Slaughterhouse (Koblenz)

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The former slaughterhouse in Koblenz-Rauental
The former cattle market hall, now a branch of a hit market
The relief on the front facade

The slaughterhouse in Koblenz was in operation from 1890 to 1993. The cattle market hall, which was renovated in 2009, has been preserved from the slaughterhouse in the Rauental district and is now used by a supermarket .

history

A central slaughterhouse was to be set up as early as the French occupation (1794–1814). In 1807, the secularized Florins Church was chosen for this purpose. Since Koblenz fell to Prussia in 1815 , things never got that far. In March 1859, the Koblenz police department, which was also responsible for public hygiene , proposed several building sites, but all of them were outside the city ​​fortifications . Due to the Rayon Law , only simple buildings were allowed to be erected outside the city walls at a certain distance from the fortifications, which could easily be destroyed in the event of war. Therefore, the butchers and the city council shied away from the costs, as they would have to pay for the removal in case of war, and the plans were not pursued further.

Due to the population growth at the end of the 19th century, urban sanitation has now been fundamentally reorganized. After the first waterworks went into operation in the 1880s and the first sewer system was built in the city, the city administration now set its sights on house slaughter . The 72 house slaughterhouses in Koblenz were a source of infectious diseases , as the waste and blood of the animals ended up in the street gutters or was disposed of in pits. As a result, seeping sewage posed a threat to the groundwater , from which the population obtained their drinking water through draw wells .

A building site proposed in 1885 near the garrison hospital, which was housed in the old Dominican monastery in the old town, was rejected after popular protests. The military now agreed to loosen the building regulations outside of the fortifications, also because their task was foreseeable due to the advancing war technology, and allowed permanent structures. After a suitable building site was found on the Hundspfad in what is now Rauental, the city master builder Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler was commissioned in 1886 to plan a municipal slaughterhouse, who revised a preliminary design by his provisional predecessor Georg Breiderhoff. On February 22, 1888, the Koblenz city council approved the construction of the project for around 400,000 marks (€ 2,892,863). The foundation stone was laid on July 4th, 1888 and on May 15th, 1890 the new slaughterhouse could be inaugurated. In the first year, the performance of all butcher shops in Koblenz was exceeded. In the years 1911–1913, the slaughterhouse was expanded to include the cattle market hall that still exists today, according to plans by Mäckler.

The operation of the slaughterhouse ceased in 1992. Except for the cattle market hall, which was listed in 2002 , the buildings were demolished. This has meanwhile been used culturally and finally renovated in 2009 after a long search for investors. Since October 2009, the branch of a HIT store has been housed in the building .

construction

The slaughterhouse in Koblenz originally consisted of the actual slaughterhouse and a cattle yard separated by a wall. The slaughterhouses included a slaughterhouse for large and small livestock and a pig slaughterhouse. There were also stables , tripe laundry , a cold store and a machine and administration building.

The cattle market hall, completed in 1913, has been preserved to this day, as it is an example of early reinforced concrete construction. The three-aisled hall has a basilica cross-section made up of seven girders . Wall paintings with colored tendrils were reconstructed in the second hall axis. There are three large ventilation lanterns on the roof . On the front facade under the gable there is a relief of a man leading a bull . Along the Schlachthofstrasse four goal posts on a cross-shaped floor plan and a brick wall between them including two wrought iron gates with circular ornaments have been preserved.

Monument protection

The former cattle market hall of the slaughterhouse has been a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) since 2002 and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Rauental at Schlachthofstraße 66 .

The former cattle market hall of the slaughterhouse has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .

literature

  • Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
    • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
    • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
  • Reinhard Kallenbach : Koblenz's story retold . Mittelrhein Verlag, Koblenz, 2012, ISBN 978-3-925180-03-3 .
  • Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .

Web links

Commons : Slaughterhouse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 48.3 "  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 30.3"  E