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Scherdel’s Rest after the first city center renovations 1937

The region of Scherdel’s Rest lies in the present day city center. Until the 19th century this was still along Ludwigstraße in the upper city.

In the 20th century the main street to Rehau ran directly along the southern bank of the Pulschnitz. To Helmbrechts or to the Autobahn (highway) one could cross directly from here over the bridge that went over Karlstraße (photo below).

In the course of making it out of reach of flood in the 80’s there were many different plans as to how they could rearrange the center of our city. From this resulted the still relevant areas of our center. The Meadows parking area was laid out between 1986 and 1988. The pedestrian zone north of the Pulschnitz was ready in time for the city festival in September 1990 and was dedicated on November 15. In 1992 the construction of the 600 cubic meter rain basins on the south side of the Pulschnitz began. The newly designed above ground area was dedicated on July 27, 1994. At the same time the course of the Bundestraße (federal road) to Rehau was changed in this area.

A small park existed here for the first time during the first downtown redevelopment in 1936/37 instead of a property that Kirchenlamitzer Straße had to go around up until then. The taste of the time was sober, with trimmed linden trees over a gravel area and a few benches. (photo above right) The lindens fell victim to the newly built green park in 1994, since Scherdel’s Rest was supposed to be greener and larger. The small park laid out in 1937 was also often used by Münchberg barber Scherdel, when he had no clients and wanted a break. His business was located in the small house that stood on the left, next to the present day savings bank. Since barber Scherdel frequently rested on the park bench, the designation “Scherdel’s Rest” soon established itself in the vernacular. When the park had to be redesigned around the flood plains of the Pulschnitz the city decided on a tribute to Mr. Scherdel, who was still living at this time, and even donated a bench to rest. The large granite hemisphere shows the barber in the midst of waving hair with his scissors, as he is now resting (photo on the right in the text). On the opposite of the road to the east the lower mill stood at one time.