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Big (left) and Small (right) Klüppel Aachen

Klüppel was the name of a historically significant semi-detached house from the 14th or 15th century and an inn named after this building from the 19th century in the city of Aachen . The Klüppel was originally the corner house of the former Aldegundisstraße, today's Ursulinerstraße, and Edelstraße, also called Eselstraße or Eyselsstraisse, today Buchkremerstraße. It bordered the Pfau house on Edelstrasse and was located relatively close to the Aldegundistor on the inner city wall , which connected to 23 Aldegundisstrasse. The Klüppel had been rebuilt, rebuilt and expanded several times and served as a representative residence, prayer house , city ​​scales , restaurant and warehouse. In 1934 the building complex was finally torn down for construction and traffic reasons. The street corner is now filled by the building complex of the Mayersche Buchhandlung , the side entrance on Ursulinerstraße being comparable to the house entrance to the former Klüppel.

history

The exact date of origin of the original building complex is not known, but it has been proven that a certain Mathias (Thys) Klüppel (Clüppel) is documented as the owner of house number 17 in Adelgundisstraße until 1464 according to the county register. Mathias Klüppel came from a wealthy and respected family in Aachen and it can therefore be assumed that the name of the house has become naturalized after the name of this family. Just a few years later the house belonged to the beer keeper Peter von dem Buschofstave and from 1470 to the rent master Johann von Guilich. In 1490, Jülich Meier and father-in-law of his daughter, Johann Lentz, also gave him the neighboring house at 19 Algundisstrasse, whereupon his previous house was called the big Klüppel and the newly acquired one the small Klüppel . Both houses had a continuous tunnel in common, which could be a moat running behind the houses, as well as a continuous cellar connected by a connecting door.

Until 1537, the big and the little Klüppel remained in different constellations as residential buildings with the respective descendants or beneficiaries of the von Guilich family, although there were often massive disputes between the relatives, which could only be resolved in court. Then the progenitor of the Schleicher family bought it before transferring both buildings to a certain Anton Piller in 1584 due to his relocation to Stolberg for religious reasons .

Use as houses of prayer

At the end of the 16th century, when, at the height of the Aachen religious unrest, the Reformed community in Aachen was temporarily able to politically assert itself, its members moved into the city council and now also set up their own houses of prayer, the big club in 1588 and the small club in 1597 Reformed adopted.

Several years earlier, the duplex had been secretly used as a prayer room by its last owners, all of whom were close to the new faith. Due to the strong influx of predominantly Calvinist believers from the Spanish Netherlands , however, the local believers gained strength and were now politically and financially able to officially buy houses and set them up as prayer rooms. After the purchase of the large Klüppel, which served as the central prayer room for the entire German-Reformed community of Aachen, the small Klüppel was initially set up as a school room from 1592 until it was also converted into a prayer room in 1597. But only a year later took over the Council of the City of Aachen Catholics back the power and the Reformed were by imperial decree with the outlawed occupied and seized the two Klüppel of the city of Aachen.

Around this time, but before 1600, according to historical records, the large club must have been rebuilt for the first time, although it is not clear whether it was affected by the unrest or simply became dilapidated. What is certain is that this part of the building was called New Klüppel for a certain time, but soon the traditional name of large Klüppel prevailed again. Again in 1611 the remaining Reformed attempted to have the two Klüppel surrendered, but ultimately just as unsuccessfully as later in the years 1622 to 1633 when the States General demanded the surrender again.

Use as city scales

The city of Aachen had already sold the little club to the former Aachen mayor Jakob Moll and his wife Margarethe Braumann in 1608 , who have now been owned by the Moll family for around 150 years. In contrast, the big club remained in the possession of the city, which set up storage and work rooms there as well as the apartment for the malt scales . In the great fire of Aachen in 1656, both houses were badly damaged, but they were immediately rebuilt according to old plans. The city ​​scales were then moved from their previous location at Hühnermarkt 17 to the large Klüppel, which was then referred to as the Waag . It stayed here until 1717 and then moved to the Great House of Aachen on Pontstrasse , which had been converted by Laurenz Mefferdatis in the meantime . There are no precise records of the subsequent use of the large club up to 1816. Only the name Am Klüppel of the nearby corner house Aldegundisstrasse / Holzgraben, in which Jakob Couven lived until his death, indicates the continued existence of the Klüppels.

Use as a warehouse and restaurant

In 1806 the innkeeper Josef Giesen first bought the small and in 1816 also the big Klüppel. Because of its space and size, the latter was a coveted object as an office and so Giesen leased it to the cloth manufacturer Joseph van Gülpen and the wool merchant and later Minister David Hansemann, among others . In 1836 the forwarding company Charlier & Trüpel - from 1837 Charlier & Scheibler - took over the big Klüppel and in 1858 Albert Offermann bought it. He ran a large coffee roastery, a colonial goods - oil and tropical fruit wholesaler and a salt store. In 1877 Albert Offermann passed the big stick to his son Emil.

In the meantime, Josef Giesen set up an inn in the small Klüppel, which he called Klüppel according to the area and which was one of the first restaurants in Aachen to receive gas lighting. The Klüppel was a popular upscale restaurant and was visited by numerous diplomats and influential families , especially during the 1818 Monarchy Congress. Albert Offermann, already mentioned, showed interest in also wanting to take over the little Klüppel for his private purposes, so initially rented it in 1837 and finally acquired it in 1865.

Josef Giesen then moved his wine bar to the neighboring houses at Aldegundisstrasse 21 and 23, which were directly adjacent to the inner city wall, and renamed this bar, keeping the traditional name, Zum Neuen Klüppel . Among other things, the founding meeting of the New Aachen Carnival Association took place here in 1859 . When the city wall and some adjoining houses, including the houses Aldegundistraße 21 and 23, were demolished in 1891, Josef Giesen's heirs moved the restaurant a few meters further to houses Holzgraben 1-9. In 1900, this location served the Aachen Chamber of Crafts as a place for its constituent meeting as part of its re-establishment.

demolition

The houses of large and small clubs had been uninhabited since 1932. Due to traffic obstructions, this traditional Aachen building was demolished in 1934 and despite protests from the Aachen population. New commercial buildings were then built in their place.

In place of the Zum Neuen Klüppel restaurant on Holzgraben, which was also demolished in the 1890s , a new corner house and a new restaurant were built, which bordered the Hotel Monopol and retained the name Zum Neuen Knüppel . These houses also no longer exist, instead there are also new residential and commercial buildings and the Hotel Monopol became the old Monopol-Theater in 1921 , which continued to operate as Bavaria-Kino from 1951 but was closed in 2001.

Building descriptions

Wrought iron window grilles on the small clapper Aachen

The big club was unadorned outside and inside and made of a massive construction. In 1497 it consisted of rubble stones, rhombus-shaped blocks, a crenellated crown and a stable. According to Macco, a stable can mean a workshop at this point. Its surrounding and foundation walls were 0.95 to 1 m thick and its rear cellar was built with cross vaults . The rear had three arched windows 1.20 m wide and 3 m high with small lead -framed panes, the slug panes . The two street-facing windows on the first floor were decorated with coats of arms and inscriptions in 1598 and belonged to the room next to the meat collector. Arnold pointed out the peculiarity of the portal from Klüppel Ursulinerstraße 17. The side pilasters are pierced by protruding cuboids. After the city fire of Aachen, only the surrounding walls have been preserved.

The year 1656 was engraved in the keystone above the archway of the large Klüppel. In accordance with the purpose, the reconstruction was carried out in its original simplicity. The device of the large storage window with pulley implements the use as storage rooms.

After the town fire, the small club was bought a larger area and was provided with a local ironworks. These are two mirror-image window grilles approx. 0.70 m wide, 20 cm deep and 1.20 m high and an approx. 40 cm high baroque gable top with a mask between climbing lattice leaves, a calyx depiction on each side and one as a crown Fruit bud between four large leaves made of heavy, coarse cast iron . The ornamentation of the window grille shown consists of two large spirals with a larger transverse mask between the spirals, which are formed by climbing leaf stalks and each end with a small spiral in the corners. Each spiral has another mask. The lower one is decorated with a mermaid . The two artistic wrought-iron window grilles of the small Klüppels were reused as spoilers after the Klüppelhäuser were demolished when the new building at Eupener Strasse 322 was built in 1930. These were included in the register of monuments by the Rhineland State Conservator in 1977 and are currently still in existence.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Classification, number of houses and inhabitants, streets, bodies of water, etc. In: Christian Quix : Historical-topographical description of the city of Aachen. Cologne / Aachen 1829, p. 3ff.
  2. ↑ Cluppel family s. Macco AAV 16, p. 12f.
  3. ^ Finding aid for the evangelical community of Aachen
  4. ↑ Jakob Couven on Rhenish History.
  5. ↑ According to the Aachen map from 1860 , Ursulinerstraße 17 existed twice and was separated from Edelstraße. F. Wilhelm Charlier: Ursulinerstr. 15 (residential building) u. 17 (stock). Concordance 1858.
  6. ↑ Franz Erb, Rolf Marcus: In the course of time. Aachen. A comparison of old and new views. Born, Wuppertal 1988, ISBN 3-87093-034-9 , Fig. 34.
  7. ↑ Peter Hermann Loosen: From the old Aachen. 4. revised Edition. Aquensia-Klette, Aachen 1982, p. 74ff.
  8. ↑ Holzgraben on the list of Aachen street names
  9. ↑ Helmut A. Crous : Aachen as it was. Droste, Düsseldorf 1971, p. 45. Advertisement for the Klüppel restaurant on the Holzgraben in: Echo der Gegenwart. 1892.
  10. ↑ Peter Herrmann Loosen: From the old Aachen. Aquensia-Klette, Aachen 1978, pp. 69-71 (fourth revised edition, 1982, pp. 74-76).
  11. ↑ Macco: The Klüppel House. In: From Aachen's prehistory. 16th year, 1903.
  12. ^ Eduard Philipp Arnold : The Altaachen house. Verlag des Aachener Geschichtsverein , Aachen 1930, DNB 578769506 , pp. 199, 33, 217, note 3, 227f. Arnold refers to Ursulinerstr. 17 as a little club.
  13. ↑ Macco: The Klüppel House. In: From Aachen's prehistory. 1903, p. 11, fig.
  14. ^ Volker Osteneck (arrangement): State Conservator Rhineland. List of monuments. 1.1 Aachen city center with Frankenberg quarter. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, DNB 780315510 , p. 70.

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