The Story of the House at Gerberstrasse 8

Gerberstraße 8 today

The Story of the House at Gerberstrasse 8

Built by Unknown
Year of Construction Unknown
Change of Ownership 1692 Wolfgang Leonard Hurrer, Tailor and wedding Master of Ceremonies Married to Margaretha Barbara Ehrmann
  17.07.1709 sold to Johann Michael Meyer, butcher, for 312 florin.
  1743 Georg Leonhard and Maria Barbara Grimm, butcher
  1765 passed to Joahann Balthasar Grimm, butcher, for 500 fl
  1796 to the widow Anna Maria
  07.10.1800 passed to Johann Thomas Grimm, butcher for 1500 fl
  1838 acquired by the son-in-law Johann Michael Dobel, baker, for 2500 fl
  14.08.1877 purchased by Karl Friedrich Steghöfer for 20.000 Reichsmark (RM)
  19.08.1886 to Johann Friedrich Bach, baker, for 22.000 RM
  24.02.1908 acquired by Johann Wolfgang Grässel, baker, for 34.000 RM
  12.03.1913 acquired by the brothers Sigmund and Viktor Germann for 32.500 RM. Shoe and leatherware business (1913 shop conversion)
  05.02.1919 Viktor Bermann’s share passes to his parents Bernhard and Johanna Bermann
  02.07.1919 Brother Sigmund Bermann acquires this share
  25.09.1935 to Gustav Hertlein, book and stationery shop, music ware, for 26.000 RM. Run by Gunda Seidel from 1946 to 1971
  1983 Demolition and construction of a new residential and commercial building
Source : Gunzenhausen municipal property register, Translated by Lesley Loy

Gerberstrasse 8 in 1884

The second house on the left. From “Old Views of Gunzenhausen” Wilhelm Lux