Could a 135-year-old house in Nuremberg be demolished soon?
Everything is still open, but a big discussion has already broken out.
Nuremberg - It is 135 years old.
But soon an old apartment building in the * Rennweg district of Nuremberg could be a thing of the past.
There is a good chance that the new owner will demolish the house.
However, numerous residents and monument conservationists are resisting this.
For example, the resident Claudia Sembach (name changed).
She describes
her home
to
Nordbayern.de
as a “small city idyll”.
What exactly does she mean by that?
She lives in the back building of the house at Martin-Richter-Strasse 19, which dates back to the pre-war period, i.e. the 19th century.
More precisely to 1886. The building is in the neo-renaissance style and consists of bricks and natural stone elements.
It is quiet and centrally located, has old wooden windows and a green courtyard.
But even if the house is particularly old: In 2020 the State Office for Monument Preservation checked it - and it was not placed under monument protection.
The rationale at the time was that the war had destroyed the house too much and too much was done in the reconstruction around 1950.
Discussion about a 135-year-old house in Nuremberg: tenants were informed of a change of ownership by post
Sembach and all other tenants have been notified of the sale of the building by post, following the inheritance of the previous owner.
Shortly afterwards, I met the new owner for the first time.
According to Claudia Sembach, he dropped sentences about where underground garages and apartments could be built.
He wanted to combine that with the adjacent vacant lot that he had bought along with the house.
The “Nuremberg - Cityscape in Transition” initiative sees this as a clear indication that the owner actually wants to demolish the house.
Sebastian Gulden and Boris Leuthold are two co-founders of the initiative, which has now addressed Mayor Marcus König (CSU *) by means of several letters.
It promotes the preservation of Martin-Richter-Strasse 19 and campaigns against “the overexploitation of Nuremberg's building culture”.
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In doing so, they clearly oppose the argument that the renovation of an old building would increase the cost of living space.
In your opinion, this has to do with the expertise of an investor.
The initiative is supported in its efforts by Claudia Maué, the city's home nurse.
"It would be extremely regrettable that this house, which is important for the street scene and also marked by the traces of its eventful history, should disappear," she said according to
Nordbayern.de
.
Debate about 135 old house in Nuremberg: owner is annoyed by prejudice
The new owner, a private entrepreneur and real estate developer from the Nuremberg area, is annoyed by the prejudice. The building would not be profitable to maintain without monument protection. “We are currently in the exploratory process with the architects in order to plan an adequate new development, which will certainly further enhance the already almost completely rebuilt post-war district on Rennweg. Building applications or demolition permits have not yet been submitted or obtained, ”he told the
Nürnberger Stadtanzeiger.
While researching the property, Sebastian Gulden found out that the shop on the ground floor (currently a plumbing business) was a delicatessen around 1910.
The descendants of the owner have now sold the house.
A carpenter's workshop was located in the backyard.
According to Gulden, this is a typical combination of living, small industry and handicrafts and characteristic of some parts of Nuremberg, such as Rennweg.
135 year old house in Nuremberg "valuable": Demolition is still formally permissible
This is actually a reason for the municipal building administration and the lower monument protection authority to classify the ensemble of houses as valuable.
But: “Conservation would be absolutely desirable in terms of urban development, but it should not be enforced.
Formally, a termination would unfortunately be permitted ”, as
can be read
on
Nordbayern.de
.
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In Nuremberg there was only recently a great outcry over an old oak tree that had to give way to a new building.
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