At the Kurpark 7

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Villa Am Kurpark 7 (2012)

The building Am Kurpark 7 is a villa in the center of Bonn city district Bad Godesberg was built in the mid-19th century. It is located in the Alt-Godesberg district across from the Redoute . The villa stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa was probably built in the mid-19th century as a summer residence for the Privy Councilor of Commerce Eduard Joest (1821-1892), a Cologne sugar manufacturer and owner of the company Carl Joest & Sons founded by his father . The earliest evidence of the property can be found in a hiking guide by the Cologne writer Ernst Weyden from 1864, in which the neighboring villas of Eduard and his brother Julius Joest (Am Kurpark 5) are mentioned. The building files did not begin until the villa was built in 1877, when Eduard Joest submitted a building application for a rear kitchen extension to the villa. Edward's son Wilhelm Joest(1852–1897), who became a scientist and explorer , grew up in the villa and later settled in the neighboring house (Am Kurpark 6) originally built for Godesberg's mayor Johann Hubert Mathonet (1793 / 95–1879). Eduard Joest lived in the villa until at least 1891.

In 1898 a Baron Charles Lucius Paul van der Borch planned the construction of a single-storey intermediate building between houses 6 and 7 based on a design by the architect and government master builder Heinrich Plange , which, however, was never implemented. By 1903, the property had passed into the possession of the Godesberg building contractor Theodor Wilhelm Düren , who, according to his building application, had the house rebuilt and the rear annex expanded that year. Under the same owner in 1913 for the client Rudolf Diel, a merchant from Godesberg, the installation of a sloping corner connection between the front and rear buildings for the purpose of expanding a closet. In 1919 the villa was converted into a two-family house. Theodor Wilhelm Düren appeared again as client and entrepreneur. In the course of the renovation, the ceilings were partially replaced by solid reinforced concrete ceilings , door and window openings were broken or bricked up, a massive reinforced concrete staircase was installed in the rear building, the previous entrance, kitchen and servant rooms were divided into living rooms by inserting partition walls and the central entrance area closed rebuilt and closed in its current form. The property served as a residence for the owner and a tenant until the end of World War II in 1945, when it was confiscated by American occupation forces .

In 1951 the Kingdom of Spain rented the villa in order to set up the residence of its ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn. Within Bad Godesberg, it was the closest location to the Redoute for a diplomatic mission where diplomatic receptions were held regularly. After 1980, renovations were carried out on the inside and outside of the building for the Spanish embassy - without a building permit - including the construction of a single-storey extension behind the left rear side of the building. In February 1986, the Spanish King Juan Carlos I was received in the residence during his state visit to Germany. In 1981 and 1991 the house was awarded in the context of facade competitions of the city of Bonn. The villa was entered in the city ​​of Bonn's list of monuments on December 2, 1997.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the Spanish embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 (→ Spanish embassy in Berlin ). A law firm became a new user of the villa, and since 2014 it has also been home to the office of a cultural association.

literature

  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 78-79.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ to 1874 Rosenallee 7 , 1874–1889 Alleestraße 7 and 1889–1978 Kaiserstraße 7 ( entry in the Bonn street cadastre)
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 3350
  3. ↑ Ernst Weyden: Godesberg, the Siebengebirge, and their surroundings: portrayed for foreigners and local people, with natural historical references. With 1 steel engraving and 1 map , 2nd edition, T. Habicht, 1864 ( Online Google Books ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Federal City of Bonn , Lower Monument Authority : List of Monuments of the City of Bonn , October 8, 1997
  5. ^ Entry in the Bonn street cadastre
  6. ^ Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV (Ed.); Martin Ammermüller : Walk through Alt-Godesberg , Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2012, p. 12.
  7. ↑ Address book for Godesberg, Plittersdorf and Rüngsdorf: together with a street sketch , Strauss, Godesberg 1890, p. 13
  8. ↑ a b Our domicile and its history ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Bad Godesberger Unternehmer Talks
  9. ↑ a b c Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberg messages. 2nd Edition. Bonn 2011, p. 39/40.
  10. ^ Helmut Schmidt : A stroke of luck for Spain , Die Zeit , February 21, 1986
  11. ^ ABK moves into former residence , General-Anzeiger, March 15, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 53.2 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 3.5 ″  E