, offices and guest rooms that still exist today, and modernized the facade, which was given large letters. 1906 followed the construction of the hall with stage, in 1912 the attic was rebuilt and the facade redesigned, instead of the Art Nouveau writing, it was given a simpler lettering. The Bauhaus artist Walter Dexel furnished the building with neon advertising in 1928.
On May 2, 1933, the buildings of the German unions were occupied by the SA and the unions were brought into line. Your fortune was transferred to the National Socialist mass organization German Labor Front (DAF). This also related the building in Jena and named it after the Nazi Reichstag deputies and DAF functionary Friedrich Triebel in Fritz Triebel house in order. The restaurant on the ground floor was named Biertunnel Schnapphans or Zum Schnapphans .
From 1946 the building was temporarily renamed the Löwen Trade Union House . However, in 1949 the facade was redesigned again by the GDR building commands and in particular decorations were removed. The building was given the name FDGB-Haus , which is why the colloquial term F-Haus , which is still used today, was derived.
During the GDR workers' uprising on June 17, 1953 , the building was stormed by workers on strike and the paper in it was thrown onto the Johannisplatz in front of the building. A total of around 20,000 people took part in the uprising in Jena, and the 26-year-old locksmith Alfred Diener from Jena was executed as ringleader the next day.
In the following years the building housed a restaurant of the state HO . This in turn was subordinate to the HO-Gaststätte Cosmetica (formerly Kaffee Kempte ) in Dornburger Straße 143 as a branch .
From 1967 to 1972 the F-Haus served as a self-service restaurant for the workers in the construction of today's JenTower . It is true that the state authorities that set the restaurant prices raised the restaurant again from the low-quality price level 2 to the average price level 3. However, the restaurant then had to struggle with hygienic deficiencies in the kitchen and sanitary areas, so that it was closed around 1984. The facility was temporarily reactivated, presumably due to a lack of alternatives, in order to take up the preparatory committee for the 750th anniversary of Jena in October 1986.
At the beginning of 1990 the red letters FDGB-Haus were removed again. Today the building owned by the Ernst Abbe Foundation bears the inscription House of Trade Unions . The Jena restaurateur Steffen Bernhardt (nickname "Alf") has been running the building under the name F-Haus as an event location since 1999 .
Monument protection
For architectural and city history reasons, the building is a cultural monument .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Heinz Voigt: Bar stories: From the union building to the F-house in Jena. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . October 13, 2012, accessed October 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Birgitt Hellmann, Evelyn Halm, Margitta Ballhorn: Jena (= The archive series ). Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 1998, ISBN 3-89702-052-1 , p. 79 .
- ^ The program of the FDGB. Fire and flame for socialism. In: History of the Trade Unions. Hans Böckler Foundation , accessed on October 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Heinz Voigt: Jenaer pub history: "Coffee Kempte" in the style of the new objectivity. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . November 24, 2012, accessed October 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Jördis Bachmann: Is the F-House in Jena closing? In: Thuringian General . January 23, 2015, accessed October 23, 2018 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 45.9 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 56.4 ″ E