Gatehouse (Holzminden)
The Torhaus , also Torhaus am Katzensprung , in Holzminden in the district of Holzminden in southern Lower Saxony is a half-timbered house with a sandstone roof built in 1922 . It is a monument . On the headstone of the archway it says: “The council built me in bad times. May the better pass me ”, since the building was built during the hyperinflation in the German Reich .
history
In 1921 the city of Holzminden made use of its right of first refusal and bought the land in order to build a thoroughfare from Neue Straße to Oberbachstraße (Obere Bachstraße). The right of first refusal related only to residential buildings, so that the city of Holzminden and the city building officer Leopold Scherman (1875-1970) decided to build an archway with two or three tower-shaped apartments above it.
The building project was funded by the “Landesanleihe zur Förder des Wohnbau” fund. The local company Eisenschmidt AG - Eisen- und Stahlgrosshandlung, founded by businessman Wilhelm Schmidt, co-financed the construction in 1923 with 34 million marks to organize apartments for employees. Because of the hyperinflation, this support had become practically worthless. In 1923 Eisenschmidt AG still rented the apartments and paid four billion marks in rent in the last quarter of 1923 due to hyperinflation. The company then had to file for bankruptcy on August 18, 1924. The apartments were then used by employees of the tenant Holzmindener Möbelfabrik AG. In 1925 the city coat of arms was attached to the east side. In May 1925, Mayor Albert Jeep defended the city's construction project in view of the fact that no private individual could finance a house and the city was obliged to follow the example of other cities and build it itself.
During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the synagogue built in 1838 near the gatehouse was destroyed at a stone's throw and demolished in 1968. A plaque in the gatehouse has been commemorating this since November 9, 1999. In 2014 the interiors, the stairs and the windows were renovated with sponsorship money and with 50,000 euros from the city's budget. By the end of 2017, the sandstone roof was renovated for 116,000 euros and the facade for 19,000 euros. The Lower Saxony Bingo Environment Foundation contributed 20,000 euros to the renovation costs for the preservation of monuments.
At the end of 2017, the gatehouse was painted with the original green facade tone instead of the white color that had existed for years. The Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation in Hanover decided, together with the city's building regulations, to restore the historic color scheme. The flag of the city is on the roof ridge.
museum
From 1926 the local history museum for the middle Upper Weser region was located in the gatehouse. It was founded by the businessman Carl Hampe. In the 1990s there was a private doll and toy museum. On April 23, 2016, it reopened as a museum for industrial history and art with exhibits from the companies Stiebel Eltron , Müller + Müller, Otto Künnecke, Symrise AG and the Allersheim brewery and is also used for seminars. The tenants of the gatehouse are Stadtmarketing Holzminden GmbH and the Holzminden Community Foundation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bulletin NO. 205 of the Graduate Association Holzminden eV from June 2015, pages 36–37
- ↑ https://www.tah.de/lokales/lokalnachrichten/news-single/torhaus-im-katzensprung-ist-wieder-gruen.html
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Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 43 " N , 9 ° 26 ′ 57.5" E