Hauptstrasse 97 (Bergheim)
The house at Hauptstrasse 97 in Bergheim was built in 1769. In the first half of the 20th century the building was used as an office and apartment for the mayor or district administrator by the mayor's office of Paffendorf and later Bergheim, which is why the building is also known as the district administrator and mayor's house .
Building history and architecture
House No. 97 is a two-storey plastered building with six axes and a mansard roof . The year 1769 is given in anchor pins above the first floor as the year of construction. The building has a richly decorated skylight door with the Frentz coat of arms on top. The window frames are made of andesite with shellwork cartouches in the apex of the flat arches . According to the architectural style, the house could have come from the Aachen master builder Jakob Couven (1735–1812), who was also working on Zieverich Castle at the time and was the son and successor of the famous Baroque master builder Johann Josef Couven .
use
In 1799 the landowner Johann Heinrich Gottfried Frentz lived in this house, whose originally noble family came from a castle in Frenz an der Inde. Johann Heinrich Gottfried Frentz was born at Haus Angelsdorf, but stayed, at least temporarily, in Bergheim from 1768, although he lived mostly at Haus Angelsdorf until 1779. He is therefore likely to have built house No. 97 in Bergheim.
Johann Heinrich Gottfried had married Adelheid Kannengiesser, the daughter of the mayor of Düren , whose son Franz Anton took over the house after his father's death. He was mayor of Bergheim from 1819 to 1837. To whom the house passed after his death in 1837 is not yet known.
The house was initially rented in 1909 by the mayor's office of Paffendorf for an annual rent of 450 marks and in 1916 bought by the heirs of Ferdinand Daniels for 27,500 marks. The office of the mayoral administration of Paffendorf and Bergheim was set up in the basement. The upper floor served as an apartment for Mayor Alfred Kirch. The house later became the property of the district and was used as the apartment of the Bergheim district administrator. After the Second World War, the Institute for Mental Hygiene had its domicile here. In 2006 a Bergheim entrepreneur bought the building, which has served as a residential and commercial building since then.
literature
- Heinz Andermahr, Heinz Braschoß, Helmut Schrön, Ralph Jansen: Bergheim City Guide. District town Bergheim (Ed.), Bergheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-9801975-8-8 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '9.8 " N , 6 ° 38' 7.6" E