New Mint (Hanau)

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The Hanau Mint around 1908/10.
Photo with uncertain date, before 1940.

The New Mint in Hanau was a half-timbered building from 1658 in Erbsengasse in Hanau. During the Second World War , the building was destroyed and then demolished.

history

The New Mint was established in 1658 under Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau. It got its name because it replaced the old coin opposite, which had been torn off the year before and which had to give way to the construction of the Johanneskirche . Between 1672 and 1682 different denominations were minted in the Neue Münz by the Hanau counts in accordance with the minting law of the County of Hanau . The mint was relocated again as early as 1681 and the building initially became a Lutheran parsonage and consistory ( inspectorate ). After a donation to Landgrave Wilhelm IX. it was moved to Marktgasse in 1768 , and the Neue Münze became a Lutheran orphanage . Around 1769 a tax value of 1,350  florins was determined. In 1847 it came into private hands.

The building was destroyed by an air raid in December 1944 or January 1945, i.e. before the great destruction of Hanau's old town during the air raid on Hanau on March 19, 1945 . The exact time is not entirely certain. A photo dated December 7, 1944 shows the rubble of the building, according to other sources the destruction did not take place until January 6, 1945, when the nearby city ​​palace was also badly hit.

building

The stately half-timbered building was located in the bend in the street , which is still there today, diagonally across from the commandant's office and had the house number Erbsengasse 20, formerly Erbsengasse 5. The two-story building had side extensions at the rear. At times it took up to ten tenants. The street side was divided by two risalit- like front buildings standing on pillars , in which there were small rooms. There were two small gardens in front of the house. Today there is a parking lot at the place of the New Mint . The street name of the former Erbsengasse (today: Münzgasse ) indicates the building.

See also

literature

  • 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , p. 265, no. 281/82.
  • Heinrich Bott : The old town of Hanau. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau. Ed .: Hanau History Association. Hanau 1953, p. 140 and plate 31.
  • Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: Walk through the old Hanau. With photographs by Franz Stoedtner. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2006, ISBN 3-8313-1498-5 , p. 14.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Bott : Drafts for an orphanage in the old town. In: Stadtzeit 6. 700 years of city rights, 400 years of Jewish existence. Hanau 2003, ISBN 3-9806988-8-2 , p. 157.
  2. ^ Heinrich Bott: The old town of Hanau. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau. Ed .: Hanau History Association. Hanau 1953, p. 140 and plate 31.
  3. ↑ 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, p. 265; so also Hans-Günther Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939–1945. (= Hanau history sheets. 48). Hanau 2015, ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1 , p. 285.
  4. ↑ Hanau street names on www.hanau.de .

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 1 ″  E