Wash house Weegerhof

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Wash house Weegerhof

The Weegerhof wash house is a former wash house and today's museum in the Solingen district of Höhscheid . It is located in the middle of the Weegerhof savings and construction association and was in operation from 1928 to 2005. Today it is considered to be the only preserved washhouse of its kind in Germany with original interior fittings. In addition to the historical washing machines and mangles, the permanent exhibition also includes information on the history of washing . The Spar- und Bauverein Solingen and the Friends of the Solingen Industrial Museum support the museum.

The wash house has been a registered monument since July 3, 2006 .

location

The Spar- und Bauvereinssiedlung Weegerhof extends north of the Weinsberger Bach and is bordered on the ridge by the federal road 229 (Neuenhofer Straße / Grünewalder Straße). The wash house is located in the courtyard of the houses between the Hermann-Meyer -Straße, the Karl-Schurz pathway, the Fritz-Reuter -Straße and the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt pathway and is a walking distance from the place at the Hermann-Meyer - Road accessible.

history

Designed in a uniform architectural style by the architect Franz Perlewitz , the large housing estate Weegerhof with 185 houses was built from 1927 to 1929. The 430 two- to five-room apartments all had a bathroom and a refrigerator (ventilated and ice-cooled closet). The living comfort also included a central washhouse in the middle of the settlement that could be used by every resident instead of various laundry rooms. Up to 650 families (even 816 in the post-war period) from the settlement washed their laundry in the community facility.

In particular, the cleaning of the often heavily soiled work clothes of the many home or factory workers of the Solingen cutlery industry who live in the Weegerhof was shortened from days to a few hours with the help of the machines. The use of the wash house was included in the rent. Tenants of a two-room apartment were allowed to wash 13 kilograms per month, tenants of a five-room apartment 23 kilograms. Each kilogram over the allowance cost 30 pfennigs extra. The wash manager checked the crowd at the large scales in the entrance area of ​​the wash house and kept a record of it.

The wash house closed in 2005 after 77 years of operation and reopened as a museum in November 2007. Since then, it has been open to the public on the first Sunday of the month from February to November. In addition, group tours with museum educational support are offered on request. The Spar- und Bauverein Solingen and the Freundeskreis Waschhaus also organize readings, exhibitions, concerts and neighborhood parties in the Waschhaus.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. laundry Weegerhof on sbv-solingen.de, accessed on September 29, 2015
  2. List of monuments of the city of Solingen ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) from July 1, 2015, accessed on September 29, 2015
  3. Brief introduction: Perlewitz, Franz (* 1882 Berlin + 1955 Solingen) ( Memento from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 184 KB) on www2.solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015
  4. ^ Siedlung Weegerhof 1927–1929 , Spar- und Bauverein Solingen eG (PDF; 472 KB) at sbv-solingen.de , accessed on October 18, 2015
  5. ^ Portrait of the museum ( memento of September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on industriemuseum.lvr.de, accessed on September 29, 2015
  6. ^ Solingen: Waschhaus is now a museum report of the Solinger Morgenpost from November 23, 2007, accessed on October 18, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '24.9 "  N , 7 ° 4' 35.3"  E