House Lindwurmstrasse 205 (Munich)

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Lindwurmstrasse 205 in Munich

The house at Lindwurmstraße 205 is a historic building in Munich that is a listed building. The Jewish history of the house is particularly remembered in the form of stumbling blocks , memorial events and exhibitions.

Architecture and equipment

The building was built between 1897 and 1899 in the style of the German Renaissance . According to the list of monuments, Rosa Barbist was the architect.

The corner building has a striking oriel tower on the corner of Lindwurmstrasse / Daiserstrasse, which ends with a French dome . At the Daiserstraße it has a facade dominant Zwerchhaus . The building, designed as a tenement house, was made of brick with ashlar elements.

The planning and construction was carried out by the structural engineering office Rosa Barbist . It was "very unusual" in the 19th century for an architecture office to be run by a woman. Women were not allowed to study architecture in Bavaria until 1903. Rosa Barbist's architectural office built a total of 54 large rental buildings in Munich between 1895 and 1908, some of which are still preserved and are listed.

On November 10, 2014, the building received the Facade Prize of the City of Munich for the exemplary renovation of the facades . The ground floor with its 4.50 meter high stucco ceiling and granite pillars, which once housed Gutmann's Jewish department store for leather goods , was also restored and converted into a restaurant.

History of the house

Around 1900 the Gasthaus Frohsinn was on the ground floor of the house at Lindwurmstrasse 205 . The Jewish couple Gutmann bought the house around 1910; In 1912 they opened the Gutmann department store there.

Gutmann was in November 1938 in the wake of Kristallnacht in the Dachau concentration camp deported. Previously, he was forced to give up ownership of the building and the department store. The house went to the Carl Sattler property management administration, from which Josef Rauch from Plattling acquired the building. Then the company "Textilwaren Albert Helfferich" moved into the ground floor.

Emanuel Gutmann came - according to an affidavit of a witness - "from there [the Dachau concentration camp] terminally ill [...]." After his return from the Dachau concentration camp, the Gutmanns moved to the Jewish retirement home on Kaulbachstrasse , from where they left in June 1942 were brought to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Emanuel Gutman died on October 24, 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp; Sofie Gutmann died on October 11, 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Refund procedures by the heirs and survivors of the family - Sophie Marx's sister Therese Klugmann (1874–1966) and Sophie Marx's brother Benno Marx (1883–1968) - have not been researched or are known. Other beneficiaries such as Sophie Marx's brother Louis Marx (1873–1943) and sister Carolene / Karoline Mayer perished in the Shoah .

In 1979 a drugstore rented the first floor of the house and stayed there until 2010. After that, an Asian bar was to be found there. In the course of the renovation, the original architectural furnishings of the shop were restored. In September 2013, another restaurant was set up there.

Stumbling blocks

During the renovation of the building, the owners discovered the note "Owner: the Jew Gutmann" in the building files of the house. This gave the impetus to investigate the previous owner of the house, and on April 18, 2013, Gunter Demnig finally found two stumbling blocks for Sofie Gutmann nee in front of the house entrance. Marx and her husband Emanuel set. The two stumbling blocks were the 13th and the 14th stumbling block in Sendling. Like the other Munich stumbling blocks, they had to be relocated on private property, as the city of Munich is “against the stumbling block campaign” and in 2004 the laying of stumbling blocks on public property in Munich was prohibited. On the occasion of the laying of the stones for the Gutmann couple, Florian von Brunn asked the Munich city council to reconsider the 2004 decision.

The stumbling blocks for the Gutmann couple are still among the "few stumbling blocks" in Munich.

On November 10, 2013, a memorial event was held in front of the building on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the pogrom night. A “reading of the story of SOFIE & EMANUEL GUTMANN” took place.

The initiative “Historical Learning Locations Sendling”, founded in 2004, which is dedicated to researching the Biographical Memorial Book of Munich Jews (Munich City Archives), wanted to show the history of the Gutmann family in an exhibition in 2014.

  • Facade to Daiserstraße

  • Granite column

  • Granite column, capital

  • Stumbling stone for Sofie Gutmann, geb. Marx

  • Stumbling block for Emanuel Gutmann

Web links

Commons : Lindwurmstrasse 205 (Munich)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c List of monuments in Munich of the State Office for Monument Protection, files No. D-1-62-000-4007 (PDF)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Brief history of the house at Lindwurmstrasse 205 on cbf-muenchen.de
  3. ↑ Prize winners 2013 - These are Munich's most beautiful facades on www.muenchen.de
  4. ↑ Emanuel Gutmann was a businessman in Munich and was born on December 29, 1873 in Gemmingen. His wife Sofie Marx was born on May 16, 1878 as the sixth child of Elias / Emil (1838–1914) (see data from Elias and Fanny Marx née Ottenheimer on steinheim-Institut.de, data from Fanny Marx née Ottenheimer on ancestry .de, parents and children of Elias Marx on ancestry.de) and Fanny / Frumet Marx (1842–1925) geb. Ottenheimer was born in Heilbronn (cf. 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 (= publications of the Heilbronn Archives. Issue 11), OCLC 600889368 , p. 137, 286, 308, 347, 348, 358, 363).
  5. ↑ Historical places of learning Sendling ; Event information Sun 10 November 2013 at 2 p.m. on sendlinger-kulturschmiede.de
  6. ↑ a b Biographical data and photographs of Sofie & Emanuel Gutmann ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at www.stolpersteine-muenchen.de
  7. ↑ Remembering - and learning for the future: November 9, 1938 “Reichskristallnacht”. The evocation of the “people's anger” life data and photographs by Sofie & Emanuel Gutmann on sendlinger-kulturschmiede.de
  8. ↑ Data on Sofie Gutmann geb. Marx on Bundesarchiv.de
  9. ↑ Data on Sofie Gutmann geb. Marx on ancestry.de
  10. ↑ Data from Aron and Therese Klugmann geb. Marx on gda.bayern.de State Archive Munich
  11. ↑ Data from Frida Marx on steinheim-Institut.de, Benno Marx on ancestry.de, Benno Marx on ancestry.de
  12. ↑ Data from Louis and Hannchen Marx geb. Rothschild at www.steinheim-institut.de.
  13. ↑ Data from Louis Marx (Sobibor concentration camp) on db.yadvashem.org.
  14. ^ Data from Ludwig Marx on Bundesarchiv.de
  15. ^ Data from Louis Marx on ancestry.de
  16. ↑ Data on Caroline Marx on ancestry.de, virtual exhibition> NS-Zeit (1933-1945)> Terror> Die Opfer des Terrors → Karoline Marx ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on stadtgeschichte-Heilbronn.de
  17. ^ Action in Sendling. New discussion about stumbling blocks on abendzeitung-muenchen.de
  18. ↑ Gunter Demnig relocates two stumbling blocks. ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  19. ↑ Complicated commemoration on whatthemuc.wordpress.com
  20. ↑ Historical places of learning Sendling ; Event information Sun 10 November 2013 at 2 p.m. on sendlinger-kulturschmiede.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 19 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 37.2 ″  E