Baaken house
Haus Baaken is a listed building, centrally located in the Kempen district of Tönisberg .
Building history
The oldest parts of the building, the remainder of a two-storey half-timbered framework, date back to the period before 1600, according to several indications. In a thorough renovation, the building was given its current facade in 1750, as is documented by the iron gable decoration. This is characterized by the Dutch late Baroque design of the outer walls facing the streets and the tail gable with ball attachments. Due to the municipality boundary in the middle of Tönisberg, Haus Baaken belonged to the municipality of Schaephuysen until 1929 .
The building was used as an inn for over 250 years. This was called Jägerhof and Restauration zum Hirschen and, since the end of the 19th century, its current name, Haus Baaken, after the owner at the time, Johann Baaken.
In 1986 the building underwent a major renovation with various alterations to better use the restaurant. After the restaurant was closed in 2002, these renovations were reversed when the new owner, Lutz Weynans, carried out another renovation in 2006/2007.
From 2008 to 2017, the former guest rooms, consisting of a lounge with a Cologne ceiling , a fireplace room and an operating room, housed the Lower Rhine Pottbäckerkeramik Museum, the owner Weynans' regional pottery collection with wall tiles and bowls. In the oldest part of the building, the former taproom, the Heimatstube of the Heimatverein Tönisberg was set up, in which, among other things, a loom reminded of the local house weaving mill. The upper floors were used as living space.
At the beginning of 2017 the building was sold for private use and the collection of the Pottbäckermuseum was given to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum , the home parlor was cleared.
literature
- Christoph Dautermann: Haus Baaken - architecturally and historically , in urban house construction on the Lower Rhine from the 15th to the 18th century, Cologne 1992, pp. 190–193
- Hans Krudewig: The Memorial House Baaken , in Tönisberger Heimathefte, 2000, pp. 33–37
- Lutz Weynans: Baaken House - Conversion of a 400-year-old town house into a museum for Lower Rhine Pottbäckerkeramik with Heimatstube , in Tönisberger Heimathefte, 2008
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Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 49.86 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 59.28" E.