Kurpfälzischer Hof (Wermelskirchen)
The Kurpfälzischer Hof stood in Wermelskirchen in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district .
In Wermelskirchen at Kölner Straße 16 there was a historic inn until 1908. The name of the inn comes from the dukes of the Electoral Palatinate , who were also sovereigns in the Bergisches Land .
In a historical map from 1802, one word is Guiard for a house. The location corresponds to today's Kölner Straße 16. The French word "Guiard" is a proper name: A Pierre Guiard was a member of the small Catholic community in Wermelskirchen. He calls himself "Cleric maistre" on the one hand, and "marguillur in charge" on the other, i.e. Kirchmeister or something similar. In 1763 he issued a court handbook for 50 thalers .
The owner in 1802 is Peter Schmits. In 1804, his widow pays 10 stüber for the house no . This hundred slip was a measure of the taxpayer's solvency. The "Gasthaus zur Eich", for example, paid 1 thaler 22 rooms . The largest farm in Wermelskirchen, the Gaddemer Gut, paid 3 Taler 32 Stüber.
In 1810 the Scheffe and landlord Peter Schmits and his wife Anna Lucia borrowed 1764 thalers from the then mayor Arnold Frowein, who lived on the Eich. Maire was the official title for the mayor at this time. In 1819 the widow Schmits approved the deletion of the mortgage before the notary Pfleger.
During this troubled time around 1812 the "Knüppel Russen" plundered the local administration. These so-called stick Russians were called juvenile conscientious objectors . a. destroyed the records for the military levies for the Napoleonic armies. They were called Russians at the time because the Russian armies were the only ones in Europe that resisted Napoleon. Clubs were the armament. In order to prevent such excesses, Maire Frowein made a list in 1813 for the payment of a night watchman , Peter Schmits pays 1 thaler for his house. The same goes for the “Zur Eich” inn.
Peter Schmits, host, bailiff and tenant of the “Kurpfälzischer Hof” becomes “Entreprenneur” in 1822, d. H. Road money recipients at the Wermelskirchener barrier on the Eich. There were several such barriers to financing and maintaining the street in Wermelskirchen. For example on Unterstraße, in Grunewald, on Kreckersweg, in Preyersmühle and in Bergisch Born.
The Electoral Palatinate Court was given to his children Julius and Adelheit on June 16, 1828 by the Royal Prussian Major Georg Freiherr von dem Bussche Ippenburg (1779-1853) . The contract also includes the knight's seat in Hackhausen near Solingen and other large properties in Hilden , Gladbach, etc. The estate should come from the legacy of the von Bottlenberg family, known as Kessel , which died out in 1820 . How this family came to the Kurpfälzischer Hof is not known.
The original cadastre from 1830 shows Freiherr von dem Bussche with cadastral article 45, 16 acres in size with a house in hall 5, parcel no.94.Peter Schmits, now called the leaseholder, sells his lease right to his daughter Eberhardine, but pays him in 1838 4 Taler for the night watchman's salary. Baron von dem Bussche sells the “Kurpfälzischer Hof” in 1839 for 6,000 thalers to Karl Lucas, an innkeeper from Hückeswagen .
Many other documents for the Kurpfälzischer Hof have been preserved in the literature. In 1859 the widow Lucas, Helene nee. Rübenstrunck, to Gustav Preyer from Kreckersweg. The inn is now called "Hotel Preyer". As early as 1865, the Preyer couple sold the house to Carl Bung from Ründeroth for 8,500 thalers. This family sold to Willibald Engels in 1908. In the same year the Kurpfälzischer Hof, last called Hotel Preyer, burned down and was not rebuilt. A planned new building was never carried out.
Until 1969, the ruined property was only an adventure playground and wilderness. At the end of the Second World War , around 1944, an air raid shelter was planned in the rear part. T. also executed. In 1969/70 these tubes were closed by the construction of a residential and commercial building.
Sources and literature
- Parish archive St. Michael, Wermelskirchen, Wk 26.
- Breidenbach, NJ, The "Kurpfälzischer Hof" in Wermelskirchen, Rhein.Berg. Calendar, Berg.Gladbach 2007.
- Breidenbach, NJ, The court in Wermelskirchen ..., Wermelskirchen 2004, Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, ISBN 3-9802801-5-2 .
- Heinrichs, PJ, History of the City of Wermelskirchen, 1892. Reprint in "Alt-Wermelskirchen" 1991.
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 24.5 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 54.3" E