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The Hotel Halber Mond in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) is a historic hotel. It has become known in particular as the venue for the Heppenheim Conference and is now a listed building .
history
In 1617 a feudal farm with the name "Halber Mond" left to the von Helmstedt family was first mentioned in a document at its current location. 1668 a Jakob Balthasar Dietz is named as the host; It must therefore have served as an inn at this point in time, making it the oldest hotel in Heppenheim. The Electoral Mainz Oberamts cellar Johann Mackard was around 1700 owner of the property. In 1827 the innkeeper Louis Franck bought the property. As a result, the inn gained its national reputation. In the run-up to the March Revolution , the "Heppenheim Assembly" took place on October 10, 1847. David Hansemann had chosen the Half Moon as the venue, as rural Heppenheim had the advantage of being away from the centers of potential revolutionaries such as Mannheim . At the same time, it was also easily accessible from the north via Frankfurt am Main and from the south via Mannheim via the newly opened Main-Neckar Railway , and with the Halben Mond it also had a nationally known inn near the train station.
After Louis Franck, his son Heinrich Franck became the next owner. After 1868 he carried out major modifications. In particular, in 1902 a new south wing was built based on designs by Heinrich Metzendorf . Large parts of the building were destroyed by fire in 1911. The then owner Karl Michael Seibert, Franck's son-in-law, again commissioned Metzendorf to plan the reconstruction. At that time the symmetrical system was created, which still exists today.
In 1940 the hotel was closed and used as a national Red Cross school and nursing school. In 1947/48 the ruling chambers used the building for denazification. After that it was used as a hotel again.
It has been owned by the city of Heppenheim since 1974. After renovation, it will be used as a community center, hotel and restaurant. A closure distillery with a 200 liter still and a pub brewery have been in operation since 2011 .
Building description
The building complex with address Ludwigstrasse 5 essentially consists of two gable-side main buildings with high mansard roofs. Between these there is a long, also two-storey connecting wing with a simple gable roof. On the south side, an extension for the large hall with stage was added in 1925/26. The windows of the hotel have sandstone walls. The eaves are coffered and decorated with tooth-cut ornamentation. The entrance next to the north wing consists of a portico, the triangular gable of which is supported on massive Ionic pairs of columns. Next to this gate is an alliance coat of arms, which was found in the rubble after the fire in 1911 and which refers to the marriage of Maria Margarete Mackard with the clerk Georg Friedrich Menshengen. It is a family coat of arms adorned with a rich crest and bears the inscription: "VOLENTE DEO fortis in adversis casusque (correct: casu quo) immotus ad omnes" (According to God's will, brave in misfortune and undeterred in the face of all strokes of fate). Inside the building, the original Metzendorf staircase with its beautiful wrought-iron railing is still there. The rest of the building is largely renewed.
The hotel is a listed building, which is strategically effective in a conveniently central location and, as the work of the renowned Bergstrasse architect Heinrich Metzendorf, it is of architectural historical importance. As a traditional inn and starting point for the liberal democratic movement of the 19th century, it is also of extraordinary historical relevance.
Entrance portal
Alliance coat of arms
Home brewery
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Hotel "Halber Mond" In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 29.6 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 18.8" E