House Gutenberg (Bad Honnef)

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House Gutenberg (2014)

The Gutenberg House is a residential and commercial building in Bad Honnef , a city in North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , which was built 1904th It is located in the city center on the west side of the main street (number 40). The house can be the Art Nouveau crystallized and stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The house was built for the client Karl Werber, a bookseller, based on a design by the local architecture firm Stein & Happ on the newly parceled property of the former Lohhof (Hauptstrasse 38-40), which was last owned by the Dell Hotel. After the old building was demolished, the building permit was granted in August 1904 . The bookseller set up his own printing shop in the rear part of the property. The house was also the business headquarters of the Honnefer Volkszeitung run by the Werber family , the formerly the smallest regional newspaper in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was discontinued in 2002. In the third generation, Karl Günter Werber ran the bookstore in his parents' house from 1972. In 2012 he gave it up and sold the house.

In autumn 2013, after the renovation was completed, a local history museum, an archive with library and a meeting point for events were opened in the house, which is sponsored by a newly founded association. The first floor still houses the original bookstore.

Web links

Commons : Haus Gutenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 96
  2. ^ State Conservator Rhineland: Bad Honnef - Urban Development and Urban Structure. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0414-5 , p. 127.
  3. ^ Erwin Bidder: Back to the roots ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . In: rheinkiesel. Magazine for Rhine and Siebengebirge , 17th volume, December 2013, p. 4/5.
  4. ↑ Local history and history association “Herrschaft Löwenburg” e. V. (Ed.): 150 Years of the City of Bad Honnef , Niederhofen 2012, ISBN 978-3-936256-50-5 .
  5. ↑ Renate Mahnke sets up an archive for Bad Honnef , General-Anzeiger , April 17, 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 44.5 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 31.3 ″  E