Charlottenhof (food)

St. Altfrid Youth Education Center , formerly Charlottenhof House - 2008

St. Altfrid Church - 2008

The Charlottenhof was an entrepreneur's villa near Kettwig , now part of Essen . Since 1960, the outer bailey, which has been preserved in its basic form, and around five new buildings have been home to the St. Altfrid youth education center of the Essen diocese .

history

The entrepreneur and later convicted Nazi war criminal Friedrich Flick had the Charlottenhof built on the heights on the southern bank of the Ruhr, opposite Kettwig , in the 1920s. He commissioned the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg . It is said that Flick's wife Charlotte should not have liked the building. Or the family was forced, like many other industrialists in the Ruhr area during the Weimar Republic , to move to a safer place. Then Flick left the villa to the People's Welfare and later to the Todt Organization . The Ruhr staff sat here from 1943. In the Second World War , the building was almost completely destroyed.

Originally the main house of the villa was a two-story plastered building, in the middle of which there was a tower-like porch facing the Ruhr. The basic shape of the simple outer bailey, the farmyard, has been preserved to this day. A rectangular courtyard is located behind a tower-shaped gateway with single-storey building wings.

The Archdiocese of Cologne took over the facility in 1950 and gave it to the newly founded Diocese of Essen seven years later . The foundation walls of the castle were included in a new building in 1966/1967. The outer bailey received additional ward houses. With the help of sisters from Schuir, the diocese set up today's St. Altfrid youth education center . As a result, a church was built in front of the complex in 1977/1978, which was consecrated on October 31, 1981 by Bishop Franz Hengsbach .

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