Weber's house

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Weber's house

The Weber'sche Haus was a former residential building in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ). The house temporarily served as a provisional courthouse for the first royal district court in Elberfeld.

Building description

The four-story Weber's house in the style of the Bergisch house with mansard - hipped roof was in the Duke Street . It had a basement and was designed with five axes on the front side. In the center there was a three-axis central risalit that reached as far as the attic floor, on the fourth floor. The risalit was covered by a triangular gable . The building was accessed in the middle by a two-flight flight of stairs . There were pilasters at the corners of the house and the risalits .

At the time it was considered a tall structure.

history

The establishment of the District Court of Elberfeld (as the predecessor of the District Court of Wuppertal) goes back to an initiative that was supported by Mayor Johann Rütger Brüning and City Councilor August von der Heydt and led to the establishment of the District Court on May 9, 1834. The court in Elberfeld was initially responsible for the city of Elberfeld and the districts of Elberfeld , Solingen and Lennep and was officially opened on November 24, 1834.

Weber's house, which Weber's heirs rented, served provisionally as the courthouse. The house was rebuilt for its new purpose. Some of the ceilings had to be reinforced in order to carry the burden of the files. City architect Otto von Lassault announced at the end of 1834 that he had received 2000 thalers from the ministry to set up the regional court. The work to renovate the house was carried out under time pressure. For example, the superstructure deputation in Berlin was not submitted for super-revision before work began, but was only submitted subsequently by the government in Düsseldorf in March 1835. The report produced on it in April 1835 is signed by Schinkel , Günther and Hagen.

On the initiative of the city of Barmen , the Wupperinsel on Haspeler Brücke , the city boundary between Elberfeld and Barmen, was determined as the new location in 1841 , and the new building was then built, which was inaugurated in 1854.

At the end of the 19th century, Weber's house on Herzogstrasse was closed and the Eckhard & Köttgen department store was built in its place. This house was largely destroyed in the air raid on Elberfeld .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Klaus Peter Huttel: Wuppertaler Bilddokumente. a history book for the 19th century. in picture and text 1985, ISBN 3-87093-007-1
  2. ↑ a b Judges' Council of the Wuppertal Regional Court (ed.), Jurisprudence and Contemporary History 1834–1984, 150 Years Wuppertal Regional Court, Born-Verlag Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-87093-005-5
  3. ^ Ernst Zinn: The architecture in Elberfeld during the first half of the 19th century 1968

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 25.2 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 41.3 ″  E