Kropff's house
The Kropff'sche Haus was originally a trade house in Olsberg , its origins go back to the beginning of the 18th century and was rebuilt and expanded several times in the following centuries. Today it is used as a children's home.
Building history
The Kropff family was an important family of trades and entrepreneurs in iron mining and iron processing in the Brilon and Olsberg area, especially on the Eisenberg, from around the 17th to the 19th century.
Through the marriage of Johannes Kropff to Anna Maria von der Becke, a sister of Brilon's mayor Johann Friedrich von der Becke, numerous mining rights came into the family. An indication of the economic success at the end of the 17th century was the decision of Johannes Kropff to build a new house. The plan was implemented in 1701. The building was a three-aisled longitudinal hallway. There were living rooms in the closed side aisles. Parts of the house are included in the current complex as a "coach house".
In 1904 the gable was heavily modified in the historicist style. The gate beam and gate post are still in their original condition. The original inscriptions have also been preserved. In the early days there was only one open fireplace, as is common in the region’s farmhouses.
Another building has been drawn in on old plans behind the long hall house. It is unclear when it was built. It may also have been built in 1701, but it may also be older. The building was a two-story residential building. After a new villa was built in the 19th century, parts of the building were used as a lodging house for the employees of the Olsberger Hütte .
Covering both buildings with slate instead of straw was still expensive at the time and shows the wealth of the owners.
In the 19th or the beginning of the 20th century, a villa in the historicist style was built next to the old trades house. The building shows the striving for representation and made the wealth of the entrepreneurial family clear to the outside world.
Use as a children's home
Caspar Kropff, owner of the Olsberger Hütte , died in 1888. His wife Ida, née Brüning, later married the privy councilor Hans Carl Federath and died in 1918. She set up the Kropff-Federath Foundation Children's Home . The villa was partially demolished in 1922 and an orphanage opened in 1929 under the direction of the Vincentians , who retired in 1971.
During the Second World War there was a military hospital here.
literature
- Carsten Vorwig: From the Hallenhaus to the Palais. The houses of the Kannegießer, Unkraut, Ulrich and Kropff trade families during the heyday of the Brilon mountain district from the 17th to the 19th centuries . In: Stefan Baumeier / Katharina Schllimmgen-Ehmke (ed.): Golden times. Sauerland economic citizens from the 17th to the 19th century. Essen, 2001. ISBN 3-89861-006-3 , pp. 174-197.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '7.9 " N , 8 ° 29' 28.7" E