's a house of Mülheim citizens," says innkeeper Eugene Meyer about his housing and work, he end of the year with his wife Angelika towards retirement leave wird.Mehr long as two decades, the Meyers have Kahlenberg houses and people boarded. In her thoughtful care here were kindergarten groups and school classes, theater and music ensemble, church groups, or about the participants of Girl Culture Festival and the International Youth Exchanges as a guest.
"There goes one's heart. As you know, what you work ", he recalls the days when he and his wife had a full house. To this day he has to laugh when he dusted the need to observe him with: "You, Mr. Meyer," or "Mansion Herbert" responded because they did not want the word warden come across his lips. Meyer wants to see the hostel on the Kahlenberg, a public re-use. With the introduction of a club for children and youth work, he could live well, was with the marketing of a residence, as he has decided the council majority now nicht.Meyers workplace that perhaps offers the most beautiful clock view of the city, as 120 years ago in November 1890 tourist restaurant opened. Up to 4,000 guests were in the interior and on the terrace.
brought From 1897 the electric tram, the excursionists to Kahlenberg, which had transformed the Mülheim Improvement Society with the help of the city in the 1880s from a quarry in a green oasis. But Mülheims water sports knew the beer cellar of the Kahlenberg restaurants worth as a meeting place to schätzen.Der trip to Kahlenberg himself. Because in 1909 there was also the Bismarck tower. And by 1957 could be translated from there by ferry to the other side Saarn Ruhr. In addition, there were 1902-1924, when Mülheim was a garrison town yet, a military bathhouse, but are also used by the Mülheim civilians konnte.Doch accommodated as in 1944 the Wehrmacht on Bald Mountain, was concluded with Lustig and tasty on the Ruhr.
The Army followed in 1945, the British Army of the Rhine, which was released by her quarters at the Kahlenberg in 1946, at least in part, and on weekends as a tourist restaurant for Mülheim. But the Operation is not profitable and was announced in 1951 eingestellt.Damals it in the building administration considerations, to demolish the old house on Bald Mountain, before the then youth councilor and later town clerk Bernhard Witthaus 1952, to enforce it, then set up a youth hostel. That his idea was well received, the 65 000 visitors were from 50 countries, which could accommodate up to 1962 Kahlenberg. Not only the guests but also the craftsmen were in the old hostel and off. 1986 town and country had to invest 1.8 million marks in the modernization of the hostel.
Even if the youth hostel with 70 beds in 16 rooms now also a bar and a farmhouse, two large common rooms, a barbecue area, a rooftop terrace and a fireplace was, could keep up the nice hostel in recent years no longer with the modern standards of comfort. The score dropped from 8674 in 2004 to 6119 last year. This was precisely the impetus for the city to think of the sale of the hostel and operating costs of around EUR 132 000 under the budgetary consolidation has einzusparen.Dabei farewell to the youth hostel at the Kahlenberg many faces. One of them was the last children's theater performances, there on 28 November with "Christmas in the Country Mice" and the homemade cookies of Meyers on the stage went.
This text was published on 20 November 2010 in the NRZ
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