House Wagner
House Wagner , a monument in Langenfeld (Rhineland) , once housed the restaurant of the "Hochfürstlich Thurn und Taxis ' s post office ". Today, the History restaurant , formerly Krügers, is home to upscale gastronomy.
description
The house was built around 1790 as a two-story brick building with a half-hip roof . A round stair tower with a helmet attachment is attached to the southwest corner . To the north there is a triangular, flat dormer in the middle . To the left and in the courtyard side extensions one is gastronomic operating housed, the right side and the first floor are for residential use.
location
The building is located across from Berliner Platz in Langenfeld-Mitte , exactly at the intersection of the former Via Publica , the future Cologne-Arnheimer Chaussee and today's B 8 , and the second important long-distance trade route , the Provincial Road Elberfeld – Hitdorf . The latter is congruent with today's B 229 for a long distance . From a regional point of view, the main road , coming from Hitdorf in the southwest, leads northeast to Richrath and Hilden , but as Solinger Strasse turns eastwards in Immigrath to Solingen and Wuppertal . In the north of the former Via Publica are Berghausen and Düsseldorf , in the south Opladen , Leverkusen and Cologne . Via Schulstrasse , which branches off at Berliner Platz , one arrives at Talstrasse , once part of the oldest connection through the Rhineland , the mouse path .
Building history
The house, built around 1790, served from 1793 as an inn for travelers and postillons of the former Cölln - Düsseldorf middle station of the "Hochfürstlich Thurn und Taxis'schen Posthalterei". Hermann Braches and his brother-in-law Johann Peter Lungstraß were the first post keepers and thus also the first innkeepers . The latter later even became the “ imperial post holder ” and at the same time mayor of the community . In front of the house there was a barrier called a turnpike , which is why the house was also called the Barrier Inn in the mid-19th century . The post office itself was not, however, in the Wagner house, as is often assumed, but in a building on the opposite side of the street, the Löwenberg house on today's Berliner Platz .
In the post office there, up to 24 postillons did their service on four post lines . Up to 96 horses stood in the coach houses . Every postillon of the carriage mail , there were also mail riders , looked after a train with four horses of the same color. From 1806 until 1885 (Müller mentions 1808–1887) the town hall , first of the "Munizipalität Richrath", then the "Gesamtgemeinde Richrath- Monheim " was housed in the Wagner house. Mayor from 1821 to 1849 was Johann Hubert Rosellen .
Miscellaneous
- In 1879 Dr. med Meunier from Hitdorf set up a first medical practice for the poor in Langenfeld. This rewarded the efforts of the community, which had been trying to find a doctor since 1849.
- The establishment of a workers 'and soldiers' council at the innkeeper Neuss of the Wagner house on November 9, 1918 was short-lived . English occupation troops closed these chapters again on December 15, 1918.
- In mid-August 1946, the local association of the FDP was founded in the Wagner house .
The Volksgarten
The Volksgarten with its 5000 m² area was once part of the post office. While the horses were exchanged, the travelers could relax in the garden . Up until 1870, the garden had been the property of the Postholders - the Lungstraß family - for three generations . Subsequently, the park together with the building of the former post office and the post garden (located at the Villa Berger ) belonged to different owners who used the former post office building partly for industrial purposes. At that time the park was also called Löwenberg'schen Park . Friedrich Kreusch , mayor of the municipality of Richrath-Reusrath, finally acquired the entire site in 1927 for the municipality . This enabled him to implement his plan to create a center for the community ( Langenfeld-Mitte , the old center of the city). In 1928 the entire park area was replanted and given to the public as a recreational area. Since 2008 the Kotten of the shell cutter Wilhelm Jacobs has been rebuilt there in a glazed exhibition hall and is open to the public .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Environmental Protection and Beautification Association Langenfeld eV, A guide through the built history of Langenfeld
- ^ A b c d e Rolf Müller: " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
- ^ Friedhelm Görgens: Langenfeld 2 , Droste, Düsseldorf 1994
- ↑ Claus-Peter Peters, " Langenfeld im Wandel der Zeiten ", self-published 2013
Web links
- Lower monument authority of the city of Langenfeld ( Memento from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- List of monuments
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 7.2 " N , 6 ° 56 ′ 48.3" E