House Fleiner Strasse 1 (Heilbronn)

The house at Fleiner Straße 1 in Heilbronn was the Villa Goppel , built according to a design by Karl Ludwig von Zanth , also known as the Brown House from 1933 . On the site of the house destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944 , an eight-story commercial building was built in 1964 according to plans by Otmar Schär .

history

Pre-war construction

Villa Goppel around 1836

Villa Goppel around 1904 (front left)

In 1835/1836 Adolf Goppel had the building built as a residential and commercial building. The building was built according to designs by Karl Ludwig von Zanth and decorated with paintings in the Pompeian style. In the house was also the headquarters of the trading house Goppel, a colonial goods and wine wholesaler that had been founded in 1747 by Johann Gottfried Goppel (1718–1779). On April 30, 1846, a lovers' theater with a prologue by David Friedrich Strauss was opened in the building. From 1933 the center of the NSDAP in Heilbronn was located in the house, which was then known as the Brown House with district management, training courses, NS library and bookstore. Nazi opponents, particularly Jews from Heilbronn, were tortured in the cellars of the house. Tekla Sänger described what was going on in the cellars of the Brown House in a letter :

“ An acquaintance on Weststrasse was taken out of bed at 5 a.m. and was in custody for a week without giving any reason. He was then back home for a few days when he was called to come to the Brown House immediately, which he did. Here he first had to sign that nothing had ever happened to him. Then six uniformed Nazis dragged him into the basement, where he had to strip naked, and they all beat him with steel rods. They did the same with the brother of Schneider Heule von Lehrensteinsfeld ... These two have been in hospital for four weeks now, on their faces because their backs are so badly damaged that they cannot be placed any other way. "

- Thekla Keller

At the beginning of the Second World War, a warning center was set up in the cellars of Goppel's house. Remnants of the former warning center were still there after the war.

The villa was one of the most important works by prominent foreign artists who were active in Heilbronn:

“ The historicism of the 19th century. is also characterized in the Unterland by the fact that prominent foreign artists have received significant commissions [...] from Zanth the Goppelsche Haus in Fleiner Straße with paintings in the Pompeian style [...] "

Post-war construction

In 1964 an eight-storey commercial building was built according to plans by Otmar Schär. At 25 meters high, the house was one of the “tallest structures in Heilbronn city center”. In the new building, the still existing bunker of the Brown House with its heavy iron doors and thick walls was designed as a storage room. Since the house stands on the former moat, a heavy reinforced concrete slab had to be used as the foundation. The electrical wholesaler Erich Weber, on July 1, 1948 in Schmidbergstr. 25, was taken over on July 1, 1958 by Elektro-Ziegler, who also had the new building built.

Individual evidence

↑ Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach: "... for your account and risk". Invoices and letterheads from Heilbronn companies . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-928990-48-9 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives . Volume 30), p. 48.
↑ Uwe Jacobi: The missing council minutes . 3. Edition. Verlag Heilbronner Demokratie, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-921923-09-3 . P. 25
↑ Hans Franke: History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn - From the Middle Ages to the Time of the National Socialist Persecution (1050-1945) , Heilbronn 1963 (also as PDF , 1.2 MB) [in the register on p. 380 NSDAP and SA: Braunes House p. 114, 241]
↑ mahnung-gegen-rechts.de: What people can do ( Memento from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
^ Wilhelm Steinhilber: Heilbronn. The hardest hours in town. Verlag Heilbronner Demokratie, Heilbronn 1961, p. 22: The warning center was in the cellar of the Goppel house at Fleiner Straße 1. P. 23: Below: The remains of the former warning center.
^ Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , p. 17. (Historicism).
^ Jac: A striking building in the center of Heilbronn. Eight-story new building for the electrical wholesaler Erich Weber was opened / 25 meters high. In: Heilbronn voice . No. 241 , October 17, 1964, pp. 10 .

Web links

Commons : Fleiner Straße 1 (Heilbronn) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Villa Goppel around 1836 on stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de

49.139181 9.218991Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '21.1 " N , 9 ° 13' 8.4" E

[1] Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach: "... for your account and risk". Invoices and letterheads from Heilbronn companies . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1994, ISBN 3-928990-48-9 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives . Volume 30), p. 48.

[2] Uwe Jacobi: The missing council minutes . 3. Edition. Verlag Heilbronner Demokratie, Heilbronn 1995, ISBN 3-921923-09-3 . P. 25

[3] Hans Franke: History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn - From the Middle Ages to the Time of the National Socialist Persecution (1050-1945) , Heilbronn 1963 (also as PDF , 1.2 MB) [in the register on p. 380 NSDAP and SA: Braunes House p. 114, 241]

[4] ung-gegen-rechts.de: What people can do ( Memento from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[5] Wilhelm Steinhilber: Heilbronn. The hardest hours in town. Verlag Heilbronner Demokratie, Heilbronn 1961, p. 22: The warning center was in the cellar of the Goppel house at Fleiner Straße 1. P. 23: Below: The remains of the former warning center.

[6] Julius Fekete: Art and cultural monuments in the city and district of Heilbronn . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1662-2 , p. 17. (Historicism).

[7] Jac: A striking building in the center of Heilbronn. Eight-story new building for the electrical wholesaler Erich Weber was opened / 25 meters high. In: Heilbronn voice . No. 241 , October 17, 1964, pp. 10 .