Remembrance of the former business world in Frenz
Whereas in the past it was taken for granted that the population in a village had one or even several shops to cater for their needs, this has no longer been the case, at least for Frenz, since the 1980s.
This information board is intended as a reminder of the business world in Frenz at that time.
Franz Dolfen/Karl Struck and Sons shop
Where the Roma (Mariotti) ice cream parlour has been located since January 1995, Franz and Vera Dolfen ran a self-service REWE grocery shop with an additional bakery from 1968 to 1993, which Franz Dolfen had taken over from Karl Struck.
The shop was built in 1968 by Anton-Rainer and Maria Esser, née Struck, and opened as early as autumn 1968.
Before that, however, and a little further up Burgstraße, the residents of the village could buy all their groceries and baked goods for their daily needs at the Struck department stores‘, which had been run by Karl Struck and his sons Peter and Ferdinand, as well as their daughter Käthe, since 1930, for many years until 1967.
From 1965, the shop traded under the name Struck – Esser.
In addition to the Struck department stores‘, there were two other shops in Oberstraße:
Notthoff shop (Oberstraße 19)
FFerdinand Notthoff was the owner of a grocery shop. At the same time, he was also the head of the village for the years from 1920 to 1930. His son Heinrich, and especially his daughter-in-law Gertrud, continued to run the business until the early 1970s.
Nowaczinski shop (Oberstraße 33)
The bakery and confectionery of Anton and Elisabeth Nowaczinski, who started their business in 1938/39 in the Notthoff shop, was located where there is no sign of a shop today until the mid-1980s.
The photo on the left, looking towards Oberstraße/Feldgasse, shows the shop at the front right in 1950, the photo on the right in the 1980s with Mrs Nowaczinski in the window.
Pelzer shop (Frenzer Driesch)
As far as the supply of the population in the Driesch district was concerned, it was served for many years by the shop of Christian Pelzer, who initially kept his shop in the premises of house no. 48 (today Hella Rehfisch).
After the war, his daughter, Margarethe Vogel, née Pelzer, took over his business activities in the newly built house No. 30 . Unfortunately, there is no picture from this time. Only the bricked-up entrance and the two windows on the left and right in a photograph taken at the end of the 1990s still bear witness to it. Later, the house was extensively renovated and rebuilt by Kristina Kurth, née Vogel, great-granddaughter of Christian Pelzer.
Colonial goods shop Klemm (Unterstraße 21) and hairdresser’s shop Albertz (Unterstraße 23)
Daniel and Christel Heinen Butcher’s Shop (Unterstraße 45)
From 6 June 1973 until his sudden death in April 1980, Daniel Heinen ran his own butcher’s shop with his wife Christel.
Even though there are no original photos of the following locations, they should not remain unmentioned.
Firstly, from the more recent past, there is Odilie Müller’s household goods shop, which she ran in the lower rooms of the house at Oberstraße 51 (now the home of Gerta and Günther Gillessen) from 1967 to 1973.
Secondly, the grocery shop of the Jewish siblings Jettchen and Adele Meyer existed in Burgstraße until their forced deportation to Theresienstadt in Poland in 1941.