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Abattoir

The first building plans for the slaughterhouse go back to 1833 and were made by building inspector Jacob Westerfeld. A Prussian law from 1868 then required the subsequent communal operation of slaughterhouses and led to the establishment of the city commission in 1875 that dealt with this question. Since the question of location had not yet been answered at that time and the creation of a sewer system was seen as more urgent, the decision to build was not made until 1884. In the following years, the city acquired a plot on Urseler Straße, but the conflicts of interest were so problematic that ground was not broken until 1897. 1898 saw the “Communal decision regarding the slaughtering obligation in Homburg”, and a year later in 1899, the slaughterhouse was able to go into operation. It consisted of a residential building, an administration and restaurant building as well as the slaughterhouse, stalls and machine buildings. In the beginning, the slaughterhouse raised a lot of interest, and many municipal delegations that also wanted to set up slaughterhouses came to tour the site. However, the slaughterhouse was not a profitable institution, because many Homburg butchers, restaurateurs and hoteliers were able to fulfill their needs elsewhere. The first complaints about the smell arose when workers’ estates emerged on the newly built Feldbergstraße Road at the beginning of the 20th century. However, modernizations and expansions followed in 1925 and 1960, to fulfill the increasing hygiene standards. In 1982, it was closed, and the buildings were torn down.

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Building History

Construction

1897-1899

Conversion

1925, um 1960 (Modernisierungen)

Demolition

1982

Location

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Subject Area

Infrastructure

Funding

public

Keywords

Food production  

References

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Recommended Citation

„Abattoir“, in: Orte der Kur <https://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/odk/record/id/1074> (aufgerufen am 21.05.2026)