Dreyer House

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Dreyer House

The Dreyer house (also Landhaus Dreyer ) was a listed former manor house in the Wuppertal district of Uellendahl-Katernberg (Vogelsangstrasse 159) on the edge of the Mirker Hain .

The two-storey, half-timbered residential building with a gable roof on a base was built as a farmhouse. The house entrance, which had a skylight , was located in the middle of the eaves facade and was accessible via three steps. The original building only extended to the field to the right of the entrance, the three fields to the east of it were a later extension.

In a fire on June 20, 2014, the listed half-timbered house with the popular restaurant was completely destroyed. The fire brigade could no longer save the house, according to the then 64-year-old owner Christa Espenlaub.

history

The manor house for the Dreyer family was built around 1675. In 1902 Richard Dreyer received permission from the then independent town of Elberfeld to run a pub , for which larger extensions were added in the west and north.

In 1972 the property was acquired by the Wuppertal property developer and restaurateur Arnold Beneke, who ran a trendy restaurant there for many years. He added two extensions to the house. The property was initially leased at the end of the 1990s. From 2001 until the fire in 2014, Beneke's wife Christa Espenlaub (daughter of aviation pioneer Gottlob Espenlaub ) ran the catering business on her own.

On September 17, 1990, the original manor house was placed under monument protection as a rare example of the early Bergisch half-timbered construction.

On the morning of June 20, 2014, a fire broke out on the first floor of the house and spread to the roof truss. According to the fire brigade's first statements, the house has been destroyed and in danger of collapsing. On June 24th, a defect in the sauna area on the first floor was discovered by the criminal police as the trigger for the tape. The legal dispute over the settlement of the damage dragged on until March 2020. The owner had agreed to a settlement with the insurance company. Now, following the comparison, the fire ruins are to be put down.

Web links

Commons : Haus Dreyer  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
  • Gem of Gemütlichkeit , In: Bergische Wirtschaft, 2006, issue 6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Website http://www.landhaus-dreyer.de/
  2. ↑ Fire destroys Landhaus Dreyer Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from June 20, 2014
  3. ↑ Landhaus Dreyer: The day after the fire Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) of June 22, 2014
  4. ↑ A defect triggered the fire in Landhaus Dreyer from Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from June 24, 2014
  5. ↑ Checking: demolition of Landhaus Dreyer is still unclear. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. August 16, 2014, accessed May 17, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Manfred Bube: Former Dreyer country house: settlement closed, future uncertain. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on April 1, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 23.2 ″  E