Secret annexe to the pan

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The rear building of the pan in Judengasse (house number 188) in Frankfurt am Main was the residential and commercial building of the Rothschild family from 1664 . The building, first mentioned in 1552, was divided into a front and a rear building in 1559, in which over 30 people lived at times. Both buildings were rebuilt in 1601 and after the major fires of 1711 and 1721.

The area of ​​the rear building, which was at the northern end of Judengasse, was 3.40 by 10 m. Spread over three floors and an attic room , it offered around 120 square meters of floor space. It was reached from the street via a narrow corridor through the front building. The ground floor was used as an office . A large part of the merchandise was probably also stored here.

In 1664, Naphtali Herz Rothschild moved to the rear building of the pan. Little more is known than their names about its inhabitants before Amschel Moses Rothschild and his son Mayer Amschel Rothschild , the founder of the Rothschild dynasty. Amschel Moses Rothschild worked here as a money changer and occasionally traded in silk. From 1763 Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his brothers Moses and Kalmandas use the building, three quarters of which they share as a residential and commercial building. This led to extremely cramped living conditions. Mayer Amschel and his wife Gutle only moved into the Haus zum Grünen Schild in 1787 , which was generally considered to be the parent company of the Rothschild banking family. He sold his share of the Secret Annex to the pan for 3,300 guilders to his brother Moses, who thus became its sole owner.

On the night of July 13-14, 1796, the building burned down for the third time when French revolutionary troops under General Jean-Baptiste Kléber shot at Frankfurt from the top of the Friedberger Warte . During the reconstruction of the destroyed northern part of Judengasse, the old, cramped conditions were not reconstructed, but a more generous concept was pursued. That is why the building complex on the pan was not restored, but fundamentally redesigned. With that, the building and its name disappeared from the cityscape.

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Web links

  • Pan. In: Judengasse.de. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Working group Heimatmuseum Frankfurt am Main-Bergen-Enkheim e. V .: Johann Heinrich Usener, bailiff in Bergen - Chronick from the Bornheimerberg district started in 1796 . Historical records edited by Walter Reul. Self-published, Frankfurt 1998