Gatehouse at Katzensprung

In 1921, a residential building at this point was demolished to make room for a connecting path to Neue Straße. In order to create new apartments, the road was bridged in 1922/1923 with a gatehouse designed by the city architect Leopold Scherman. However, this initially served as an office building for Eisenschmidt AG, which paid four billion marks in rent for the last quarter of 1923. In 1926 the town's local history museum was opened in the building; For many years it housed a private doll and toy museum.

In the area of the cat's jump there are memorial plaques for the Jewish victims of the National Socialist racial policy and the synagogue. The presence of Jews in Holzminden has been documented since 1557. In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a flourishing community here, which in 1838 built its synagogue in close proximity to what is today "a stone's throw". Nothing remained of it: the people were expelled or murdered, the church was destroyed in 1938 and finally demolished in 1968. This is remembered in the passage through the gatehouse; To the east, on November 9, 1999, a memorial plaque with the names of the victims was erected. The gatehouse is now used by Stadtmarketing Holzminden GmbH for its fragrance and aroma seminars.

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