Hofeshaus Lütterkus-Heidt
The Hofeshaus Lütterkus-Heidt is probably the oldest preserved half-timbered house in Wuppertal - Barmen . In the southern part of Barmer it is considered to be the only structural testimony to the rural past that has survived after the residential development of the 19th century and the bombing of the Second World War . The Renaissance house was placed under protection in 1984 and entered in the Wuppertal monument list under number 67 . Its location is Emilstrasse 44/46.
history
Early modern age
The building was built around 1600 by the yarn bleacher Peter Lüttringhaus and his wife Katharina am Heid on the upper Heidt . Katharina, who was widowed once before her marriage, was the landowner of the property together with her brother Heinrich; her brother stayed in his father's yard on the lower Heidt. The name Lütterkus , which gave the house its name, can be seen as a dialect reading of the family name Lüttringhaus.
Among the bleachers in Barmen, Lüttringhaus was probably one of the more prosperous, although the economic situation at the beginning of the 17th century was initially good for the bleachers and Elberfeld and Barmen . The family, to which five children have been handed down, was spared from the plague that raged in the region from 1612 to 1619 . Even during the first years of the Thirty Years' War , the farm and the people who lived on it were largely undisturbed thanks to its remote location. It was not until 1628 that Swedish troops took their winter quarters in the courtyards that looting and deaths occurred. It is unclear whether Peter Lüttringhaus was killed in these incidents; it is certain that he died between 1620 and 1649. In 1642 there was renewed looting, this time by imperial troops.
The farm was passed on to the eldest son Peter, who continued his father's bleaching trade. The farm was passed on to the Lüttringhaus family (later Erbslöh) for generations. Around 1672, ownership of the building was divided within the family into an "upper" and a "lower" part.
Industrialization and settlement construction
Since the beginning of industrialization and the development of the population as a result of the strong influx of workers, the Heidt has been developed as a settlement; During this time the buildings of the courtyard were increasingly used as rental apartments. Since 1872 the Barmer construction company for workers' housing has been building the area around the courtyard and the last meadows of the former bleaching plant. Around 1922 the two parts of the house accommodated over ten tenants.
The upper, more southern part of the building remained in the family despite the complicated ownership structure until it was auctioned in 1782 and acquired by Johann Peter Nagel. However, Nagel had taken over financially, the Nagelsche estate (this also included the Lichtenscheidt farm in Kohlenstrasse 18 and the opposite Bleicherteiche in today's Lönsstrasse) soon went into the possession of the widow Karthaus, who in turn leased everything to Johann Matthias Wüster in 1795 - initially for eight years. But Wüster bought the property as early as 1798 - at the turn of the 20th century, the third generation of the Wüster family owned the upper part.
A childless heir of the lower part of the house sold it to Karl Leinberger in 1909. In 1930, however, the building contractor Samuel Schutte, married to Martha Wüster, a granddaughter of the purchaser Johann Matthias Wüster, was entered in the land register.
20th century
In 1928, after almost 270 years, the two halves of the farm were sold to a single owner, the heirs of the Wüster family, who had already owned the upper part.
The air raid of May 30, 1943 almost completely destroyed the southern part of Barmer, in particular the remaining half-timbered houses burned to the ground. Emilstrasse with the Lütterkus-Heidt house was spared. After the war (1952), the lower part of the building was bought by Emil Wüstermann, his wife Selma, nee. Wüster, was already co-owner of both parts of the house with the Wüster community of heirs. Due to the housing shortage, the court house accommodated up to 20 tenants until the mid-1950s. The " economic miracle " led to more modern living space on the Heidt and thus to a decay of the building. It no longer met the modern demands placed on apartments, was considered an "eyesore" in the mid-1970s and - years before the first monument protection law came into force in North Rhine-Westphalia - was even threatened with demolition. After the death of Kurt Wüstermann, son and heir of Emil Wüstermann (lower part of the house) and co-owner through membership of the Wüster community of heirs (upper part of the house), the last tenant moved out of the uninhabitable house in 1977, as a result of which historical furnishings disappeared from the empty house . Speaking afterwards was a translocation into open-air museum Kommern (Other information: on Lüntenbeck ). In July 1978 the Wüster and Wüstermann heirs then sold both halves to the architect Dieter Reichardt. Only now was it possible to apply for state funds for the repair of the basically valuable half-timbered house, but Dieter Reichardt has probably also taken over.
Only the sale to Albert Schleberger and Horst Volmer brought the breakthrough. After a nine-year, 1.2 million DM expensive, listed restoration, five residential units were finally built. In May 1986, the topping-out ceremony for the restored building took place, which was inaugurated on October 8, 1986 with a street party. Today it is considered the "jewel of the quarter".
Building description
The building on the hillside has two to three storeys; it consists of the half-timbered main house and a protruding extension from the first quarter of the 19th century, the facade of which is clad with slate and connects to the main building with a towing roof . It has around 300 very different windows and other building openings; after the restoration, the living space is around 500 square meters.
Parts of the interior that have been preserved are a high vaulted cellar on the mountain side of the building and the kitchen with a preserved fireplace. This carries the house brand of the builder Lütterkus-Heidt "PLH" and is the largest fully functional Renaissance hearth in North Rhine-Westphalia.
literature
- Michael Wiescher : Farm owner of the Lütterkus-Heidt . In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Department Wuppertal eV / Historical Center Wuppertal / City Archives Wuppertal (Hrsg.): History in Wuppertal . tape 21 , 2012, p. 1-25 .
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Wiescher: Farm owner of Lütterkus-Heidt . In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Department Wuppertal eV / Historical Center Wuppertal / City Archives Wuppertal (Hrsg.): History in Wuppertal . tape 21 , 2012, p. 1-25 .
- ↑ a b c Bressel: Emilstr. 44, 46. In: wuppertal.de - List of monuments online. City of Wuppertal, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Stevens: Hofeshaus Lütterkus-Heidt restored . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege (Hrsg.): Monument maintenance in the Rhineland . tape 1 . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1987, p. 43-44 .
- ↑ a b c d e Hofeshaus Lütterkus Heidt. In: 200 years of city rights for barmen. Project group "Barmen 2008", February 18, 2010, accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Manuel Praest: Life in the Monument (16): From the ruin to the jewel. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. December 3, 2012, accessed August 10, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 2 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 44.8" E