Hotel “Zur Traube”
Suburb
The baroque Kirchheimbolander Vorstadt extended from the suburban tower [Standort 01] to today’s Edenborner Straße. In the 18th century, mainly craftsmen such as stove-makers, saddlers, carpenters, shoemakers, rope-makers and tinsmiths were based here in closed two-storey rows of houses, as well as supply businesses, especially bakers, grocers and butchers; there were also four inns.
In the following 19th century, the picture changed only slowly, but then rapidly in the 20th century. Today, the suburb is characterized by a structurally and functionally typical pedestrian zone spectrum of a central business world with a trend towards tertiarization.
This structural conversion took place mainly in the 1960/70s. The “Hotel zur Traube” was also converted into a commercial building. The brick façade, which had previously stood out in the streetscape, dated from 1895.
In the early 19th century, there was an inn here with old chestnut trees, where Ludwig Uhland and two travel companions stopped off in May 1803, “when the pretty sister of the landlady Miesel had just died”.
Did this inspire the 16-year-old Uhland to write his later much-praised Rhine poem?
Three boys were probably crossing the Rhine,
They stopped off at a woman’s inn.
“Mrs. Innkeeper, do you have good beer and wine?
Where does she have her beautiful little daughter?”
“My beer and wine are fresh and clear,
my little daughter lies on the deathbed.”
And when they entered the chamber,
there she lay in a black shrine.
The first, who threw back the veil
and looked at her with a sad expression:
“Oh, you are still alive, you beautiful maiden!
I would love you from this time.”
The second covered the veil
and turned away and wept:
“Oh, that you should lie on the bier!
I have loved you for so many years.”
The third immediately picked him up again
And kissed her on the mouth so pale:
“I always loved you, I still love you today
and will love you forever.”
“Three boys were probably crossing the Rhine”
Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862), a poet and literary researcher born in Tübingen, created an extensive body of poetic and scientific work. His poems were first published in 1815, making him one of the main representatives of the younger Romantic period.
The poem “Es zogen drei Burschen wohl über den Rhein.” is exemplary. Written in five verses, each with four four-height rhyming verses, it corresponds entirely to the folk song form, which is why it was also set to music by Friedrich Silcher (1796-1860) and Johann Gottfried Loewe (1796-1869). Its dissemination was greatly aided by its inclusion in the “Allgemeine Deutsche Kommersbuch” (collection of student songs). Its eventual popularization was mainly due to the Rhineland tourism boom that emerged in the 19th century.
Es zogen drei Burschen wohl über den Rhein
German folk song sung by Hermann Prey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPPC2Q565Ds
Duration: 3.01 minutes
The series of photographic postcards published around 1900 also contributed to the additional distribution.
