Cabbage drawer
The Krautlade was a former copper yard in the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the city region of Aachen . The buildings, badly damaged during the Second World War , finally had to give way to a changed street layout in March 1964. The history of this copper yard shows its importance for the economic development of the city's brass industry .
16th and 17th centuries
The oldest reference to the cabbage drawer contains a depiction from 1544 by the painter Egidius von Walschaple . He created it on behalf of the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer due to a long-standing legal dispute between the Reich Abbey of Kornelimünster and the lords of the castle of Stolberg and shows the Vichtbachtal in great detail. The drawing shows the Jans-Ravens-Mühle instead of the cabbage drawer, which is known to have been granted the right of use by the lord of the castle in 1532.
In addition, a picture of an old door of the cabbage drawer was handed down, on which the year 1565 can be seen. This year Johann Raven built the Krautlade copper yard.
The heirs of Johann Raven sold the copper yard in 1609 to Heinrich Hansen, an Aachen copper master . His son-in-law, Jeremias I. Hoesch (1568–1643) and married to Katharina Hansen (1579–1653), who also emigrated from Aachen to Stolberg because of the Aachen religious unrest, continued to run it.
In 1611 he built the New Krautlade. The mill of the Kupferhof took advantage of the steep slope of the Vichtbach flowing through the Stolberg . The mill had its own reservoir, which was supposed to provide sufficient supplies for the mill wheels. It is no longer preserved today.
18th century to the present
In the middle of the 18th century, the Hoesch family sold the krautlade to Isaak Peltzer , who soon thereafter sold it to Johann von Asten. He was succeeded as the owner by Matthias Ludolf Schleicher , who set up a thimble factory in the buildings.
A map from 1818 shows both the old and the new cabbage drawer. A document from 1800, on the other hand, shows next to the old herb drawer a part of the courtyard that bears the name Wuppermanns Hof.
In the second half of the 19th century, the Peters family lived in the Neue Krautlade , which they used as a flour mill. In 1900 the mill fell victim to a fire. At the same time, the Königs family lived in the Alte Krautlade , which was given the name "Könnigs-Hof" for this reason. The building was also inhabited by the rag dealer Meisen, who owes the name "Meisens Lumpes".
The Krautlade buildings were already badly damaged before the start of the Second World War. They suffered further damage from the effects of war during the fighting from September to November 1944. So the buildings were demolished and the herb shop was created in its place as a fair and car park. Most of it fell victim to the construction of a bypass in 1964.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Ramm (editor): Mills, hammer mills and copper yards in the Vicht Valley and their owners (= contributions to the history of Stolberg, Volume 23), Stolberg 1998, ISBN 3-926830-12-3
- Kurt Schleicher: Die Krautlade in Stolberg , In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein , (ZAachenerGV) 76, 1964, pp. 516-518
Web links
- Portrait on stolberg-abc.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '44.3 " N , 6 ° 13' 15.4" E