Half-timbered house Herrenstraße 27
The house, built in 1797, used to be a tannery and later became a residential building. The beautiful half-timbered house was rebuilt after the catastrophic fire of 1810. The keystone contains the letters CFR, below which is a decoration (probably a narrow garland of leaves with two crossed, barely recognizable tool symbols, possibly a dye works) and the year 1797.
On 09.02.1876, the master tanner Carl Friedrich Ficker intended to add a vault to his house to store leather goods. In 1876, he wanted to enlarge his workshop building and add a section to it, as well as build a tool shed onto his house and a wash house in the rear building. In 1883, he asked to be allowed to add a shower to the rear building. On March 31, 1908, he submitted an application to extend the lavatory facilities. As the owner had died in the meantime, this project was not implemented.
In 1911, his widow Martha Ficker submitted another application to extend the lavatory facilities. The construction drawings were drawn up by draughtsman Simon. In July of that year, she submitted an application for structural alterations and the installation of a furnace for a boiler in the rear building that was to be demolished. On 23.11.1920, the master carpenter Emil Glänzel asks for permission to set up some woodworking machines on the property. Documents show a certificate for Mrs. Johanna Martha verw. Ficker for a mortgage to repair the house.
On 12.07.1939, the master painter Emil Drechsel applied to buy the house, but was refused. During the war in 1945, an application was made to create an emergency apartment for evacuees in the attic, but there is no evidence that this was implemented. In 1983, the house was thoroughly reconstructed.
According to a letter from the Stollberg town council dated July 16, 1984, this building was to be used as a district museum or local history room, including storage rooms for the local chronicler and chronicler collective as well as an apartment for the head of administration.
