House on the Bech
The "Haus auf der Bech" is also called "Haus op der Bech" or "Haus an der Bech". The house on the Bech is a listed secular building in Hilden Schwanenstrasse 17 in the Mettmann district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 7.2 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 53.2" E
The stately, eaves - standing half-timbered house was built in 1588 for a mayor . The upper floor protrudes on consoles . The half-hip roof has recently been put on. The building was restored from 1980 to 1982.
history
The older house
The archbishop's fief "Auf der Bech" was mentioned in a document in 1150.
The stately, eaves-standing half-timbered house in Hilden at Schwanenstrasse 17 "Haus auf der Bech" (older house) was built in 1588 for the mayor Dietrich zu den Hülsen. He died in 1589 before completion. After the death of the client, Schultheißen Dietrich zu den Hülsen, the house came into the possession of the Hoff family in 1590 through the quick remarriage of his widow "Gretchen zu den Hülsen". The second husband Heinrich Hoff was a notary and called himself Henricus Bech Hildensis. The couple took up residence in the newly built "home on the Bech" and opened an inn there. Around 1590 the farmers in Hilden turned against the appointment of innkeeper Heinrich Hoff to the Hilden court clerk, because their narrow purse did not allow them "if we had to write something, to sit in the wine house".
Gretchen's (Gertgen) son from his first marriage, Anton zu den Hülsen, who was born around 1575/76, renounced the “Haus auf der Bech” in 1596 in favor of his mother and stepfather Heinrich Hoff, whereupon they left him with the inheritance “zu den Hülsen” .
Hermann Hoff, the son of Heinrich Hoff's first marriage, born around 1588, was the next owner of the house on the Bech. During the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , despite the Duke's prohibition, he made his house available to the Reformed to hold church services. Since Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm tried with all means to eradicate the Reformation in his country, the house on the Bech was closed and sealed by official channels in 1641. The Reformed only had barns or open skies for their meetings. During the procession on Sunday to Jakobi (July 25, 1641) her anger erupted. The Reformed people broke the seal and lock and regained access to the "Haus auf der Bech". A political interplay followed. After Hermann's death (†?), His son Adolf Hoff, born around 1613, inherited the "Haus auf der Bech". He married Sibylla Eikels from Düsseldorf in 1640 and lived in Düsseldorf, but later moved to Hilden. From 1647 to 1675 he was mayor of Hilden and Haan. Adolf Hoff died in 1679. He left the older house to his son Heinrich Hoff, who was born in 1645.
The newer house
The last owner named Hoff was the clerk Heinrich Hoff. He and his wife Johanna Margaretha von Diepenbruch ufr Knip built the “newer half-timbered house on the Bech” after their marriage in 1680. After Heinrich Hoff's death, the half-timbered house fell to Heinrich's son-in-law. The son-in-law was the businessman Matthias Kohl (on the Kohlsberg in Höhscheid near Solingen), husband of Anna Sibylla Hoff. They leased the house several times from 1734–1760 to the Hilden family Heinrich Volmer and Anna Gertrud geb. Kirberg.
Oil and barley peeling mill
On April 29, 1762, Tilmann Kirberg received the concession from Elector Karl Theodor to operate an oil and barley peeling mill (Pellmühle) next door. The mill was powered by the Itter's water. Kirberg must have run the mill himself for a number of years, because in 1778 he took on a debt that he had paid by 1782. Tilmann Kirberg was married to Helena Vollmer. Johann Wilhelm Frauenhof bought the mill in 1820.
Wilhelm Frauenhof was born in 1829 as one of six children of Johann Wilhelm Frauenhof, married to Wilhelmine, nee Tang. After the death of Johann Wilhelm Frauenhof, Wilhelm Frauenhof took over the mill. Wilhelm Frauenhof is noted on the original cadastral map from 1839 as the owner of the property on which the mill stood. Wilhelm Frauenhof bequeathed the mill to his son Karl Wilhelm Frauenhof (* 1857), who also ran it. In 1915 the mill was shut down. The water wheel was demolished in the final years of the First World War . Since then it has fallen into disrepair, so that today only a few remains of the wall remain. The breakthrough hole is still visible in the ruin.
Tanning
Theodor Hugo Frauenhof, born in 1865, son of the oil miller Johann Wilhelm Frauenhof, founded a tanning and leather factory on August 28, 1887 on the grounds of his father's farm "Auf der Bech". When Theodor Hugo Frauenhof was unable to continue the business due to blindness, his nephew and son of the oil miller Karl-Wilhelm Frauenhof, Richard Frauenhof, took over the company in 1935. Due to a lack of demand from the shoe industry, production soon came to a standstill and Richard Frauenhof continued to run the company as a business for leather goods and shoemaker's supplies. After the end of the Second World War , the company's focus was shifted to technical wholesale for industrial needs.
Due to the annual flooding of the Itter, the couple Richard and Susanne Frauenhof built a flood-proof new building next to the building of the former mill, which they could move into in 1960.
The company Hugo Frauenhof GmbH Industriebedarf und Umwelttechnik relocated to a larger area on Mühlenbachweg in Hilden in 1998. The trade in shoemaker's supplies, which had been in operation for almost 70 years, was transferred to a competitor in 2013.
The half-timbered house
The oak half-timbered house "Haus auf der Bech" was the residential house of a rural homestead, which was one of the larger Hildens, with separately constructed farm buildings. Around 1900 it was clad in clapboard on the back.
After Richard Frauenhof's death in 1965, the Frauenhof family rented the half-timbered house to the city of Hilden on a long-term basis from 1971. The flood-proof half-timbered house (front building) carefully restored it from 1976 to 1979. In 2004, the city and private tenants carried out further extensive restoration measures under the supervision of the Lower Monument Authority. From 1979 to 2004, the Hilden-Haan Adult Education Center was at home in the “Haus op de Bech” . Between 1982 and 2004 the “Wohlauer Heimatstube” was also located in the building. The adult education center was followed by a law firm from 2007 to 2012. In 2013, the majority of the employees of the youth welfare office moved from the closed youth club JUECK on Heiligenstrasse to the “Haus auf der Bech”. A large weeping willow that had stood on the side of the half-timbered house for many decades fell victim to hurricane Jeanett in October 2002 and had to be felled. The area of the half-timbered house and the inner courtyard with the area of the shaft factory were divided in 2014 and the remaining factory buildings were demolished. A residential complex with 16 apartments was built at this point. The ruins of the old oil mill were spared.
literature
- Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Hilden, house on the Bech time track search
- ↑ a b Ulrike Unger, Michael Ebert: Dönekes und Heimatkunde, history and stories from Hilden , Rheinische Post, Museums- und Heimatverein Hilden eV, ISBN 3-9804615-2-1 , 1998, p. 10
- ↑ a b c d Michael Kremer: Investor wants to leave old mill on the Itter. Westdeutsche Zeitung , March 20, 2014, accessed on July 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Wennig: History of Hilden industry, from the beginnings of commercial activity by the year 1900 , City Archives Hilden 1974
- ↑ Wolfgang Wennig: Hilden yesterday and today , the city archives Hilden 1977
- ↑ Thomas Bernhardt, Werner Kimmel, Christina Görtz, Michael de Clerque, Andreas Stephainski, Roland Ermich: Time travel 1000 years of life in Hilden, 150 years of city rights , ISBN 978-3-9812527-9-8 , Göttingen 2011
- ↑ Hilden Statistical Yearbook 2016, page 22 , accessed on July 17, 2019
