Walder Kotten

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The Walder Kotten is a listed former company and factory building complex from the 19th century at Locher Straße 17 in Solingen . Among other things, it houses the Laurel & Hardy Museum .

building

The original building is a mechanical workshop and factory in Solingen-Wald . The entire ensemble stands on a plot of land of around 850 m² and has a built-up area of ​​around 350 m², of which the former factory with office takes up around 240 m².

The ensemble consists of the following parts of the building, which have been added several times in the course of its history.

  • a verschiefertes half-timbered house in which today kindergarten is housed
  • a two-story building attached to it, the former workshop
  • a single-storey extension, former office
  • an attached factory building in brick construction , which is called the actual Walder Kotten

history

Eduard Vock acquired the half-timbered house in 1873 and built the extension as a business premises. Twist drills were initially manufactured here. In 1885 the company was handed over to his son Carl Vock. He expanded production to include the manufacture of buttons and precision mechanical tools for watchmakers, and in 1890 he built the factory building and the office. Carl Vock had a son, Willibald, with his first wife, who died early, and two other children, Thea and Eugen, with his second wife. After Carl Vock's death, his son Willibald continued the business in the buildings from 1944 to 1962. Thea and Eugen Vock became doctors, Thea ran her practice in the half-timbered house on Locher Strasse until 1964.

The company Kücke & Co. in Wuppertal took over the business in 1962. The production was switched to telecommunications, main customers were the German Federal Post and T & N . Production stopped in 1994.

On April 15, 1991, the Kunterbunt eV parents' initiative opened the Knusperhaus kindergarten in the half-timbered house .

The factory buildings were placed under monument protection on October 16, 1984. It is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Solingen under number 87 as an example of living and working in the 19th century . The inside and outside of the building were placed under protection, but the inventory was neglected. A large part of this inventory has therefore been scrapped.

The city of Solingen subsequently acquired the property and in 1988 decided to demolish the facility for the planned southern forest bypass . However, due to massive resistance from the population, especially the parents of the kindergarten children, this project was abandoned. By redesigning the southern bypass, the facility could be preserved, the remaining buildings and the factory building were placed under monument protection as an ensemble.

At the end of 1999 the question arose of how to preserve the Walder Kotten and use it sensibly. Private initiatives like the Freundeskreis Walder Kotten worked together with the city of Solingen. From September 2000 the Sport- und Kulturzentrum Ittertal gGmbH carried out a one-year renovation project as part of a job creation measure with five participants on behalf of the Freundeskreis. The forest district representative supported the work with 3,000 DM for the window renovation. The tenants of the Kottens were Dr. Hans-Joachim Müller-Stöver and Alida Immer, bearers of the Solingen ring of honor. A Walder Heimatmuseum was to be built in the renovated packing room . In 2001, the LVR-Industriemuseum Solingen was contacted in order to have the Walder Kotten become a branch of the industrial museum in a cooperation.

At the end of 2002 Alida Immer died and Dr. Müller – Stöver moved up to the Solingen City Council. At the beginning of 2003, Dr. Müller – Stöver to bring the Laurel & Hardy Museum to the Walder Kotten. The Günther couple had previously shown their collection for the comedian duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in private rooms on Bismarckstrasse in Solingen-Mitte, which the landlord had canceled at the end of September 2001. On March 29, 2003, the museum was reopened on around 70 m², twice as much as in the old rooms, in the Walder Kotten.

The Schützen- und Bürgergilde Wald has rented part of the ensemble since 2006 and, with the support of local craft businesses and the city of Solingen, pushed ahead with the renovation, with the renovation costs being estimated at almost 140,000 euros. In 2010 there was a conflict between the tenant and the conservationists over the preservation of the old, irregular wooden floor with its heavy signs of use. The first meeting with the Lower Monument Authority took place in March 2009 . In summer 2010 an agreement was reached so that a new stove should be placed on a concrete slab. For the workshop oven, the Wald district representative approved an amount of up to 1,000 euros in April 2010. The plan for the further renovation of the 200 m² in autumn 2010 provided for a toilet facility in the lower-lying adjoining room. The old machines still in existence had to be prepared for demonstration purposes. A showcase was provided for information about the history of the Kottens. The Stadt-Sparkasse Solingen made a EUR 2,000 donation for new lighting with lamps that correspond to the building's epoch .

Shortly before Christmas 2013, the city closed the buildings used by the Laurel & Hardy Museum and the Citizens' Guild, as an investigation revealed possible damage to the roof structure . After a first inspection of the building, the Laurel & Hardy Museum was able to reopen just three weeks later. The release of the remaining parts of the building took a long time, so that the citizens' guild had already started looking for room alternatives. Since 2013, the citizens' guild itself has been under heavy pressure to avert a possible bankruptcy because its treasurer had embezzled funds. In July 2015, the Wald 1861 rifle and civic guild and the Wald civic association merged to form the Wald 1861 civic association . With the restart of the association, the work on the Walder Kotten should also be pushed ahead quickly so that it will be available in its new function as early as 2016.

Todays use

  • The Knusperhaus kindergarten has been housed in the half-timbered house since 1991 , and it also uses part of the outdoor facilities.
  • The factory building has housed the Laurel & Hardy Museum since 2003
  • In the rooms that the Walder Bürgererverein rented in 1861 as the legal successor to the Schützen- und Bürgergilde, events of the association and other associations, meetings, lectures, exhibitions and vernissages are to take place after the renovation.

From the original inventory of the factory there are still a forge with forge and anvil, milling, planing and lathes, riveting and drilling machines, a hardening furnace, presses, other machine tools and small tools or have been bought later. After the renovation, these are to be exhibited in a Walder Heimatmuseum.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All dimensions according to http://www.tim-online.nrw.de/
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Info flyer of the WALDer Bürgererverein 1861 eV (PDF; 110 KB) on buergergilde-wald.de , accessed on October 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Kücke company history on new-hifi-classic.de queried on October 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ 20 years of Knusperhaus  ( 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. on elterninitiative-kunterbunt.de queried on October 18, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.elterninitiative-kunterbunt.de  
  5. ↑ a b City of Solingen - ANSWERING TO INQUIRIES, February 24, 2010, request on Walder Kotten - Locher Straße 17 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF; 57 kB) at www2.solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  6. ↑ a b A piece of Solingen living and working tradition - the Walder Kotten presents itself to its visitors freshly renovated, report of the Solinger Tageblatt from September 1st 2001, p. 12.
  7. ↑ Brochure Urban Development Project Solingen-Fuhr, 2001, p. 44 (PDF; 5.7 MB) on edoc.difu.de , accessed on October 18, 2015.
  8. ↑ OFFICIAL SHEET OF THE CITY OF SOLINGEN dated December 14, 2000 p. 3 ( Memento of the original dated March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 52 KB) at solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.solingen.de
  9. ↑ Dr. Hans-Joachim Müller – Stöver ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. on nrwspd.de queried on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrwspd.de
  10. ↑ The Ring of Honor of the City of Solingen ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www2.solingen.de queried on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  11. ↑ Annual circular of the Förderverein Industriemuseum eV from December 2001, page 1 (PDF; 244 KB) on foerderverein-rimsg.de , accessed on October 18, 2015.
  12. ↑ OFFICIAL SHEET OF THE CITY OF SOLINGEN dated December 27, 2002 p. 2 ( Memento of the original dated February 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 266 KB) at solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.solingen.de
  13. ↑ Comeback: Curtain up for Dick & Doof, report of the Solinger Tageblatt of March 29, 2003, p. 12.
  14. ↑ On March 29, 2003 the new LAUREL & HARDY - MUSEUM was opened in WALDER KOTTEN Locher Strasse 17, 42719 Solingen -Wald. on peter-goltsche.de queried on October 18, 2015.
  15. ↑ Solingen: Bürgergilde fights for the Kotten report of the Solinger Morgenpost from March 4, 2010, accessed on October 18, 2015.
  16. ↑ City of Solingen - Minutes of the 7th meeting of the Wald District Representation on September 6, 2010, p. 7 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 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. (PDF; 68 KB) at www2.solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  17. ↑ City of Solingen - Minutes of the 5th meeting of the Wald District Representation on April 26, 2010, p. 7 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 68 KB) at www2.solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  18. ↑ REBUILDING Monument protection and guild are approaching. The building applications for the cultural site should be out before Christmas, report of the Solinger Tageblatt dated November 26, 2010, p. 16, online dated September 24, 2014, accessed on October 18, 2015.
  19. ^ Solingen: Building damage: City closes the museum Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from December 20, 2013, accessed on October 18, 2015.
  20. ^ Solingen: Laurel and Hardy Museum can reopen Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from January 9, 2014, accessed on October 18, 2015.
  21. ↑ City of Solingen - Minutes of the 28th meeting of the Forest District Representation on March 31, 2014, p. 7 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 48 KB) at www2.solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.solingen.de
  22. ↑ Solingen: Schuetzen- und Bürgergilde informed about embezzlement Report of the Solinger Bote from November 26, 2013, accessed on October 18, 2015.
  23. ↑ Solingen: New start after difficult times Report of the Solinger Morgenpost from August 13, 2015, accessed on October 18, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 50 "  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 34.9"  E