Friedrich-Engels-Allee 281
The property at Friedrich-Engels-Allee 281 is a residential and commercial building in what is now the Barmen district of Wuppertal . It is one of the early historical buildings on Friedrich-Engels-Allee in Unterbarmen and was built by the bandmaker Colsmann at the beginning of the 19th century. The building is also known as the former Historical Cinematographic Museum or Museum Gonnermann .
description
The two-story house was from 1805 to 1825 in framework construction built and is at around 11.3 meters long west gable verschiefert . The 14.3 meter long front side facing the street, the south side of the building, is also slated on the six-axis upper floor. In the past, the ground floor on the front side was expanded into shops and had two large windows to the side of the central entrance to the business premises. The previously existing two-flight flight of stairs with a platform was removed. Underneath a narrow canopy, wide awnings are now attached over the shop windows. The remaining facade in the area of the first floor had black tiling. The east gable is plastered and was nearly complete late 2000s with ivy planted . On the upper floor there is a window on the left with a shutter and historical flat glass that has been preserved. The west gable had a centrally located window on the upper floor and a window front installed on the ground floor, which is mostly used as a glass showcase for the presentation of goods. The slate is pulled down over these windows like a roof, giving the impression of a bay window .
The hipped roof has a sporting side gable in classical style preserved. The side of the courtyard, which shows the compartment , was designed in the typical Bergisch style with a dwarf house with a gable roof . Here at the courtyard there is another entrance to the house and an entrance to the cellar vault. The top floor has two windows on the west gable and one window on the east gable.
Access to the courtyard is made possible in the west through a two-winged wrought-iron gate with vertical lance bars. This gate is flanked by cast iron pillars, in the form of elaborately decorated and fluted columns with a ball and spike at the end.
A laterally lying approximately 14.4 meters long and 5.3 meters wide Hofanbau ( 51 ° 15 '51.9 " N , 7 ° 10' 51.5" O ) with a smooth wall plaster and pent roof built subsequently 1898th A bakery with a shop was operated there on the ground floor. The four-axis, 9.3-meter-long part of the building with the bakery was built on two floors and the connecting part on one floor. Above the connecting part there was a veranda with a balustrade , the veranda was built over at a later time, so that the courtyard extension is now completely two-storey. The upper floor of the bakery was used as a storage room; in the past, access was made possible by an external, no longer existing flight of stairs on the north side. The former blind windows on the upper floor were broken through during the renovation in the 2000s and replaced by arched windows . This construction measure was carried out in coordination with the Lower Monument Authority , as they were marked as windows in the historical building plan. However, it was not possible to conclusively clarify whether the windows were actually implemented and only later replaced by blind windows or whether they were implemented directly as blind windows.
For building complex has not the two-storey house Friedrich-Engels-Allee 281a ( 51 ° 15 '52.2 " N , 7 ° 10' 50.7" O ), the gable is oriented towards the south in the yard. The 10.9 m wide and 15.0 m long brick house with a flat saddle roof in the classicist style is designed with three axes, with a suggested central projectile in which the entrance is located. There are weakly profiled stucco work above the arched windows.
history
Checkered history
The building on today's main thoroughfare, Friedrich-Engels-Allee, which was then simply and simply called “Allee”, was originally located directly on the Kothener Bach . The brook flowed past the west gable, then over a trout pond in the courtyard area it flowed into the Wupper . The Kothener Bach is now piped around ninety meters further west of the Wupper.
Across the stream, about ten meters from the west gable and in the same building line, stood the gable facade of the interim church, which was made of a plastered half-timbered structure . This was bought in Neviges in 1821 for 1400 thalers , dismantled there and rebuilt on the neighboring property. This church was later converted into a two-story residential building. The house was hit by aerial bombs in the air raid on Barmen in 1943 and burned down.
The house at Friedrich-Engels-Allee 281 has had various uses over the years; it served as a metal goods factory, shoe shop, laundry and watch factory. From the 1920s the house was known as the Gonnermann drugstore . The owner Theodor Gonnermann encouraged his son Manfred to learn the trade as a druggist. The family made it possible for Manfred Gonnermann to complete further training, so that he became a Dipl.-Ing. In 1958, a photo shop opened next to the drugstore , and the architect Felix Dahmen accompanied the renovation of the shop and the change in the shop window front.
The house at Friedrich-Engels-Allee 281a was built as a bookbinding workshop .
Historical Cinematographic Museum
Manfred Gonnermann found his hobby not only in photography , but also in film. In meticulous detail, he has built up a constantly growing collection that included several gems from film history . So it happened that on May 3, 1986, he officially opened the Historical Cinematographic Museum (sometimes also called Museum Gonnermann). This private museum attracted not only the attention of cinema fans, but was also visited by personalities from political life and was filmed by television crews.
The restored vaulted cellar, to which a narrow staircase leads down, was integrated into the museum. The room on the upper floor was also prepared for the collection in 1990/91 in order to gain more exhibition space. Countless old cameras and accessories, a historic Billet Box , historic microphones, a cutting table and projectors were presented. The M3 cinema projector from Bauer was the jewel on the ground floor. Another special feature was the one-sided grooved shellac record on which the music for the films was played. Gonnermann counted a 70-year-old Arriflex among his favorite pieces, which he exhibited on the upper floor. Many objects were displayed in the showcases that were already in his father's drugstore at the time. The imposing projectors weighed up to a ton.
monument
Despite the changes on the ground floor, the property is an indispensable part of the first historical development on Friedrich-Engels-Allee and a testimony to the history of Barmen, as judged by the Lower Monument Authority. On February 27, 1987, the house with the side courtyard extension built in 1898 and the wrought-iron entrance gate to the courtyard was included in the city's list of monuments as a monument. However, the protected status does not currently include the Friedrich-Engels-Allee 281a building.
It was thus saved from the threat of demolition for years and did not follow the fate of the Schornstein House (formerly Friedrich-Engels-Allee 289), which was laid down in 1975 and was built in a similar style. Because Friedrich-Engels-Allee was to be widened to 35 meters in the course of the multi-lane expansion of the valley axis that began after the Second World War. So it was decided for the Gonnermann house after the council decision of October 31, 1978 that it should be moved back to the new northern escape line . It is thanks to the protection of the Gonnermanns' house that the historic street of the part of Friedrich-Engels-Allee from Gonnermann's house to the Pauluskirche in the west was preserved.
The time after the museum
With the death of Manfred Gonnermann, the museum also came to an end, and the family did not run the photo business for long. The cinematographic collection was sold to Prague ( Czech Republic ) by the heirs ; details of the further whereabouts of the exhibits are not known.
A fashion shop owned by the Gonnermann family in this house did not last, and this was followed by a shop for ink cartridges.
Todays use
As a typical example of the Bergische half-timbered construction, the building was bought together with the house Friedrich-Engels-Allee 281a in 2003 by a school principal, who has been extensively refurbishing the building ensemble since then.
The shops are now rented to a florist and an antique dealer . Other rooms were also occasionally rented out.
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Individual evidence
- ↑ A ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2005 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. B ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2005 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. , Photos still with the lettering "Gonnermann"
- ↑ Kinematographisches Museum (Wuppertal) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. obsolete entry to the museum
- ↑ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Architects, civil engineers, master builders, property developers and their buildings in Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-928441-52-3
- ^ Photo Gonnermann ( Memento from February 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) obsolete entry on the museum
- ^ Museum Gonnermann obsolete entry on wupperguide.de
- ↑ a b c Michael Metschies, Rolf Löckmann: Endangered- rescued- lost, fates Wuppertaler built 1982, ISBN 3-87093-031-4
- ^ Gabriele Gonnermann , Mode and Modeaccessoires Wuppertal; Accessed April 2009
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 51.4 " N , 7 ° 10 ′ 51.6" E