It tells a piece of local history, the house on Fürsten- / Alleestrasse in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
A general store moved there in the 18th century, and later it became a department store with a bakery.
Now the complex is being demolished.
What will arise in its place is unclear.
The Hohenleitner house on Fürsten- / Alleestrasse has housed a general store since 1782.
What will happen on the 1,800 square meter area after the demolition has not yet been determined.
The number of owners can be traced back to the 17th century.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen -
It is not a piece of jewelry.
No more.
And has been for some time.
Anyone walking past Haus Hohenleitner on Fürsten- / Alleestrasse in Garmisch-Partenkirchen can hardly imagine that the complex was once a central meeting point.
It was advertised as “a department store for everyday needs” in the 1920s.
It can already be found in the commercial register of the Kingdom of Bavaria for the year 1871 as Karl Hohenleitner's grocery store.
Josef Ostler describes the later mayor of the Garmisch market (1881 to 1893) as "very active".
The local historian knows from his research that he bought and resold a number of objects, such as the Alpenhof.
Hohenleitner also founded the Stahlbad am Sonnenbichl, which attracted summer visitors.
And he married in said shop.
Under the aegis of the merchant and baker, the house grew to its present size.
There is no longer any trace of the former glory.
Most recently it housed a second-hand sports shop, a tile dealer and an insurance agency.
Ostler, who lives right next to it, remembers “various shops”.
But he also still knows that you could buy everything you need there in the past.
Haus Hohenleitner is on the gable, in memory of the aforementioned bustling mayor.
The lettering will disappear.
The building will be demolished after the heirs have sold it - according to reports to a developer from the Starnberg district.
When the property will have to give way and what will happen on the approximately 1,800 square meter area has not yet been determined.
“So far, no application has been submitted to rebuild the property,” says town hall spokeswoman Sandra Debus.
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Haus Hohenleitner was still a popular meeting place in the 1950s.
Most recently, the shops in the often expanded complex changed several times.
© Josef Ostler Collection
With the demolition of the complex, a piece of local history disappears.
Once again.
It was built in 1735/36.
“The family previously owned a house on Frühlingstrasse next to the brewery,” explains Ostler.
After this was to be expanded, Josef Pischl and his relatives sold for 700 guilders and a building site on the lower village bridge - also a good location not far from the parish church of St. Martin.
"Then they built a new one." The property passed from Josef to his brother Anton Pischl, a dealer.
A Kramer moved in there as early as 1782.
In addition to groceries and fabrics, the Hohenleitner house also had fresh bread
"In the shop, which was in the best business location for the time, the population could not only meet the need for colonial goods and fabrics, but also get tasty bread from the in-house bakery," wrote Anna Hohenleitner, who incidentally had nothing to do with the former mayor has, in June 1936, in her article “A business that is over 125 years old” for the Loisachbote, the forerunner of the Garmisch-Partenkirchner Tagblatt.
Her granddaughter Regina and her husband Bernhard Matheisl discovered this while sorting the estate of Hohenleitner's daughter, who died in 2019, and who copied many of the articles, texts and letters in Sütterlin script on the typewriter and thus preserved them for posterity.
Below the said story about the office building on Fürsten- / Alleestrasse.
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According to this advertisement from the 1920s, the Hohenleitner house has everything for daily needs.
© Josef Ostler Collection
According to the reporter, the number of owners can be traced back to the 17th century.
Ostler also confirms this.
The house name, which is known in local circles to this day, goes back to Anton Pischl's daughter Agatha.
In 1809 she married Anton Reiser, to the “Goriger” or “Gori” - this is what the general store has known since then.
Anna Hohenleitner has researched “that strangely enough, a daughter is always the house heir”.
As a result, the names of the owners changed often.
"The handover of the shop as 'female marriage goods including the warehouse' was first mentioned in a document in April 1808, namely the handover to Goriger's wife", it says in her article.
Both son, Johann Evangelist Reiser, married Maria Hipp from Murnau in 1846.
After his death, the widow married Karl Jakob Hohenleitner who, after her death in 1885, tied the knot with Katharina Marschall from Ettal.
Their daughter Maria and her husband, Dr.
Hans Riesner, - an engineer who, among other things, had built the Loisach Bridge in Breitenau - was the owner of the property when Hohenleitner's article appeared.
“Both have brought the business to a remarkable level through restless diligence and the constant endeavor to meet the wishes of a discerning clientele.” According to the requirements of the time, it has been enlarged through frequent renovations: “The six, the entire lower front The shop window occupying the stately house with the exhibited samples of the extensive inventory guarantee the efficiency of the company, which can now look back on more than 125 years of existence. "
That is over now, 85 years later.
The house will be demolished, this was announced to the community in 2019.
So far, only the new owner knows what is to be built on the site, but he could not be reached.
One can only hope that another piece of jewelery will be built there.