House Reiss

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House Reiss

The house Reiss is a Grade II listed 19th-century villa in Bad Soden am Taunus .

history

The Reiss house was built in 1839 as a late classical palace for the Frankfurt merchant and patron Enoch Reiss (1802–1865) as a summer residence, because he felt relief from his asthma in the Taunus . A separate library building built later to accommodate the Reiss private library was originally connected to the main building by a corridor, but has not been preserved. The important holdings of the Reiss Library are now in the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main . The spacious property Zum Quellenpark 8 was temporarily left by the Reiss family to the Duchess Pauline von Nassau in 1841, who decided to build the Paulinenschlösschen (1847) in Bad Soden as her own summer residence. Enoch Reiss also left his house for the summer to Grand Duchess Sophie Wilhelmine von Baden in 1843.

In 1865 the Reiss house came to Enoch's youngest son, the Frankfurt judicial advisor Paul Reiss († 1926), who in turn bequeathed it to his son Adolf Reiss (1877–1962). Adolf Reiss was a managing board member of the Central Office for Private Welfare in Frankfurt until 1933 , which goes back to a Jewish welfare initiative led by the Frankfurt entrepreneur Wilhelm Merton . In the years to come, Haus Reiss became a place of refuge for Jewish citizens in distress. The house and library were badly damaged in an air raid in 1941, but at least the house was soon made habitable again. The library building was repaired a little later. Adolf Reiss became an honorary citizen of Bad Soden am Taunus in 1952 , just like his father and grandfather before him.

Since Adolf Reiss himself was unmarried and childless, he bequeathed the Reiss house to the city of Bad Soden with his death in 1962 and last willed that the house should serve non-profit, social and cultural purposes. The city of Bad Soden had the library house torn down and created a parking lot at this point. The Reiss house was sold by the city of Soden am Taunus in 1999 and then renovated. The ornamental cast iron railing on the windows of the upper floor was restored during the renovation. Part of the garden with some tall and old trees has also been preserved.

Individual evidence

  1. Article “ Traces of Jewish life in the Main-Taunus-Kreis ” on the website of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in the Main-Taunus-Kreis e. V.

literature

  • Joachim Kromer: The Reiss family in Soden.
  • Erika Ullrich, Edith Vetter: Where Soden's spa guests stayed. Bad Soden 2005, pp. 137-140, ISBN 3833422505 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Reiss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 38.8 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 59.4 ″  E