Fleiner Strasse 9 (Heilbronn)
The development of the property on Fleiner Straße 9 in Heilbronn was documented by the House of City History as an example of residential and commercial buildings in Heilbronn city center.
history
The Fleiner and Sülmerstrasse in Heilbronn still show roughly the course of the old street that connected two city gates: in the south the Fleiner Tor on the road to Flein , in the north the Sülmer Tor on the road to Neckarsulm . Not much is known about the earliest development on the property. From 1662 a stone with a house inscription has been preserved in the collection of the Historical Museum, on which a cauldron decorated with a coat of arms held by two griffins can be seen. Johann and Barbara Küntzert are named as builders of the house. The previous building of the house built in 1662 may have been damaged in the Thirty Years' War .
In the 19th century, the forest ranger Martin Leonhard Weigand and the cologne manufacturer Fochenberger lived in the building from the 17th century. In September 1894 the house fell victim to a fire, as a result of which it was demolished up to the first floor.
The rebuilding was carried out in 1895 in half-timbered construction , the plans came from the architects Maute & Moosbrugger . At that time the house belonged to the master glazier Ludwig Burger. In 1911 the stamp maker and engraver August Müller bought this house for 82,000 gold marks. Müller had learned his trade from his uncle Heinrich Müller in Mainz , took over the business of engraver Moritz Keller in 1903 and ran it first in Grosse Biedermannsgasse 7 and then in the same street in house no.
On the first floor of the house at Fleiner Straße 9 there were two shops that were still occupied by the furniture and bed house Kern in the 1920s. August Müller established his stamp business in one of the shops, and he also used the rear building for his stamp factory. At times a branch of the Heilbronn tobacco goods center was located in one of the shops, where Müller's wife Elise, nee. Scheufler and his daughter Martha (or Marta) worked. The Müller family, to which another daughter belonged, lived on part of the first floor of the house, on the second floor lived with the Kurz-Hildenbrand family: Marie Hildenbrand, nee. Müller, a sister of August Müller, with her husband, their children and their grandchildren. There were also other tenants in the house.
In 1932 Adolf Elsner opened a fashion shop on the left-hand side of the ground floor, which after his death in 1933 was taken over by the daughter of the house owner, Martha Müller. She operated it for a few years under the name MM-Moden. Her sister Charlotte emigrated to the USA in 1933.
At times the sculptor Robert Grässle had his studio in the attic of the house. In 1929, based on a plaster cast, Grässle carved a replica of the 15th-century group of figures of the Annunciation from the former Klarakloster in Heilbronn. The city had already sold the original in the 19th century. It may have been from Hans Seyfer .
The house at Fleiner Strasse 9 was destroyed in the air raids on December 4, 1944 . Eight residents died in the basement; the owner of the house, August Müller, was probably also killed that day. His body was not found or identified. The heiress of the rubble property, Martha Müller, meanwhile married or widowed Schanzenbach, sold it in May 1949 for 20,000 DM to Gustav and Margarete Töpfer. Two years later, when they were resold, they received DM 32,500 for the property. Martha Müller continued her late father's business under the old name of Stempelmüller at 20 Sülmer Straße.
The new owner was Merkur AG. She had a department store built on the property based on Egon Eiermann's designs . This Merkur department store was inaugurated in March 1952. As early as 1953 but the department stores of Merkur AG became the property of Horten & Co. over. The Eiermann building had to give way to a new building that opened in October 1969. It now houses a Galeria Kaufhof .
Museum preparation
In the Haus der Stadtgeschichte, which is only a few meters away from Fleiner Straße 9, the building has its own media station. A large display shows a photograph of the building in its pre-WWII shape. A photo series with images of the building from the oldest photographs to the present is running on a monitor embedded in it. The visitor can use a doorbell bar with the names of the residents of the house from the pre-war period, whereupon the person's apartment is highlighted on the display and further information about it appears on the recessed monitor. Recessed niches and drawers in the display show exhibits related to the residents of the house: the Grässle replica of the Annunciation Group (Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Inv. No. KSS 7894-01-257), a stamp box from the company's range Stempelmüller and a stamp from the production of August Müller, which he cut for his nephew, who was stationed at the Arctic Circle during World War II, and which shows Scandinavia as the proverbial "ass of the world". Another media desk is dedicated to a wedding photo from 1934 and shows which of the people depicted on it are related to the house at Fleiner Strasse 9. It was the wedding of Dora Tränkle, August Müller's niece, who ran a flower shop in the opposite building, Fleiner Strasse 18. Her husband Wilhelm Wolpert owned a nursery on Winzerstrasse.
literature
- Peter Wanner among others: Heilbronn historically! Developing a city on the river. The exhibitions in the Otto Rettenmaier House / House of City History and in the Museum in the Deutschhof (= small series of publications from the City of Heilbronn Archives. 62). Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2013, ISBN 978-3-940646-11-8 (Further series: Museo. 26. Further ISBN 978-3-936921-16-8 ), pp. 150–153.
- Peter Wanner: Heilbronn historically! On the conception of the new city history exhibition in the Otto Rettenmaier House / House of City History in Heilbronn . In: heilbronnica 5. Contributions to the city and regional history (sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn 20) , Heilbronn 2013, pp. 13–34, here pp. 30–32.
Individual evidence
- ↑ House inscription on www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de
- ↑ a b c d e History and pictures of the development on www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de
- ↑ facade plan heuss.stadtarchiv-heilbronn.de
- ↑ a b c The fates of the house residents on www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de
- ↑ Grässle's replica of the group of figures at www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de
- ↑ Read on www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de; According to the documents under the signature ZS-912 in the Heilbronn city archive, August Müller was already based in Fleiner Strasse 9 in 1903 and his daughter Marta Schanzenbach continued the business at Sülmerstrasse 24/26 after the war.
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '23.4 " N , 9 ° 13' 5.9" E