Hattingen - Bügeleisenhaus Anno 1611 02
The Flatiron Building is a half-timbered house in the Old Town Hattingens in the southern Ruhr area. Today the name accommodates a home museum of the club devoted to the maintenance of local regional traditions and characteristics.
1611 built houses comes from his striking form (Bügeleisengebäude) which is owed again of the situation in the meeting of two lanes.
The Hattinger citizen Wilhelm Elling let the building establish in 1611. He was presumably a businessman.
In 1620 a cultivation occurred in the side. The well coming from this time is six metres deep. The building is built.
From 1771 to 1856 lived here the cloth doers who produced on her handlooms to cloth for ladies' clothing and man's clothing as well as for uniforms. The last cloth doer in this house was Franz Sindern.
In 1853 the Jewish butcher Salomon Schmidt acquired the house and allowed to alter it. He furnished a butchery, a sausage kitchen and a small store in the house. Beside the front door a shop window was inserted in the classicistic style, the other windows were increased, a stairwell was inserted and not grown in the side a small horse stable (any more available).
In 1874 the Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt transferred to her daughter Amalie and their husband, the butcher Nathan Cahn, the whole property incl. building.
Their descendants, Selma and Alfred Abraham, were expropriated in 1941 by the National Socialists, were deported and murdered, you were the last Jewish owner of the house.
The house became in 1945 of the Jewish trust corporation (JTC), as a legal successor, back-transferred. This sold it later to the city of Hattingen.
Hattingen - Bügeleisenhaus Anno 1611 02
The Flatiron Building is a half-timbered house in the Old Town Hattingens in the southern Ruhr area. Today the name accommodates a home museum of the club devoted to the maintenance of local regional traditions and characteristics.
1611 built houses comes from his striking form (Bügeleisengebäude) which is owed again of the situation in the meeting of two lanes.
The Hattinger citizen Wilhelm Elling let the building establish in 1611. He was presumably a businessman.
In 1620 a cultivation occurred in the side. The well coming from this time is six metres deep. The building is built.
From 1771 to 1856 lived here the cloth doers who produced on her handlooms to cloth for ladies' clothing and man's clothing as well as for uniforms. The last cloth doer in this house was Franz Sindern.
In 1853 the Jewish butcher Salomon Schmidt acquired the house and allowed to alter it. He furnished a butchery, a sausage kitchen and a small store in the house. Beside the front door a shop window was inserted in the classicistic style, the other windows were increased, a stairwell was inserted and not grown in the side a small horse stable (any more available).
In 1874 the Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt transferred to her daughter Amalie and their husband, the butcher Nathan Cahn, the whole property incl. building.
Their descendants, Selma and Alfred Abraham, were expropriated in 1941 by the National Socialists, were deported and murdered, you were the last Jewish owner of the house.
The house became in 1945 of the Jewish trust corporation (JTC), as a legal successor, back-transferred. This sold it later to the city of Hattingen.