House Tückmantel

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House Tückmantel

The Tückmantel house is a residential and commercial building in downtown Solingen . The four-story, tower-crowned corner house of historicism dates from 1892 and is one of the few buildings in the vicinity of Graf-Wilhelm-Platz that survived the heavy bombing raids in November 1944. The Tückmantel house has the official addresses at Am Neumarkt 1 and Kölner Straße 73, 75, 77 and has been a listed building since 1993 . After the last restoration , it received the Solingen Monument Protection Prize in 2012.

history

Early years up to the Second World War

The Solingen tradesman Julius Tückmantel (1824–1898) acquired from Gustav Weyersberg on November 1, 1883 an old, two-story half - timbered house called Im Platz , which was on the corner of today's Am Neumarkt and Kölner Strasse. Tückmantel rented it out until he had the opportunity to build a new house there. This was the case in 1891 and in April of that year he had the old house removed. In April 1892 , Tückmantel was able to move into the new building of his residential and commercial building with his own apartment and his stationery store Zur golden Feder . The bookbinding shop belonging to the business had been in a newly built factory building on the corner of Bergstrasse and Friedrichstrasse since 1889. After Tückmantel's sons, Paul and Richard, joined the business in 1894, the business was renamed Julius Tückmantel & Sons . Julius Tückmantel died in 1898.

After Richard Tückmantel became so seriously ill in 1899 that he had to retire from professional life, the company was split up and managing director was appointed to the bookbinding division. In 1907 Paul Tückmantel (1867–1939) became the sole owner of the business, in 1910 his brother Richard died. Paul Tückmantel acquired his shares in 1918. In 1912 he had an extension built behind his and the neighboring house. He remained the sole owner of the business until 1939. He bequeathed the company to his son A. Werner Tückmantel, his daughter Margarethe, widowed Elsen and her husband Kurt Böhler.

On January 30, 1937, the square in front of the Tückmantel house was given the name Graf-Wilhelm-Platz. The house was given the new house numbers Graf-Wilhelm-Platz 1–3.

Post-war until today

During the Second World War , the bombing raids on November 4th and 5th, 1944 , were mainly responsible for the almost complete destruction of Solingen's old town . The extent of the destruction was enormous: only a few houses on the triangle were still standing, although these too had holes in the roofs and walls and broken window panes due to the force of the detonations. This also applies to the Tückmantelhaus, inside of which there was a bomb that had not exploded. Explosives were often used to remove the ruins, including the attempted removal of the Idelberger house in the vicinity of the Tückmantelhaus. When the Idelbergerhaus was blown up, the Tückmantel house would have been blown up at the same time, as it had repeatedly stood in the way of road conversion plans in the past. But Paul Tückmantel's widow was able to prevent this and the house, together with the neighboring Quabeck, remained standing.

A reconstruction was still a long time coming. The city had forbidden to repair its own houses again until the question of whether the city center should not be rebuilt in another location had been clarified. It was not until 1948 that the decision was made to rebuild it at the old location. The operation of the Tückmantels business had to be resumed at a different location because of the serious damage. Graf-Wilhelm-Platz became an official part of the address and the Tückmantelhaus was back on Kölner Strasse. The roof of the Tückmantelhaus was first renewed before the facade was also reconstructed. In 1950 the stationery shop moved back to the old premises in the Tückmantel house.

On November 22, 1993, it was entered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Solingen .

Shortly after the 150th anniversary of Julius Tückmantel & Sons , the company went bankrupt in 2002. The Tückmantelhaus came into the possession of the Solingen industrialist Siegfried Lapawa, who agreed to restore the building, including the turret that had been destroyed in the war, to its pre-war state. Lapawa invested around 6.5 million euros in the building, and the gap to the outbuilding on Neumarkt was closed with a new building. The construction work was finished in summer 2011.

In 2012 the Tückmantelhaus received the Solingen Monument Protection Prize retrospectively for 2011, which is awarded by the Solingen department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein .

literature

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Beate Battenfeld: Platzgeschichte, Neumarkt and Graf-Wilhelm-Platz in Solingen , Bergischer Geschichtsverein Abt. Solingen, Solingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-925626-30-2
  2. ↑ Solingen Monument List ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . City of Solingen, July 1, 2015, accessed on August 10, 2015 (PDF, size: 129 kB).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  3. ^ Siegfried Lapawa receives monument award , Solinger Morgenpost dated February 7, 2012, accessed on March 29, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 13.4 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 57.6"  E