Tuchmann Offices and Residences 1930
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In order to show the central pre‐war streets and buildings roughly as they were laid out in the 1930s, there is an overlay of a 1945 map for the area of Marienvorstadt ‐ Nuremberg City Planning Office from February 12, 1945.
Marienvorstadt
On the occasion of the anniversary year of 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany and thanks to project funding from the foundation of the same name, Geschichte Für Alle e.V. follows Jewish traces through Marienvorstadt.
Today, simple postwar architecture and monotonous office buildings characterize the streetscape along Marienstrasse and Gleisbühlstrasse. Little is reminiscent of an upperclass residential area, which the district presented itself as for a long time. Only in the area of Blumenstrasse and at the end of Badstrasse has a last remnant of the pre‐war development been preserved.
The Marienvorstadt, named after the Bavarian Queen Marie (1825‐1889), was the first planned city expansion of Nuremberg outside the city walls in the 19th century. The city of Nuremberg acquired the so(called Scherlersgarten and Gleisbühl, both of which were owned by the Kress von Kressenstein family, as the building site. Starting from the Marientor, the street network, laid out at right angles, extended with Marienstraße as the central axis. The individual parcels were auctioned off to the highest bidder from 1860 onwards. The development plan provided for a garden suburb in the so-called open pavilion construction. Gardens were to be created in front of and between the detached houses. Anyone who thinks that the Marienvorstadt was created as a purely residential area with magnificent gardens is wrong: due to the proximity to the central train station, which opened in 1847, tradespeople especially settled here. As early as 1863, ten of the 26 house owners were wholesalers or merchants, seven were factory owners and five master craftsmen, all of whom also went about their business here. In 1876 there were 18 factories in the suburb, a large part of the open space was built over with shed houses, warehouses, workshops and hop kilns. The latter point to a trade that particularly shaped the district the hop trade.
In the second half of the 19th century, Nuremberg advanced to become a center of the German and worldwide hop trade; an economic sector in which a particularly large number of Jewish entrepreneurs have traditionally been active. 23 hops dealerships were located in Marienvorstadt alone. One of the largest was the Bernhard Bing hop shop at Marienplatz 6. Another family that had been in the hop trade for a long time was the Hopf family. Löb Hopf (1794‐1868) moved from Uehlfeld to Nuremberg as early as 1851, just one year after the first Jew in over 350 years received a settlement permit in Nuremberg. Three years later he registered the hop trading company "Hopf und Sons". The parent company was initially at Marienstraße 1, later at Bahnhofstraße 3, the location of todays Grand Hotel. As in many other Jewish families, the members of the Hopf family developed a broad political and social commitment. Several foundations can be traced back to the family, above all the construction of the Central Franconian home for the blind by Emil Hopf (1860‐1920).
Another Jewish company in the district was the Tippco toy factory owned by Philipp Ullmann (1883‐1971). The company was best known for its vehicles, but also made mechanical tin figures, carousels and trains. Ullmann emigrated to England in 1933, but returned to Nuremberg after the end of the war.
