The impressively large and transverse building with the hipped roof on the left-hand side (Torstraße 7) is the ‘Johann-Dreher-Haus’ and was built in 1439 as the house of a castner.
An inn was first established here in 1602 (‘Oberwirth’) and from 1681 it was known as the ‘Schwarzer Adler’. The inn was run until 1845 and was owned for many years by the Dreher family, who played a very important role in the development of Creglingen. They also provided the mayor several times.
Johann Dreher, who became wealthy through trade with the Russian Tsar, spent his youth in this house and later became a respected owner of a trading house in Stettin. He had not forgotten his home town of Creglingen and the poverty that prevailed here, even when he was far away. A donation of 7700 guilders (which was an impressively high amount for the time) made it possible to build a poorhouse in 1824. Its upkeep, the payment of an annual allowance to the town doctor and the establishment and maintenance of a boys' school were also secured. Today, a memorial stone on a beautiful tree-covered hill - the Johannesberg above Creglingen - commemorates the town's generous benefactor.
Now walk a few steps down Torstraße again. The larger half-timbered house on the right-hand side of the street with the town archives is the next stop on the tour.