When the ketchentor disappeared
Who still remembers the "gasthof zum baren"? In the hospital alley? In its place stands today a new nuchterner building, in which clothing is offered instead of clogs. How the grafsblock got its name, why the inner ketschentor no longer exists, and what happened to the "villa valesca" was, probably also not every coburg woman anymore. The new demolition calendar of the old town friends – the sixth in the meantime – provides information.
Werner minier has found twelve interesting objects. He searched the city and state archives, the city museum initiative and coburg residents who still have historical photos in their possession. Named are rupert appeltshauser, christian boseckert, gerhard eckerlein and karl-ulrich pachale.
The calendar for 2018 is structured like the previous ones: the rough historical black-and-white photo is juxtaposed with a small current color photo. Michael heinrich was again responsible for the design, and veste-verlag for the printing.
He is not interested in pointing the finger of blame at past mistakes, emphasizes werner minier. Instead, the aim is to "increase sensitivity for future decisions" sharpened to avoid undesirable developments. And the author sees a positive development in coburg at the moment. "The situation has been particularly encouraging in the city’s recent past, where preservation or even reconstruction to the historic form of listed buildings is taking place more and more frequently, especially from the private sector."
It is not concealed that many a showpiece has disappeared from the city because it could hardly be preserved at the time of its demolition. For example, the inner ketchentor, which had to give way in 1791. The reasons: "the end of hostile threat, the high unjustifiable financial maintenance and hygiene reasons". Or the representative villa valesca on the new way. It was badly damaged by artillery fire in 1945 and destroyed by the resulting fire. A new building erected on this site after the second world war by the protestant free church is now used by the "schlaraffia coburg" association.
The sale of the calendar starts next saturday from 10 to 14 o’clock at the stand of the altstadtfreunde in the spitalgasse.
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