Bayenthal Belt 15
The Bayenthalgürtel 15 building (also Haus Schröder ) is a villa in the Marienburg district of Cologne , which was built in 1906/07 and belongs to the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony . It stands as a monument under monument protection .
location
The villa is located on the south side of the Bayenthal belt ( Kreisstraße 12) at the corner of Unter den Ulmen on the northern border with the Bayenthal district , diagonally across from Villa Unter den Ulmen 96 . The bank of the Rhine is about 370 meters to the east.
history
The villa was built in 1906/07 for the client Heinrich Schröder, director of the A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bankverein , based on a design by the architect Eugen Fabricius in a construction period of around one and a half years. Fabricius and Schröder were related to one another. The first structural changes were made in 1937 under the direction of the architect Willy Balsam: the loggia on the upper floor was closed, the polygonal bay was redesigned and the pergola there was removed . In the 1930s, part of the property, until then about 110 m long and 60 m wide, was parceled out .
After the end of the war, Carl Jacob Burckhardt lived here during his visit to Cologne and set the building a literary monument in his correspondence. By 1952 at the latest, the villa became the seat of the offices of the diplomatic mission of the Swiss Confederation in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn , which was previously located in the Villa Goethestrasse 66 (also in Marienburg), which is now used as a residence . The mission initially had the status of a legation , from 1957 that of an embassy . Switzerland was also the owner of the office building. In 1977 the embassy moved from Bayenthalgürtel 15 to Bonn, the previous office building was sold (→ Embassy of Switzerland (Bonn) ). The new owner of the property then planned to demolish the villa, which was prevented after a public discussion. From 1981 to 1984, the villa was divided into apartments as part of a renovation while retaining the main living rooms. Today, a wine distributor, an advertising agency, a digital consulting company and the company Steuerereule "Die Lohnsteuerberater" eV are based here.
The villa was entered in the city of Cologne's list of monuments on June 30, 1981.
architecture
In its original functional structure, the villa consists of a main building with the stately living area and an angled service wing as well as a free-standing garage and chauffeur's house , to which a gate on the street side creates a transition to the inner courtyard . Stylistically , with its numerous risalits , gables , bay windows and verandas as well as a variety of building materials ( Ruhr sandstone , Palatinate sandstone, half-timbered , Terranova plaster ) elements of the ( German ) Renaissance , the late Art Nouveau and the English country house style . Building regulations as well as the nature of the terrain had led to a compact design of the villa. A large hall (hall), which has been preserved to this day and contains a wooden staircase , served as the central living space .
The original garden was divided into three parts: it consisted of an English landscape garden , partly designed in baroque style - closed by a pavilion -, a rose garden - equipped with a stone pavilion on the street corner - and a vegetable garden .
"On closer inspection, one discovers the skillful, for the time still quite rare conversion of the English country house, which was considered progressive, into a" historically German "architecture, and not the usual" historically English "architecture."
literature
- Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb . (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume I, pp. 114–118.
- Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-2012-0 , pp. 122–126.
- Bernd Haunfelder (Ed.): From Adenauer's vicinity. The political correspondence of the Swiss Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany 1956–1963 . In the series Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland . Quaderni di Dodis , Volume 2. DDS, Bern 2012, p. 81 ( ISBN 978-3-906051-04-8 - pdf, ISBN 978-3-906051-05-5 - print, ISBN 978-3-906051-06 -2 –epub, ISBN 978-3-906051-07-9 - mobi, doi : 10.5907 / Q2 )
Web links
- Text of the protection of the city conservator of Cologne for the Villa Bayenthalgürtel 15 on picture book Cologne
- Residential complex of the former Swiss embassy , Beckmann Architekten
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, number A 722
- ^ Address book of the federal capital Bonn 1952/53 , JF Carthaus, Bonn 1953, p. 540 .
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Finance (Ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1094
- ↑ Markus Schmitz, Bernd Haunfelder: Humanity and Diplomacy: Switzerland in Cologne 1940-1949 , Verlag Aschendorff, 2001, p. 123
- ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly on the construction of embassy buildings in Bonn-Bad Godesberg of September 4, 1974 , Federal Gazette , October 7, 1974, volume 126, Volume II, No. 40.
- ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development.
- ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa suburb and its architectural development .
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 17.9 " N , 6 ° 58 ′ 27.4" E