Hammer (Windeck)

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The Hotel Hammer at the beginning of the 20th century.
The sheer rock face on the Sieg was perhaps eponymous

Hammer (today Herchen-Bahnhof ) is a place that is located north on the middle reaches of the Sieg and thus on the edge of the Bergisches Land . The place belonged to the municipality of Herchen (today municipality of Windeck ).

Surname

The origin of the name is in the dark. Since there is neither a reference to the village of Hamm nor a reference to a hammer mill , the possibility of a very old place name remains open, since hamer not only had the meaning of hammer in old Germanic, but also stood for stone . And here the steep rocky banks of the Sieg are particularly noticeable.

Emergence

The first documentary mention concerned the construction of the railway on the Victory Line . In 1860 it was led past Herchen through the 370 m long tunnel through the Reifershardt , which was a popular summer resort . This made the construction of a remote station necessary. It was chosen to be close to the junction to Leuscheid . The Hotel Hammer was then built directly opposite the confluence at that time, a railroad crossing with barriers. 1875 was the first time the Ackerer Carl Hundhausen, son of the innkeeper Friedrich Gerhard Hundhausen to hammer called. In 1877 the father is called a manufacturer when the daughter marries. This makes the place a young place that emerged from the industrial development of the 19th century.

Residents

In addition to the residents of the Hammer Hotel, the station building and Hotel Burbach on the southern bank of the Sieg, i.e. on the edge of the Westerwald , were named in the municipal archives as belonging to the Hammer. From the latter, the Igelshof district emerged , which developed further through the neighborhood to the pedagogy emerging in Herchen (later Bodelschwingh'sche Anstalten).

In 1888 there were 44 residents in five houses.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the following households were registered as residents of the village of Hammer:

1901

Ackerer Bartholomäus Bechher, Burbach, landlord, cattle u. Building materials dealer Friedrich Wilhelm Burbach, innkeeper Zum Hammer Amalie Hundhausen, farm worker Wwe. Friedrich Gerhard Hundhausen, railway foreman Ludwig Krommes, landlord and butcher Friedrich Rötzel, pensioner Wilhelm Schreiner and station master Wilhelm Thiemann.

1910

Farmer Friedrich Wilhelm Burbach, delicatessen dealer Albert Düsberg, innkeeper Amalie Hundhausen, herb manufacturer and building materials dealer Gottlieb Land, innkeeper Friedrich Wilhelm Rözel, station supervisor Karl Kreuz, railway assistant Johann Schmidt, railway assistant Wilhelm Gerhards and master tailor Ferdinand Schumacher.

House Dernburg is listed as a separate district in this list. In addition to the widow Dr. The teacher Fritz Priesemann is never listed here. A Viktor Kreusch is recorded for Castle Reifershardt .

Infrastructure

In 1910 there were three official telephones in the small village with six buildings in addition to the railway telephone: Gasthof Hammer No. 28, Krautfabrik Land No. 86 and Restauration Rötzel No. 27, all of which are Amt Eitorf . Another, No. 59, was installed in Haus Dernburg, as well as one in the poultry farm (Wuppertaler Stadtwerke), which later belonged to the town, with No. 91. In the rest of the municipality of Herchen there were only five other telephones.

hotel

The hotel in the 1920s with a gas station
The outbuilding was used as a car garage in the 1930s
The Hotel Hammer in the 1960s with the outbuilding that was still standing, which was initially an apple patch, then an agricultural machinery dealer and from 1946 to 1997 a car repair shop

The hosts were Friedrich Gerhard Hundhausen in 1875, Gustav Pascher in 1913, Karl Land from 1919 until the Second World War , Magdalene Nattmann in 1945 (who died when the bomb was dropped) and later.

Auxiliary systems

Hotel Hammer also had a dance hall (later also a cinema), a beer garden with a pond and fountain, bowling alley, a hotel's own petrol station, fishing and a swimming pool in the Sieg.

The farm building to the south (half-timbered from a demolished house in Herchen) originally served as an apple cabbage slap . In the 1920s, the Siegtaler Maschinenfabrik Herchen GmbH was housed here. It produced and sold agricultural machinery and equipment.

After the machine factory went bankrupt, the building was used as a garage . In 1933 it was sold and expanded into a garage with a gas station. The house is now used as a residential building.

The stables, damaged by aerial bombs at the end of World War II, were demolished a short time later. Garages were built in their place. These were later expanded as a snack bar and are now used as a residential building.

On the southern part of the property, a house was built for the Land daughter and another house was built above the hammer by the post-war owners.

Bar

discotheque

In the 1970s the hall was converted into a disco. After the economy was first run as pata pata , it was run as tannit shortly before its end . The former guest rooms were then rented out to guest workers as apartments.

renaming

In 1909 the place was referred to as Herchen-Hammer in the Eitorfer Zeitung on the occasion of the collapsed railway bridge during the victory flood in 1909 . In 1919, for the first time, a birth certificate no longer indicated Hammer, but Herchen-Bahnhof . In the meantime other buildings had been erected, such as B. the poultry farm (today Haus Herchen of the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke ), the Gasthof Friedrich Rözel (later Kölner Hof) and 1906 Haus Duisberg (later Sonneck). This made the hammer one building among many. But until 1953 the Hammer building was still shown separately on official maps next to Herchen train station.

destruction

In 1935 the lido belonging to the hotel, a wooden house with changing rooms occupied by a lifeguard, was torn away during a flood. In 1945 the stables were laid down after being damaged by aerial bombs. In the early morning hours of April 12, 1973, the hotel burned down completely.

  • Advertisement from the Eitorfer Zeitung from 1913

  • Newspaper advertisement from 1919

  • Advertisement from the 1928 newspaper

Web links

Commons : Hammer (Windeck)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland, edition 1888, p. 112
  2. ^ Population directory of the Siegkreis 1901.
  3. ^ Resident address book of the Siegkreis 1910.
  4. ^ Resident address book of the Siegkreis 1910.
  5. ^ Document on the sale of 3,000 potato graters to Thuringia from October 17, 1923, Olbertz archive
  6. ↑ http://www.koelner-brauerei-verband.de/brauerei-gilden-koelsch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Höhenhaus Pils.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.koelner-brauerei-verband.de  
  7. ↑ Rhein-Sieg-Rundschau of April 13, 1973, major fire made 27 people homeless.

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E