The Weinzheimer Cellar

Originally Louis Haussmann Winery, subsequently Adolph Huesgen, now the Weinzheimer family.

An interesting wine cellar can be seen at the intersection of Obere Kaiserstraße and Bismarckstraße beneath the building commonly referred to as the 'Flüchtlingshaus'. Until after the First World War, this house was used as business premises - including storage rooms and a production area - by the Adolph Huesgen company.

Having fallen into disuse for a number of decades, it was subsequently converted into thirteen apartments for refugees in 1951. The cellar beneath as it appears today was built in 1883 by influential winegrower Louis Haussmann (Aacher Hof). Since his brothers Julius and Heinrich ran a wine bar with wine sales on Jägerstraße in Berlin, he also extended an existing smaller vault shortly after the train line to Bullay opened with the intention of exploiting the ease of shipping by rail.

Despite a reduction in its size necessitated by the building of Bismarckstraße, the small entry cellar still boasts an appealing triple vault supported by massive pillars. Behind this, however, may be found two long barrel vaults running parallel to each other which extend beneath the house and right out into the garden on the hill side of the property. Where a section of the right-hand end wall was sectioned off to make a small bottle store, the left side features a Romantic well chamber where fresh clear water constantly drips into a large basin.