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Torhaus Holzminden

Torhaus Holzminden

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Torhaus Holzminden

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Location: Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Weserhotel Schwager Tower – Holzminden Market Square loop from Holzminden

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2. Holzminden Market Square – Weserhotel Schwager Tower loop from Stahle

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3. Weserhotel Schwager Tower – Holzminden Market Square loop from Holzminden

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January 13, 2022

In 1921 the city of Holzminden made use of its right of first refusal and bought the land in order to build a thoroughfare from Neue Straße to Oberbachstraße (Obere Bachstraße). The right of first refusal related only to residential buildings, so that the city of Holzminden and the city planner Leopold Scherman (1875–1970) decided to build an archway with two or three tower-shaped apartments above it.

The building project was funded by the “Landesanleihe zur Förder des Wohnbau” fund. The local company Eisenschmidt AG - Eisen- und Stahlgrosshandlung, founded by businessman Wilhelm Schmidt, financed the construction in 1923 with 34 million marks to organize apartments for employees. Because of the hyperinflation, that support had become practically worthless. In 1923 Eisenschmidt AG still rented the apartments and paid four billion marks in rent in the last quarter of 1923 due to the hyperinflation. The company then had to file for bankruptcy on August 18, 1924. The apartments were then used by employees of the tenant Holzmindener Möbelfabrik AG. In 1925 the city coat of arms was attached to the east side. In May 1925, the mayor Albert Jeep defended the city's construction project in view of the fact that no private individual could finance a house and the city was obliged to follow the example of other cities and to build it itself.
Memorial plaque for the former synagogue

During the Reichspogromnacht in 1938, the synagogue built in 1838 near the gatehouse was destroyed at a stone's throw and demolished in 1968. A plaque in the gatehouse has been commemorating this since November 9, 1999. In 2014, the interior, the stairs and the windows were renovated with sponsorship money and with 50,000 euros from the city's budget. [1] By the end of 2017, the sandstone roof was renovated for 116,000 euros and the facade for 19,000 euros. The Lower Saxony Bingo Environment Foundation contributed 20,000 euros to the renovation costs for the preservation of monuments.

At the end of 2017, the gatehouse was painted with the original green facade tone instead of the white color scheme that had existed for years. The Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation in Hanover decided, together with the city's building regulations, to restore the historical color scheme. [2] The flag of the city is on the roof ridge.

(de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torhaus_(Holzminden))

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January 30, 2022

Even if the gatehouse is not a medieval city gate, it fits well into the old town of Holzminden and creates a connection between the medieval core and the city expansion of the 19th century.

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Torhaus Holzminden

1. Weserhotel Schwager Tower – Holzminden Market Square loop from Holzminden

2. Holzminden Market Square – Weserhotel Schwager Tower loop from Stahle

3. Weserhotel Schwager Tower – Holzminden Market Square loop from Holzminden

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