Hotel Friedrich Hubmann

Hotel Friedrich Hubmann, Wilhelmstrasse 58 in Heilbronn

The Hotel Friedrich Hubmann is a former hotel at Wilhelmstrasse 58 in Heilbronn . The building is a listed building .

history

Staircase in the Hotel Hubmann, designed and executed by August Stotz and Sons, Heilbronn (photo from 1910)

The multi-storey building was built in 1898 as a hotel at Wilhelmstrasse 58, designed by August Dederer for the master carpenter Friedrich Hubmann, who in 1894 not far from the Uhlandstrasse the house Hubmann had built. The ground floor provided space for a restaurant, café, buffet and billiard room as well as the hotel's entrance hall. Twelve hotel rooms with bathrooms were housed on each of the upper floors. The stairs in the building were designed by the blacksmith August Stotz .

In the early 1930s, Heinrich and Emilie Hiller's Viktoria coffee restaurant was located in the building . At that time, the building was owned by the association's printing company (which published the Neckar-Echo, which is close to the SPD ), was then expropriated by the National Socialists and from 1934 onwards was continued by a different host. In 1950 the building was still owned by the club's printing house. Ernst Esch ran the Zum Palmbräu restaurant on the ground floor and first floor , and many apartments were rented out. In 1956 the house was rebuilt. In 1961 it belonged to the pension fund of the German consumer cooperative. The Palmbräu restaurant was now run by Klemens Rau.

The building is one of the longest consistently used gastronomic buildings on Wilhelmstrasse. Especially in the 1970s and 1980s, when the nearby Rathenauplatz was also the city's red-light district, there were also numerous bars and pubs in the neighboring buildings (e.g. No. 66 and No. 68 ), which were mainly targeted by the clientele the red light district and the soldiers of the American barracks a little south of it were frequented. After 1961, the ground floor of the building was used successively by various restaurants, while the upper floors continue to be used for residential purposes.

description

The exterior of the building is designed in the neo-renaissance style. It has two corner bay windows that support balconies and are emphasized by mid- height buildings. At the corner of the building there is another balcony and a coat of arms cartridge . The gable fields of the windows as well as the volute consoles and the wedge stones on the ground floor show figurative stone carvings, the balconies art forged railings.

• Relief faces
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  Bearded face with grapes and vine leaves.
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  Face with grapes and vine leaves.
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  Face with long hair
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  Face with mustache and horns

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monument topography (2007), pp. 139–140.
2. ^ Emilie Hiller at stadtarchiv-heilbronn.de
3. ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1950 , Heilbronn 1950.
4. ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1961 , Heilbronn 1961.

literature

• Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 139-140 .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelmstraße 58 (Heilbronn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry for Hotel Friedrich Hubmann in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn City Archives , contemporary history collection, signature ZS-267

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '59.3 "  N , 9 ° 13' 5.6"  E