Rommenhöller memorial
The Rommenhöller Memorial is a monument in honor of the entrepreneur Carl Gustav Rommenhöller, inaugurated in 1932, on the southern outskirts of the Bad Driburg district of Herste in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located near the Hellebach at the foot of the Löwenberg on Schmechtener Straße ( K 19 ) directly at the Herste / Schmechten exit on the B 64 between Driburg and Brakel . The complex essentially consists of a building called a “hot spring” or “fountain house” and a two-row avenue that characterizes the landscape .
history
Along several tectonic faults or faults - among others on the Osning axis and the Driburg axis - there are numerous mineral springs and several rich carbon dioxide deposits in the eastern foreland of the Egge Mountains. The first "giant spring" in Herste, the Westfalia-Sprudel , was opened in 1894; at that time it supplied large parts of the German Empire with carbonic acid.
In 1925 the Herster carbon dioxide field with the also very productive Carl-Gustav-Sprudel at the site of today's cultural monument was drilled again. The carbon dioxide obtained was further processed industrially by C. G. Rommenhöller Aktiengesellschaft in the neighboring town, filled into pressure vessels and then transported from the factory, mostly by train ( Eggebahn ).
Carl Gustav Rommenhöller , with his carbon dioxide factories , which were also active in other German places and other countries, assumed a key position in the early carbon dioxide industry. One year after his death, the memorial in Herste was inaugurated in his honor . The Rommenhöller family and many guests, including representatives of the carbon dioxide industry from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg and England, were present at the festive event on May 22, 1932.
Since the end of the 20th century, the Rommenhöller memorial has been owned by the Linde company (previously AGA-Gas ), which has continued to operate carbon dioxide production on the northern edge of the village of Herstes ever since.
In April 2008 the memorial was Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe .
Green area
The fenced in and surrounded by agricultural land is about half a hectare in size. The total length of the property is around 180 m, the maximum width at the height of the hot tub is a good 40 m. The 140 m long avenue of lime trees , which ends in an exedra-like semicircle around the building, is visible from afar . The historical "Brunnenallee" is laid out in a straight line in an east-north-east-west-south-west direction and, together with low hornbeam hedges, frames the access pathway that leads from the inconspicuously designed entrance gate on Schmechtener Straße to the monument building. This is slightly elevated with two steps on a terrace .
The freely accessible green area with the hot tub is mainly maintained by the Herster clubs.
Hot tub
The central building , the so-called “Sprudel-” or “Brunnenhaus”, built in the expressionist style with Romanesque borrowings , was built over the mofette of the Carl-Gustav-Sprudel named after the company founder . The building made of roughly sharpened sandstone blocks has a square floor plan and is taller than it is wide. The folded tent roof, partly covered with copper , forms a flat “diamond helmet” over four low triangular gables . The shape of the stones above the portal also takes up a bit of ancient Egyptian architectural language.
On the entrance side facing east-northeast towards the avenue there is a simple two-winged wooden door. Together with two rectangular bronze panels embedded above it and a gable-like crown made of 10 smooth sandstone blocks, it forms an over-high portal . In addition, a stone banner with the words “The founder of the carbon dioxide industry” is attached between the portal and the gable. On the other three identical sides of the monument, inclined twin lattice windows are set into the masonry in the upper half . The building is still characterized by the clearly protruding central mullions of the windows, which extend from the slightly protruding plinth to just below the gable. At their upper ends, they each merge with a number of stones that are arranged in the shape of an arrow and thus visually stand out from the rest of the masonry structure . This vertical shape is reminiscent of the carbon dioxide that "gushes" upwards from the earth. This impression is reinforced by simple stone bands that follow the shape of the eaves and are worked in slightly in relief just below it . Their arrangement corresponds to the banner on the portal page.
The upper bronze plaque above the door gives the full name of Rommenhöller and his life dates in two rows: "Carl Gustav Rommenhöller" and "1853–1931". The larger bronze plaque below was designed by the Dutch sculptor Jacob Jan van Goor (1874–1956) and shows a circular medallion with a portrait of Rommenhöller. The artist's signature “Jac. J. van Goor ”is located on the lower edge of the medallion. Three more bronze plaques were later placed next to the door: on the left one with the two-row inscription “Paul Werner 1889–12. February 1939 ”as well as one with the inscription“ Martin Frank 1886–15. August 1944 ", on the right a medallion tablet with a name inscription with a portrait of Hans Rommenhöller, which is supplemented by the two-line inscription" 1884–1962 AD 1984 ".
The one-room interior of the fountain house can be reached via three descending steps. The interior is kept technically functional. It contains the above-ground rods of the bubble, secured with shut-off valves , the pressure pipe of which extends over the middle of the roof and is visible from the outside.
Portal side of the hot tub with wooden door and two benches
Bronze plaques with a portrait of C. G. Rommenhöller above the door
Rods of the Carl-Gustav-Sprudel inside
View from the beginning of Lindenallee in spring 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DGK 5 , available at tim-online.nrw.de
- ^ Gerhard Müller: Mineral springs of the Paderborn country. Mirror of geological and hydrological diversity and basis for different developments and uses. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: H. Heineberg (ed.): Westphalia Regional. Current topics, interesting facts and media about the Westphalia-Lippe region. Ceremony for Prof. Dr. Klaus Temlitz on his 65th birthday. Series “Siedlung und Landschaft in Westfalen”, Vol. 35. Verlag Aschendorff, Münster, 2007. ISBN 978-3-402-06321-7 . Pp. 34/35. ( html version )
- ↑ a b c d e f g Thomas Bufe, Walter Neuling, et al .: Garden landscape OstWestfalenLippe. Documentation of important parks and gardens in the Detmold administrative district . Contributions to landscape and building culture in Westphalia-Lippe. tape 3.1 . District Höxter, Münster 2002. (see also slightly different html version )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Christian Hoebel, Imme Wittkamp: Monument of the Month April 2008. The Rommenhöller Memorial in Bad Driburg-Herste. Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe. April 2008.
- ^ A b c d e f Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Stations in the history of industry and technology in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Rommenhöller memorial. ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ herste.de: history.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 12 " N , 9 ° 5 ′ 11" E