If houses could tell stories, it would be particularly interesting to see what house number 178, today Hauptstraße 25, in Großrinderfeld has to tell from almost two centuries.
Since it was located in the middle of Grossrinderfeld, it was aware of almost everything that has happened in the village since it was built in 1827. Commercial buildings, restaurants, workshops and public buildings up to the church were in its immediate vicinity.
The house itself has also undergone an amazing change. Two years after the great fire of 1825, it was built by Andreas Leuchtweis on the site of the previous building. Later the house went back to a fluorescent light via Dürr and Borst.
Around 100 years after the construction again in the possession of luminous sign
In 1926, the daughter of the Borst family moved to Tauberbischofsheim after their marriage and sold the house to their cousin Ferdinand Leuchtweis. He had been married for four years and Tüncher by profession. He rebuilt it and lived there with wife Ida and the children.
In 1866 the returning Württemberg troops passed the house, who had just lost a battle near Tauberbischofsheim. Hours later the Prussians followed Würzburg and occupied Großrinderfeld on the way there.
The founding of the German Empire in 1871 was celebrated in the town hall next door. In 1912, during the great imperial maneuver, the troops peacefully passed the house. In 1918/19 the soldiers returning from the First World War came by. In 1926 during the Reichswehr maneuver, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg was sitting in a passing state car.
Soldiers of the Reichswehr were camping in the forecourt in front of house number 178. Numerous Nazi propaganda events and rallies took place at the neighboring town hall. From 1939 the propaganda speakers were installed there. The Großrinderfelder Hauptstraße had been renamed Adolf-Hitler-Straße during this time.
Numerous military columns thundered past the house
In 1945, US trucks drove past the house in seemingly endless columns. Previously, the withdrawing German soldiers had thrown most of their ammunition, especially hand grenades, into the aisle to the adjacent “milk house”.
During the “Cold War”, numerous US Army maneuvers took place. Trucks and tanks thundered across the main street. In the shop and in the house, the panes, glasses and dishes vibrated in the cupboards.
Photo: Klaus Reinhard
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From house number 178 there was a good overview of the fires in the village in 1908/09, 1930 and 1952. On New Year’s Eve 1908, the so-called “small village” between the church and the village pond burned down.
In 1930 numerous barns and the apartment building Spinner burned down in the corner of Hauptstrasse and Grabenweg. In 1952, almost a quarter of the area between Hauptstrasse and Untertorstrasse fell victim to the flames. Since 1948, Ferdinand Leuchtweis had been the commander of the volunteer fire brigade, which could not do much against these major fires.
After 1980 the old house was replaced by a new one
From the beginning of the 1930s, Leuchtweis rented rooms to teachers and kindergarten teachers. The municipal scales were installed in front of the neighboring town hall, where wagons with grain and potatoes were regularly weighed. In the town hall itself there was another teacher’s apartment on the second floor, in which Teacher Hauk most recently lived.
With the economic upturn in the Federal Republic from 1949, there was a chance that a shop would come into the house. Anton Scheiner, who later became the shop operator, and Ferdinand Leuchtweis rebuilt the house. The home garden became the forecourt.
Sofie Scheiner, Anto’s sister, moved into the business as a sales assistant and operated it for several decades. “At the Sofie”, a typical corner shop, there was almost everything. Since her sister Marie was married to “Obertorbeck August”, there were already rolls from 6 a.m., which many passersby on Bundesstraße 27 used for shopping.
After 1980 the Scheiners also became owners of the house. When Sofie “retired” at almost 90 years, the house was finally demolished and replaced by a new building. Today it houses a blind shop and other tenants.
Milk houses, restaurants and bus stops nearby
All bus stops to Würzburg, Tauberbischofsheim, Karlsruhe and Mudau were right in front of the house and the adjacent “milk house”. Incoming and departing post buses and their passengers were observed every day. Across the street there were three restaurants that were not only used regularly by large cattle fields on Sundays and public holidays.
Photo: Klaus Reinhard
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In the “Milchhäusle”, the large cattle fields delivered their milk to mornings and evenings and came together with the village youth to exchange information. By the 1960s there were almost 100 milk suppliers. Next to the milk collection point of the community was the old “Schweizer” department store, which was operated in the old style until the end.
Martin and Bernhard Schäfer’s smithy lay in the middle alley, where horses were shod until the 1970s. Countless vehicles passed the house on Bundesstraße 27. Since the construction of the Autobahn from Heilbronn to Würzburg, the former federal road has only been a country road.
About 100 meters away was the old kindergarten with more than 50 children, most of whom passed House 178 on the way home. Until 1972 the mayors Emil Weismann, Wilhelm Stolzenberger and Walter Richter went in and out in the town hall next door. Today there is a bank branch there, the new town hall is located on the market square.
Photo: Klaus Reinhard
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