Adam Stegerwald House

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Adam Stegerwald House (2013)

The Adam-Stegerwald-Haus is a former conference center in Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on the main street (house numbers 487/489) in the south of the old town and is a listed building as a historical monument .

history

Villa Barthels (1906)

The Adam-Stegerwald-Haus goes back to a villa of the Barmer Kommerzienrat Philipp II Barthels (1838–1906) from the early 20th century, based on a design by the Honnef architect Ottomar Stein . In 1924 she acquired Jakob Kaiser , politicians of the Center Party , the Catholic social club working well as a conference center as well as mother and child - rest home ( "Our Home", also from the German Trade Union Federation used). In 1927/28 an annex was added to the villa by demolishing existing buildings. In 1930/31 the "Königswinterer Kreis" was founded here as an association of Catholic social ethicists and social scientists who worked out a socio-political concept for political Catholicism in Germany. In the time of National Socialism (1933-1945) the property was confiscated from May 1933 for the German Labor Front (DAF) and served under the name Robert-Ley -Schule as one of initially two Prussian state leadership schools , which for 16 districts in the west of the German Reich was responsible. Its inauguration took place on July 24th, 1933 in the presence of DAF director Robert Ley , since the beginning of 1935 it has been called "Reichsschulungsburg" and has increasingly been used as a pure Gauführerschule of the DAF. With a capacity of 75 participants (as of 1940), the building had classrooms and meeting rooms as well as reading rooms, a library and a smoking room; the rooms were comparable with a first class hotel in terms of their furnishings. In 1937, the Hotel Mattern was added to a second regional driving school ("Königswinter II") in Königswinter.

After the end of the Second World War , the former leadership school was initially owned by the German Federation of Trade Unions . The conference center has had its current name in honor of the co-founder of the Christian trade unions Adam Stegerwald since autumn 1948, when it was restored to its original purpose as well as for all-German goals. At that time, the CDU / CSU faction of the Parliamentary Council, which met in Bonn from September 1948, was housed here. After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, the house was the residence of Jakob Kaiser, now Federal Minister for All-German Issues . It became the seat and property of the Jakob Kaiser Foundation e. V. (successor to the Arbeiterwohl Association ), who rented it to the CDU social committees from 1950 at the latest (until the move to the Koenigswinter workers' center ). Since 1950 the house has been the venue for the Königswinter Conference of the German-English Society . Since 2002 the building has also been the headquarters of the Karl Arnold Foundation, which was previously located in Bad Godesberg . It served both foundations as a conference and guest house as well as a public hotel. At the end of 2013, the Adam-Stegerwald-Haus was closed as a conference center and seat of both foundations. In the summer of 2014, the Jakob Kaiser Foundation sold the property to a project developer , and from the end of 2015 to probably autumn 2018 it will be renovated and converted into a nursing home.

The building was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on July 26, 1988.

architecture

The villa (Hauptstrasse 489) from 1901 is a three-storey plastered building with side elevations , the top of which is formed by a hipped roof . The second floor was originally made of half-timbered houses . On the south side of the villa there is a winter garden constructed in wood , which dates back to 1904. The stairwell has a lead-glazed skylight from 1912. The new building (Hauptstrasse 487) from the 1920s is also three-story, it has an open staircase clad with wooden panels. The windows have subsequently been enlarged.

literature

Web links

Commons : Adam-Stegerwald-Haus  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Designation also in the German basic map and property map
  2. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 73
  3. ^ A b Horst Heidermann : The Wuppertal Villas and Apartments - Searching for Traces on the Rhine . In: Geschichte im Wuppertal , vol. 20, 2011, pp. 31/32. ( online PDF ; 1.9 MB)
  4. ↑ Ittenbach Virtual Local History Museum ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 231 ff . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  6. ↑ Helmut Vogt : "Need quarters for me, driver and car": The working environment of the Parliamentary Council in Bonn 1948/49 . In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 57/58, 2008, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 442-470 (here: p. 449).
  7. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 108.
  8. ↑ Scratches on the cash register. Why the social committees have to develop their own sources of income , Die Zeit , January 20, 1978
  9. ↑ Adam-Stegerwald-Haus in Königswinter closes , General-Anzeiger , September 3, 2013
  10. ^ "Kaiser Palais" for seniors , General-Anzeiger , September 1, 2014
  11. ↑ Conversion to the Palais Kaiser begins , General-Anzeiger , December 8, 2015
  12. ↑ The Kaiser-Palais in Königswinter is completed , General-Anzeiger , December 8, 2017

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 43.5 ″  E