Zehnthof (Leutesdorf)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Zehnthof in Leutesdorf, photo from 2007 before the conversion to the youth hostel seminar house

The Zehnthof (also the Zenn or the Zinn) is an angular building complex with a retaining wall on the Rhine side and a Renaissance gable at Rheinstraße 25 in Leutesdorf am Rhein, which belongs to the Neuwied district. The gable that characterizes the building is clearly visible from the Rhine. It is registered as a cultural monument in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate: List of cultural monuments in Leutesdorf . The chapel of the former retreat house of Johannes Haw's home, the so-called Blue Chapel , which contains a stained glass window by Johannes Schreiter built in 1965, was part of it . It was demolished as part of the new building and the glass window was sold abroad.

history

The building was built at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War by the Trier mayor Kuno Schmitz. The year on the building indicates 1618 as the construction date. In 1671 the tin was sold to Karl Kaspar von der Leyen , heir to the Archbishop of Trier . In the following decades it was used for overnight stays by the Trier electors during the deer hunts in the Leutesdorf and Rheinbrohler forests. The name Zehnthof is based on the tenth of the income claimed by the church in the legal system of the Middle Ages . In Leutesdorf, a wine press house was built on the Zinn property in 1761 , in which a tenth of the wine harvest of the dependent winegrowers was collected, to which the Herford monastery claimed.

In 1803 the ecclesiastical territories were secularized in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and the Zehnthaus went into private ownership, it was added and rebuilt several times. In the course of the 19th century, the building called Schusterinsel at that time belonged to an Opladen textile company. He rented it to the Johannesbund from 1945 and sold it to this religious community in 1949. From then on it was called Agnesheim and housed elderly people and single mothers as well as some sisters of the religious community. From 1952 to 1966, the Johannesbund's scripture mission moved into the lower floor of the building. After that it was inhabited for a while by the secular community of Ancillae Domini and stood empty before the renovation plans.

New construction of the Leutesdorf Monastery Youth Hostel

Youth hostel with Zehnthof, side of the Rhine
Youth hostel street side

In 2012, the Bad Hönningen community submitted an application to convert the building complex with a new building for use as a youth hostel . The planning area comprised an area of ​​0.6 hectares adjacent to four of the municipal streets Zehnthofstraße, Johannes M. Haw-Straße, Rheinstraße and Allergasse. First of all, the necessary flood protection had to be clarified , for which the building should be elevated so that it can be submerged in the event of flooding. The superstructures of the building in the 1950s to 1970s were to be dismantled.

On January 13, 2013, Interior Minister Roger Lewentz handed over the approval notification for the project funding, in which the state of Rhineland-Palatinate contributed 6.4 million euros. The total cost was 8.75 million euros. For cost reasons, the originally planned renovation of the former monastery building on the Leutesdorfer Rheinufer (Johannes-Haw-Heim) was abandoned, this building was instead demolished and replaced by a new building in which the multi-storey youth hostel with 37 guest rooms and a total of 151 beds is housed. Eight of the guest rooms are handicapped accessible. The seminar rooms are housed in the tin itself. A construction diary documents the two-year construction phase.

On June 19, 2015, the opening ceremony of the youth hostel, which bears the name Jugendherberge Kloster Leutesdorf , took place. According to Interior Minister Roger Lewentz in the opening speech, the state and the participating community expect an upturn in tourism in the region with the projected 30,000 overnight stays per year. According to the youth hostel headquarters, the former Johannes Haw home is the 44th hostel in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2016 the youth hostel counted 28,240 overnight stays.

Web links

Commons : Zehnthof Leutesdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Lists , accessed on January 28, 2016
  2. ^ Regional history of the Middle Rhine , accessed on January 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Zoning plan for the Bad Hönningen community ( memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 28, 2016
  4. ↑ Construction diary January 25, 2013 ( memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 30, 2016
  5. ↑ A breath of fresh air in old monastery walls SWR from June 19, 2015, accessed on January 30, 2016
  6. ^ Rhein-Zeitung of January 11, 2017, Neuwied edition. Youth hostel is a magnet for families

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '0.9 "  N , 7 ° 23' 5.4"  E