Principal market 5
The Prinzipalmarkt 5 building is one of the renovated, historic gabled houses on the Prinzipalmarkt in the Westphalian city of Münster . Today it is a modern commercial and office building.
Development with three gabled houses
Probably around 1500 to three principal market were at this point gable permanent houses built. The Thurn und Taxis ' post office on the former Postgasse, with the gable facing the Lambertikirche , was built in 1643. To the east, in Postgasse, was the brewery of the innkeeper Laporte, whose hotel Königskrone was on the Kornmarkt.
In 1777, the merchant Franz Wilhelm Cruse acquired the larger of the two gabled houses facing the Prinzipalmarkt from a widow Mengelkamp. Since the building was in poor condition, on November 10, 1777, the city ordered him to rebuild the house if he wanted to use it as a residence and a coffee house. In August 1778 he moved in and shortly afterwards ran an inn, which from 1779 served as a club for the Civil Club Münster. The first ball was held in the house on February 5th. A few years later the Gasthaus Cruse was renamed Hotel Cruse .
The son-in-law Bernard Anton Gerbaulet became the new owner of the house in 1797 and renamed it Hotel Gerbaulet . His son and successor, Ferdinand August Gerbaulet, named the hotel King of England on January 1, 1824 . After marrying Dora Schmedding in 1829, whose parents' house was the corner house on Grütgasse, the three gabled houses gradually came into the possession of the Gerbaulet family. This explains the plan for a larger new building, especially since the city of Münster also showed interest in a grand hotel on Prinzipalmarkt.
New building from 1841
The three gabled houses and the old post house were demolished in 1841, after the Gerbaulet family had also acquired this property. The new building was erected at great expense as a four-storey house with a large hall and, in keeping with the fashion of the time, in the classical style without the gables typical of the traditional development on the Prinzipalmarkt.
The Gerbaulet family transferred the hotel to other hands in 1889, after Hermann Gerbaulet had managed it alone with his mother from 1860 and after her death in 1881.
In 1896, a stock corporation , chaired by Reichsgraf Bonifazius von Hatzfeldt- Trachenberg (1854-1921), became the owner of the house. The building was extensively rebuilt in parts in order to meet the contemporary requirements of a hotel.
The hotel was renamed "Hohenzollernhof" in 1916, shortly before the hotel was closed in 1918 and the property became the property of the city of Münster. This rented shops and offices to various companies, the house now bore the name " Handelshof " , which is often used for office and commercial buildings .
During air raids on Münster during World War II , the building and the Prinzipalmarkt were destroyed between 1943 and 1945.
Reconstruction in 1950/1951
As early as the end of the war in 1945, a broad discussion began about the reconstruction of Münster, in particular about the design of the Prinzipalmarkt as the “good room” of the city. While maintaining the plot of land, which were actually too small and cramped for the standards of the 20th century, facades were erected here that were based in a simplified form on the shape of their predecessor buildings, i.e. neither contemporary modern new buildings nor mere copies, replicas or reconstructions .
Since the gableless building Prinzipalmarkt 5 from 1841 had often been criticized as a disharmonious contrast to the structural environment and an architectural blot, even before the reconstruction discussion, the reconstruction took place in 1950/1951 with three gables, as they were on the assembly group before 1841. Despite the general consensus on the design of the Prinzipalmarkt, the additional expenditure for this triggered a fierce debate in the City Council of Münster, as the city, as the building owner of the house, had to carry out an extensive construction program as part of the rebuilding of the city, which was badly damaged by the war, in a bad financial situation. Ultimately, however, the city only expected itself to do the extra work that it demanded from all other builders on the Prinzipalmarkt.
After the house was completed in 1951, the Heinrich Petzhold company, which had been in the house since 1937, moved into the ground floor. The city uses the upper floors for office space.
literature
- Roswitha Rosinski: Dealing with history when rebuilding the Prinzipalmarkt in Münster / Westf. after the 2nd World War. (= Monument Preservation and Research in Westphalia , Volume 12.) Habelt, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7749-2230-6 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 43.5 " N , 7 ° 37 ′ 42" E