Hontes

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Hontes (2008)

The Hontes is the oldest profane building in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is on the market (house number 9), immediately west of the parish church of St. Johann Baptist and opposite the old town hall .

The foundation walls of the building are dated to the Middle Ages . According to a first documentary mention in 1627, it served as a prison and was previously a "kennel for the hunting pack of the Lords of Löwenburg ". In 1722 the building was rebuilt, in 1732/33 it appears as "Hundthaussgen" in an invoice from the Löwenburg office . The Hontes served the main court of the office in Honnef as custody until 1800 and was also the town hall of Honnef until the beginning of the 19th century . After Honnef regained its communal independence in 1862, the council first met in Hontes. A higher municipal boys' school (today's Siebengebirgsgymnasium ) was set up here at Easter 1899, and it was given different accommodation as early as 1900. In the time of National Socialism , it served as the local home of the young people from the beginning of 1934 ; the inauguration took place on January 15th. During the Second World War the building was used as a military detention center. The Hontes later became the home of various local associations and, after a successful renovation, had been leased to a local carnival association since 1997, which acquired it from the city in February 2014.

"According to other unsuccessful attempts at interpretation, the name 'Hontes' may contain a last linguistic remnant of the Franconian 'Huntdings' (= court of hundreds), which we can assume for Honnef as the place of jurisdiction, later the seat of the main court, even in Franconian times."

- Karl Günter Werber (2002)

The Hontes is a two-storey baroque stone building with a half-hip roof on a floor plan of 6 by 8 meters. A covered staircase leads to the upper floor, which consists of half-timbered houses . The higher basement has a barrel vault . Underneath and accessible through a hatch is the cellar known as the “hole prison”. Two loopholes were uncovered in 1998. The Hontes stands as a monument under monument protection , registration in the list of monuments of the city Bad Honnef took place on 27 November 1986th

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Commons : Hontes  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Zimmermann, Hugo Borger (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 273). Kröner, Stuttgart 1963, DNB 456882847 , p. 44.
  2. ^ Karl Meisen: Rheinisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde , Volumes 17-18, Verlag F. Dümmler, 1967, p. 134
  3. ↑ Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rhöndorf (ed.); August Haag : Pictures from the past of Honnef and Rhöndorf . Complete production JP Bachem, Cologne 1954, p. 83.
  4. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Bad Honnef am Rhein in old views , Volume 2, European Library, Zaltbommel 2000, ISBN 90-288-6625-6 , Fig. 36.
  5. ↑ The date of birth is a laughing stock , General-Anzeiger , February 4, 2009
  6. ^ A b August Haag : The higher school system for the male youth of the city of Honnef am Rhein. I: From the beginning until 1945 . In: August Haag, Hans Neunkirchen (Hrsg.): Memorial to the inauguration of the municipal Siebengebirgsgymnasium Honnef am Rhein: March 21, 1959 , Siebengebirgsgymnasium, Honnef a. Rh. 1959, pp. 9-21 (here: p. 14).
  7. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 445, 449 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  8. ^ Carnival society Halt Pol buys the old prison , General-Anzeiger , February 14, 2014
  9. ^ A b Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 13 .
  10. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 119

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '42.2 "  N , 7 ° 13' 38.7"  E