House for the five rings
The House of the Five Rings was built around 1550 as an elaborate patrician house in Goch in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located between the Van den Bosch house and the Mosters house on Steinstrasse No. 1 in the immediate vicinity of the Goch market square. It is the only almost completely preserved house from the 16th century , although it was completely destroyed in the Second World War except for the outer walls in the inner core. The facade was somewhat preserved and the whole house was rebuilt after the Second World War with the available funds by the owner family Franz and Theodor Janßen (honorary citizens of the city of Kleve).
The building originally served as a noble town house. From 1828 there was initially a wine wholesaler in the basement. The brothers Peter and Anton Otten, who previously operated a brewery diagonally across the street on Steinstrasse, bought the house around 1850 and moved to the other side of the street in order to brew beer in the back of the building. This is how the brewery got its name: "Otten'sche Brewery to the Five Rings". In 1883 the brewer Theodor Janssen acquired the house and brewery and expanded the business further. Until the time before the Second World War, dark beer from the Lower Rhine was brewed in Steinstrasse by the Janßen family. After the war and the reconstruction, in addition to the activity as a beverage distributor, the production of lemonades and ice cream as well as the bottling of Tucher beers, which were delivered in bulk from Nuremberg, were resumed in the rooms.
It was only at this time that Franz Janßen gave the house its characteristic green, red and white wooden shutters on the entire facade. After Johannes Janßen, the son of Franz Janßen, had gradually expanded the beverage publisher from the beginning of the 1970s into a modern beverage wholesaler with a gastronomic focus, he was relocated to the industrial area West in Benzstrasse 23 in 1983, where it is still located today. Only one beverage pick-up market on the side of the house facing Gocher Wassergarten was still in operation until 2000 and was a reminder of the beer-related business at this point.
The house on the five rings is currently being extensively refurbished and renovated after it was sold by the Janßen family to the city of Goch as part of the reorganization of the Wassergarten / Balfourweg area and the new construction of the Goch town hall. Even before the renovation, it was considered to be one of the most beautiful town houses on the Lower Rhine and this shine is preserved even more through the construction work.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 34.05 " N , 6 ° 9 ′ 24.75" E