Villa Schmidt (Drensteinfurt)
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 54.7 ″ N , 7 ° 44 ′ 17.8 ″ E. The Villa Schmidt is a building in Drensteinfurt in the Warendorf district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is one of the most striking buildings in Drensteinfurt. The villa is a stop on the cultural path through the city and was entered on the Drensteinfurt monuments liston August 9, 1990.
history
The Villa Schmidt at Landsbergplatz 5 bears witness to the recent history of Drensteinfurt and is reminiscent of the Münsterland strontianite mining period from around 1871 to 1885. The Villa Schmidt was built by the former strontianite mine owner Peter Schmidt. A relief on the front door and mosaic tiles in the corridor as well as the architecture of the villa, which is striking for Drensteinfurt, are a clear sign of the short heyday of mining and the affluent lifestyle of the "mining barons". The crystalline mineral strontianite (SrCO 3 ), which is rare in Europe , was used to extract sugar (e.g. from sugar beet). Strontianite mining, which led to a phase of economic boom and prosperity in Drensteinfurt, declined relatively quickly towards the end of the 19th century, because strontianite was replaced by the more frequently found and cheaper celestine (SrSO 4 ), which had the same rhombic crystal structure and therefore seemed equivalent. Strontianite mining came to an end quickly.
The Villa Schmidt is not only closely connected to the mining history of Drensteinfurt. During the Nazi regime, the doctor Dr. Metzger, who protected and rescued people persecuted by the regime, especially Jews.
Today the city's job center is located in the villa.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 100 years of Villa Schmidt. (No longer available online.) SPD-Drensteinfurt, October 30, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 5, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ List. (PDF) of the monuments of the city of Drensteinfurt, which according to § 3 DSchG were entered in the list of monuments. City of Drensteinfurt, October 31, 2013, accessed on January 20, 2015 .
- ^ City of Drensteinfurt , Heimatverein Drensteinfurt e. V.
- ^ Sabine Omland: On the history of the Jews in Drensteinfurt. Archive of the district of Warendorf, Warendorf 1997, ISBN 3-920836-17-0 .
- ^ Job Center Drensteinfurt , City of Drensteinfurt.
