House Weegh

Haus Weegh is a listed building in the Bienen district of Rees in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Kleve , Niederstraße 3.

House

The "Haus Weegh" in Rees-Bienen is a representative T-house made of brickwork and one of the rare examples of 1920s architecture in the area of the city of Rees . It is the only bees' house that was not destroyed during World War II . It has been a listed building since 1993 . Its architectural peculiarities, such as the five-axis facade with the three-leaf lattice windows and the balcony, the brick gazebo in front of the original wooden entrance door and details in the front building such as the tiled flooring in the hall, the winter garden and the wooden stairs have remained unchanged to this day.

history

The Weegh House after a drawing by Wolfgang Loos (1982)

The "Haus Weegh" was built in 1923/24 by a farmer named Elsing. The farm comprised around 30 dairy cows and a stallion station . Farmer Elsing was also the manager of a herd of around 100 dairy cows. The herd belonged to the city of Cologne and was bought by the former mayor of Cologne and later Federal Chancellor Adenauer to supply the Cologne schoolchildren with milk. After the first cut, the animals were driven to pasture near Grietherbusch for pasture . The milk produced was initially transported in cans and horse carts to the train station in Empel . From there it was transported to Cologne in refrigerated vehicles belonging to the Reichsbahn. Of the three farm buildings that existed at that time, only the one directly adjacent to the house is left today. In 1932 the house was bought by Gerhard Weegh, the father of the future chief executive. In the 1930s the farm buildings were used by a sausage factory. 50 pigs and 3 cattle were processed here every week. The sausage factory was only in operation for about two years. Around 500 pigs were fattened in the existing farm building and slaughtered in the basement of the Weegh house.

The Second World War had its sad climax in bees with the heavy bombardment on March 23, 1945. House Weegh, which was the only one to survive the attack, found refuge here in the following two weeks for 90 inhabitants of bees and their cattle. The Allies also used this circumstance and requisitioned the Weegh house as a location for their officers. After 1945 the Wieland weaving mill employed 30 women and men on 10 looms in the Weegh farm buildings. The offices were in the front building. The weaving was followed by a top trading company called Valenciennes. In the 1960s, the Lüdecke printing company was finally located in Haus Weegh. She also used the rooms in the front building as offices. In addition to the various uses described, parts of the farm building were also used as living space. In the following decades, there was space for 5–7 apartments in alternating distribution in the front and middle buildings.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Johann and Katharina Gebbing's apartment in Haus Weegh served as a post office. It was from here that all mail from the bees department was collected and distributed. For a long time there was also one of the few telephone connections in the community. The post office was given up when Johann Gebbing retired in 1965.

In the autumn of 1994, the recent history of the house began when the nature conservation center in the Kleve district moved into an apartment in the front building.

Nature Conservation Center Kreis Kleve eV

Nature Conservation Center Kleve

House Weegh

After moving in, the newly hired employees initially had the task of renovating and equipping the rooms and making them usable as offices using the latest technology. On December 15, 1994, the purchase contract between Mr. Hans Weegh and the Nature Conservation Center in the Kleve district was signed. Since then, the house has been owned by the nature conservation center. In autumn 1999 the front and middle buildings were completely renovated with funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and with support from the city of Rees. Care is taken that the character of the house is preserved and that the aspects of monument protection are taken into account. Work of the nature conservation center In terms of content, the work of the center is determined by the fact that it fulfills the tasks of a biological station in the Kleve district according to the concept of the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . This concept provides for a joint sponsorship of nature conservationists, "nature users" and authorities, so that representatives of different interest groups are brought together as members of the association: on the one hand, there is voluntary nature conservation (e.g. the German Forest Protection Association ) and on the other the district farms of Geldern and Kleve, forest farmers, foresters, hunters and fishermen, but also the district of Kleve and the city of Rees are represented in this sponsoring association. This results in an important model for the work of the nature conservation center: " To combine the protection and use of the cultural landscape as far as possible. " For this purpose, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the district of Kleve and the cities of Rees and Kleve provide an annual budget of over half a year Million DM available.

The nature conservation center's tasks and work areas are varied. The focus is on the work in the nature reserves, which the NZ is responsible for. In addition to the nature reserve Bienener Altrhein, Millinger Meer and Hurler Meer , which is right on the doorstep, the managed nature reserves include, for example, the Salmorth and Knauheide areas in the north of the district, the Wisseler dunes near Kalkar , the Reeser Altrhein south of Rees or the Lower Nuthseen and the Veengraben near Goch . For these areas, the nature conservation center works out the maintenance and development concepts in coordination with the responsible authorities and implements them in cooperation with the farmers. Of course, support also includes the fact that the employees observe plants and animals in these areas, record their existence in the protected area and precisely follow the development of the respective flora or fauna . Because the success of the protection concepts can only be checked with this data.

Since the protected areas are embedded in the cultural landscape in which people live and work, the nature conservation center sees it as a further task to provide advice to authorities, associations and private individuals on ecological and nature conservation issues. In addition, the nature conservation center carries out various species protection projects and other project work. The main purpose of this work is to develop and protect nature where it is possible and sensible, also outside the actual protected areas.

gallery

House Weegh
House Weegh

literature

Ulrich Werneke and Stephan Engels, published in the Klever Heimatkalender 1999
Nature conservation center in the Kleve district

Web links

51.79952 6.36543Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '58.3 " N , 6 ° 21' 55.5" E