House Schneidhausen
The house Schneidhausen is a mansion in Schneidhausen , a hamlet of Kreuzau in the district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Rur .
history
The building complex located close to the Kreuzau mill pond was built in 1743 by Leonhard Hoesch (1684–1761), initially Reidemeister on the Neuenhammer in the Stolberg district of Vicht , now owner of a steelworks in Schneidhausen, as a representative house with an attached iron cutting mill made of quarry stone . On September 14, 1742, Hoesch had received the concession for this factory from the court chamber in Düsseldorf . From 1716 he was married to Elisabeth Schoeller (1698–1778), daughter of the Gemünder ironworks owner Johann Peter Schoeller (1671–1753). The buttons of the iron anchors from House Schneidhausen still show the year of construction and the initials of the owner couple.
The name Schneidhausen is probably an invention of the client Leonhard Hoesch. It can be derived from the iron grinder. After the Schneidhausen House originally only served the iron industry, Hugo Ludolf Hoesch (1727–1790), Leonhard's son, expanded the building complex with a paper and oil mill . In this way the abundant hydropower should be used. The license for both mills was granted on March 17, 1770.
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After Hugo Ludolf Hoesch's death in 1790, the house Schneidmühle went to the sons Eberhard Hoesch (1756-1811), who was nicknamed "von Schneidhausen", and Jeremias Ludolf Hoesch (1774-1842). These sons founded the two branches of the Düren Hoesch line. Both Jeremias and Eberhard Hoesch lived in Schneidhausen. Since the old headquarters of the Hoeschs could not accommodate two families, a new apartment had to be built.
In 1819 the ownership shares were redistributed and Eberhard's sons Eberhard, junior (1790–1852) and Wilhelm Hoesch (1791–1831) remained together as "Gebrüder Eberhard and Wilhelm Hoesch" at Schneidhausen, whereas their older brother Ludolf Matthias Hoesch (1788– 1859) received the more highly rated paper mill in Krauthausen and built up a flourishing paper industry there.
On October 1, 1846, the company name was changed to "Eberhard Hoesch and Sons" after Wilhelm had died early. Between 1845 and 1847 the Hoesch family switched from paper to zinc production. A zinc rolling mill was set up in the Schneidhausen house at this time . The right half served as a factory, the left as a residential building.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the entire building complex was prepared for factory purposes. Today's Hoesch Metall- und Kunststoffwerk bathtub factory emerged from the ironworks and is one of the largest bathtub manufacturers in Europe.
Today House Schneidhausen serves as a tenement house. After the division of the company “Eberhard Hoesch and Sons” in 1972, the owner of the building is the company “Hoesch Metall- und Kunststoffwerk” in Schneidhausen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History HOESCH. HOESCH, accessed on August 4, 2017 .
Web links
- Photo of the mansion
- Entry on the Hoesch plant in Schneidhausen in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 8.3 " N , 6 ° 28 ′ 52.3" E