Düsseldorfer Hof

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The Düsseldorfer Hof is a hotel complex in Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , which in its current form dates back to the end of the 19th century. It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The Düsseldorfer Hof is on Rheinallee (house numbers 14/15), the city's promenade along the Rhine , between the old town streets Altenberger Gasse in the north and Tomberger Straße in the south, which lead up to the main street .

history

Düsseldorfer Hof in the 1880s

The origin of the hotel with a similar purpose lay in a baroque guest house and city residence built in 1763–1767 under Abbot Hermann Kneusgen of the Heisterbach Abbey ("Heisterbacher Hof"), which was abolished in 1803 and whose abbots last lived there. The hotel, which opened around 1826 and appears for the first time in 1839 under the name Düsseldorfer Hof , took over this guest house and the adjoining Maltese Commandery from 1737. At the end of the 19th century, the hotel was extensively expanded: the building of the former Heisterbacher Hof A higher roof was added in 1892, the older commandery was demolished in 1896 and a five-storey, neo-baroque new building was built by the Godesberg construction company Theodor Wilhelm Düren by 1898 . Since then, the Düsseldorfer Hof has also had a glazed viewing porch .

Since the war year 1916 , the Düsseldorfer Hof served hospital purposes . On December 1, 1926, Adolf Hitler gave a lecture on “German economic and social policy” to business leaders from the Rhineland. During the Second World War , Troisdorf Dynamit AG rented the hotel from June 1941 at the latest and set up a girls' home there, in which initially around 200 German women and a number of Belgian, and as of summer 1942 also Dutch, French and civilian workers from the Balkans - a total of almost 400 foreigners - and from mid-April 1942 about 20 men were temporarily housed. The camp was abandoned in March 1943 at the earliest and the workers presumably moved to a larger barrack camp in Troisdorf. As a result of a heavy air raid on Cologne on 28 June 1943, a part was in Düsselder courtyard housed 600 by ship to Koenigswinter transported homeless, including pilots injured from the Ruhr and Bremen , and by the end of August 1943 from here to Saxony and Lower Silesia relocated . Subsequently, the hotel with 150 to 200 beds at the time, together with other facilities in Königswinter, was cleared by order of the Reich Defense Commissioner for the Gau Cologne-Aachen and rebuilt in September 1943 to accommodate part of the Lindenburg hospital (university hospital) that had been bombed in Cologne . Towards the end of the war, the tympanum with the coat of arms of Heisterbach Abbey was damaged by soldiers of the United States Army during target practice from the opposite side of the Rhine. In May 1949 the re-opening took place of the hotel, but already closed in mid-August and on 29 August of the year for the building located in British High Commission - have their place until the end of 1949 based in Cologne-Wahn - took confiscated was. She had renovation work carried out in the hotel, which should significantly increase the standard of living, among other things by installing bathrooms . Instead of accommodating and entertaining civil servants and the military in high positions , as intended, the Düsseldorfer Hof ultimately served as accommodation for the administrative staff, but was not fully utilized. In 1951 the city of Königswinter acquired the hotel and it was reopened on December 31st.

In 1988, the Düsseldorfer Hof was rebuilt, gutted and, apart from the ground floor of the old building (restaurant), divided into condominiums , with the veranda also being demolished. The last renovation of the facade took place in 1999/2000. In terms of urban history , the Düsseldorfer Hof is one of a series of four to five-story hotel buildings that have been built as palace hotels on the Königswinterer Rhine front since the end of the 19th century, giving them a metropolitan character. The building was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on June 4, 1985.

architecture

Quarry stone wall with gate

The former hotel complex consists of two buildings on a raised terrace that is accessible from Rheinallee via a staircase. The former “Heisterbacher Hof”, which is closer to Rheinallee, is a three-storey, originally two-storey plastered building built using Latit vom Stenzelberg with a hipped mansard roof and seven axes in baroque shapes. The central axis is highlighted by two balconies and a triangular gable showing the (heavily destroyed) coat of arms of the former Heisterbach Abbey and the year of construction (1764). The throats are in relief decorated grape motifs corner pilaster strips frame the edges of buildings. The five-storey, seven-axis new building from 1896 in neo-baroque forms is set far back and has a central axis with a curved roof bay that is emphasized by risalit-like projection. The facade is characterized by numerous balconies with wrought-iron bars. The property is separated from Altenberger Gasse by a high stone wall with a gate.

Below the Düsseldorfer Hof is a larger wine cellar , the so-called “Heisterbacher Keller”.

literature

Web links

Commons : Düsseldorfer Hof  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Christoph Keller: City cadastre, loss area quarters and zoning in Königswinter . In: Le projet Planarch 2: archéologie et aménagement du territoire (= Cahiers de l'urbanisme. Volume 8 ), Editions Mardaga, 2007, p. 77.
  3. ↑ Horstheider man : Godesberger industrial history I . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 48 (2010), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2011, pp. 96-134 (here: p. 127 ).
  4. ↑ Herbert Menden: Königswinter in old views. Volume 2, European Library, Zaltbommel 1981, Fig. 21
  5. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 131 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  6. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein: Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 560, 564, 565, 583/584 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  7. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein: Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 601, 602 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  8. ↑ Horst-Dieter Küsters: Konrad Adenauer paid him great respect , General-Anzeiger , October 14, 2006
  9. ↑ Caren Langer: "Winetre" has treasures from all eras , General-Anzeiger, September 8, 2005
  10. ^ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , p. 64; 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 , pp. 77-85.
  11. ^ Jens Krüger: The financing of the federal capital Bonn . In: Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin , Volume 106, Verlag Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 42
  12. ↑ The history of the Siebengebirge region at a glance , Heimatverein Siebengebirge eV
  13. ^ Beautification Association for the Siebengebirge (ed.): Naturpark-Echo des VVS , 13th year, No. 1, April 2013, p. 5.
  14. ↑ Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter . In: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / monuments in the Rhineland ). tape 23 , no. 5 . Rheinland-Verl., Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 104 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 30.3 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 28.1"  E