Kümmelbacher Hof
The Kümmelbacher Hof is a property built around 1800 on the Schneckenbuckel in Neckargemünd . The property was first expanded in 1879 when the brewery was rebuilt at the Kümmelbacher Hof . The original castle-like building below the brewery became the Kümmelbacher Hof spa hotel around 1920 through considerable extensions . It existed until the early 1960s. Until 1976 the entire area belonged to the city of Heidelberg . The property has been unused since 2006 and is in ruins.
history
Emergence
At the end of the 19th century, the Heidelberger Flur Schneckenbuckel was a piece of forest rising from the Neckar directly on the western outskirts of Neckargemünd. The Kümmelbach formed the border between the districts of Heidelberg and Neckargemünd.
When the founding of a brewery was mentioned in 1879, there was already a large agricultural and forestry property with a castle-like mansion on the Schneckenbuckel . The two-wing, northwest-facing building was adorned by a hexagonal, four-storey residential tower with a pointed roof that was visible from afar towards the Neckar valley. The property called Kümmelbacher Hof gave the new brewery its name. In 1883 Karl Heckmann was named as the owner of the Kümmelbacher Hof brewery , Heinrich Hochschwender in 1889, the Heinz & Glyckherr consortium in 1895 and finally Georg Heinz in 1899. How long the brewery was in production is not known. The brewery and malt house stood until the mid-1970s.
Spa hotel
At the beginning of the 1920s, the mansion was expanded into a spa hotel. First, around 30 m from the main building, a 45 m long restaurant porch facing north was added at ground level with the Café Panorama , the roof of which also served as a sun terrace and viewing terrace. This porch with its three rotunda-like bulges was connected to the main building by a wide corridor that served as a vestibule . In order to increase the number of beds, the facility was expanded a short time later with a 35 m long new south-east wing. The existing 20 m long northwest wing was given a right-angled kitchen wing, whereby the residential tower had to give way to the new building. At the beginning of the 1960s, the north-east wing was extended from 20 to 60 m in length, connecting it to the new south-east wing, and two more storeys that jumped upwards were placed on the sun terrace, the upper one being made entirely of glass and steel. The spa hotel ceased operations around 1961. The entire property was for sale.
Karl Hunter
The former SS-Standartenführer Karl Jäger , under whose command 137,346 Jews were murdered in Lithuania in 1941, settled in Wiesenbach near Heidelberg in 1945 under his real name . In 1951 he changed job and place of residence to the Kümmelbacher Hof. Until his arrest in April 1959, he lived undetected in the former master brewer's apartment in a small extension of the abandoned brewery. Professor Wolfram Wette suspects in his book Karl Jäger: Murderer of the Lithuanian Jews that at least the manager of the spa hotel was informed about Jäger's past. In 1960 the brewery extension with Karl Jäger's shelter was demolished.
Training center and senior residence
In 1964 the department store group Kaufhof AG bought the Kümmelbacher Hof and, after some renovations and extensions, established its in-house training and further education center for executives there. First-time sellers , substitutes and department heads were trained in weekend and weekend courses by our own lecturers living in the area . In the mid-1970s, the existing malt house of the old brewery was partially demolished and made usable by a new construction and extension in L-shape with seminar rooms and a large hall, whereby the structure of the former brewery was retained. After this expansion, the Kaufhof also offered the infrastructure of the Kümmelbacher Hof to external companies to hold seminars in order to keep the rising maintenance costs for the property within tolerable limits. In 1976 the city of Heidelberg sold the Schneckenbuckel corridor to the city of Neckargemünd. In the same year, the management board of Kaufhof AG decided to relocate its training activities to the company headquarters in Cologne and to sell the Kümmelbacher Hof property to the bfw , the vocational support organization - a non-profit educational institution of the DGB .
In the same year, the bfw opened a technical school for work educators in the Kümmelbacher Hof . It was the first recognized school of its kind in Baden-Württemberg and moved into the new building recently built by Kaufhof AG at the old brewery. After the state recognized shortly afterwards as a vocational school for geriatric care assistants , the school also offered courses leading to a qualification as geriatric care assistant (one year) and geriatric nurse (three years). The course consisted of school and internship blocks. The students lived in the south-east wing of the property. With the establishment of the geriatric nursing degree courses, the bfw rented the former hotel wing to the Pro Seniore company of FDP politician Hartmut Ostermann , who set up the pro seniore Neckarblick residence there and the seat of the registered association DSK (German Senior Citizens Support and Health Aid Regional Association Worms). Thus the internship blocks of the bfw could take place on site and Pro Seniore paid the entire tuition fees.
The end
Although Hartmut Ostermann, as the owner of Pro Seniore Gesundheitsdienste , was acquitted of the charge of tax evasion in 2005 for lack of evidence, he immediately gave up the Neckarblick residence and thus deprived the bfw of a large part of the financial basis.
At the end of the 2006 summer semester, the bfw surprisingly withdrew from the Kümmelbacher Hof and has since been based in Heidelberg with its technical college. Pro Seniore leaves his Kümmelbacher Hof, which is still owned, to decay.
On February 17, 2013, on the third floor of the south wing, a fire in the vacant building destroyed several rooms and part of the roof. The fire brigade managed to prevent the fire from spreading. A burning towel deposited in a plastic bathtub was identified as the cause of the fire. In October 2013, all of the remaining furniture was disposed of in containers and removed; some of the windows were removed. Since then, the building has been regularly checked by a local security service in order to better secure it. According to Pro Seniore, the complex is part of the company's strategic reserve that will be used should the need for a senior citizens' home in the region arise.
Main building 2012
Entrance area 2012
Entrance kitchen 2017
Missing elevator doors in the kitchen building
future
In February 2018, a representative from Pro Seniore announced that he wanted to set up a "senior citizens' residence with hotel character" in the complex. As part of a feasibility study, the feasibility of the project should be checked in the course of the year.
literature
- Herbert Derwein: The field names of Heidelberg , Verlag Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1940
- Wolfram bet : Karl Jäger. Murderer of the Lithuanian Jews. Foreword by Ralph Giordano . Frankfurt / M .: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-19064-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Derwein: The field names of Heidelberg , Verlag Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1940, No. 333
- ^ Chronicle of the brewery at the Kümmelbacher Hof
- ↑ Various postcards from the time
- ↑ Christian Jung: The inconspicuous mass murderer from the neighborhood
- ↑ mm: President arrested , August 27, 2002
- ↑ Operation report of the Neckargemünd fire brigade ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ What will happen to the Kümmelbacher Hof? ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, March 8, 2013
- ↑ A senior village is to be built here. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, February 3, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2018.
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 28.6 " N , 8 ° 46 ′ 37.7" E