geschichte.pfad
Historischer Wanderweg Sand
von Manfred Dasbach und Udo Harler
Kapitel 18
Haus Schwäke
Seiten 53 - 54
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 18: Haus SchwäkeThe house opposite the school, the forest tavern Schwäke, was built by Heinrich Althoff at the beginning of 1851. The initials of his name can still be seen above the front door. At that time it happened that the new priest Schmitz wearing his threadbare coat had his first beer of the day in the tavern and paid for it with ten one Pfennig pieces. Althoff who didn’t know his new client yet drily remarked in the local dialect: “My word, you must have got up very early this morning to have already scrounged such a lot of money”. In 1911 Johann Odenthal who later was to become mayor of Bergisch Gladbach acquired the pub. Soon afterwards the Zanders family living in nearby Lerbach Manor tried to buy up all the plots up for sale in the area. Thus they amassed 3660000 square meters of landed property. To their annoyance Mr. Odenthal was the only one who refused to sell. In 1918 he sold his roadside pub to his leaseholder Bernhard Schwäke. From 1948 until her death the inn was run by his daughter who was quite a character and became a kind of institution in Sand. |
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