House Bahnhofstrasse 11 (Nörvenich)
The house at Bahnhofstrasse 11 is the oldest house in Nörvenich in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
There is a blessing on the house carved into a beam. It reads:
JESVS MARIA IHS JOSEPH
I STAND IN GOD'S
HANDS GOD PROTECTS ME FROM FEWER VNT BRANT
PETRUS SCHRÖTELER VND
CECILIA ZVR HEIDEN EHELEVDH
ANNO 1723
Only the death dates of the couple named in the house motto can be found in the church records: Petrus Schrodeler died in 1755, his wife Cäcilia Zur Heiden in 1735. At the beginning of the 19th century, Michael Schmitz is named as the owner of the house. It went from him to Peter Müllermeister at an unknown point in time. He was born in Hochkirchen and moved to Nörvenich after his marriage to Clara Backeler.
The house remained in the possession of the Müllermeister family until the end of the 1980s. For four generations, the respective owners ran a small farm from here. The unmarried Kaspar Müllermeister, who died in 1977, last lived here. His brother Josef returned to his parents' house as a pensioner after living in Lower Saxony for decades . After his death, the homestead , which had been owned by the family for around 200 years, was sold. The house was acquired by the John G. Bodenstein family from the castle around 1985 in order to preserve the historical monument through private funding for the community to use as a local museum. It will initially be used as a residential building.
The street front of the house entered in the list of monuments has been changed several times. The front door has been moved one compartment to the left at an unknown point in time . This can be clearly seen on the door, the upper curve of which matches the lower edge of the motto. Around 1985 all windows were enlarged considerably. That was a massive encroachment on the monumental substance. At some point the house seems to have been extended to the right. The last four compartments on the right with the two windows disrupt the originally symmetrical structure of the half-timbered house front .
The house was entered on March 19, 1985 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Nörvenich under No. 44.
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 29.7 " N , 6 ° 38 ′ 38.3" E