– All cheese, or all in butter? A very interested crowd of people – we don’t want to write “pushers” – is standing in front of the “Allgäu Cheese and Butter Shop Jean Rost”, as the letters in the shop window clearly indicate. This was last week’s puzzle photo.
And of course we were very interested in where this shop was located – and whether the smell of Allgäu cheese even wafted through a Fürth street. Answer: That’s exactly what he’s doing, because we have the solution.
A huge thank you to Karlheinz Gravenhorst from Roßtal. He moved from the Neu-Ulm district and was naturally on the receiving end of many Archivperlen editions. But not last Saturday.
“One of my great aunts,” writes Gravenhorst, “was called Betty Rost and lived with my grandmother after the war until the end of the 1960s New Ulmuntil she died when she was well into her 90s. She told me back then that she had a milk and cheese shop on a corner in Fürth.” Gravenhorst doesn’t know anything else, neither the exact location nor whether Aunt Betty’s relatives still live in the region. After all, one of her regular customers is said to be the head of the company by Möbel-Krügel.
But to stick with the keyword “corner”. Thanks to reader Gravenhorst, we now know that it was a Fürth cheese and butter shop, even if the exact period of the Rost era – the photo probably dates from the 1920s – remains unknown. But architect Dieter Karl Ludwig shoots the ball into the goal with the appropriate photo from a Fürth illustrated book. Without a doubt, this is the location of the Rost store Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse 13 – which was of course not yet called Ludwig-Erhard-Straße at the time the photo was taken, but rather Star Street.
The romantic-classicist one Sandsteinbau was and is part of the old town ensemble and was built in 1844. The builder was the spice dealer Johann Philipp Pfähler. For a long time there was a branch of the company on the ground floor, in the rooms of the former cheese shop Wölfel Bakery. In 2018 the ground floor was gutted and renovated and today it houses a Burger-Restaurant.
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