Adenauervilla

Adenauervilla, aerial photo (2016)

The Adenauervilla (also known as Adenauerhaus or in the vernacular "Camp Konrad" - as an ironic allusion to Camp David ) is a ruined building that was built in 1955/1956 in the Eifler Kammerwald.

history

Adenauervilla in the Kammerwald (2012)

Adenauervilla, vertical view (2016)

The building, which was built in the shell but never finished, was intended to serve Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for his private purposes; the building application was submitted on July 11, 1955 as "Project LS / 36/55" with the designation "New construction of a hunting, weekend and guest house near Duppach" at the district office of Prüm . The construction is located between the municipalities of Duppach and Steffeln , where in 1955 the construction of the lavish villa with a total of 600 square meters of living space began on a 2000 square meter plot of land in the Kammerwald , which supposedly should even have a bomb-proof air raid shelter and a helicopter landing pad on the roof. However, that turned out to be a myth.

The applicant for the building, which was approved two weeks later, was AEG's chairman, Friedrich Spennrath , and the Cologne-based architect Horst Mathow was in charge of the building . The construction plans came from the architect Heribert Multhaupt , who had been married to Lotte Adenauer, daughter of the Federal Chancellor, since 1954 and was therefore Adenauer's son-in-law. When these connections were publicly discussed in the press with suspicion of corruption , the construction project was discontinued in March 1956 and subsequently never resumed.

In the mid-1980s, a private person bought the property with the shell. The property has been privately owned since then. Since the ruin is now in acute danger of collapsing, the further handling of the building is being discussed. In December 2018 it should be auctioned on Ebay . Shortly after the auction began on December 24, 2018, Ebay took the ad offline because it did not meet the requirements for real estate sales. The auction was later discontinued and the villa was sold by other means against the highest bid. On January 22nd, 2019 it was announced that an entrepreneur from the greater Cologne area had been awarded the contract for a price of just over 35,000 euros.

The ruinous remains of the Adenauervilla are hidden, overgrown on all sides and now fenced in for security reasons in the Kammerwald near Duppach, they can be reached via forest paths.