Drachenfelsstrasse 30 (Königswinter)

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Former Westfalenhof, Drachenfelsstrasse 30 (2013)

The building at Drachenfelsstraße 30 (previously called Westfalenhof ) is a former hotel building in Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , which was built in 1897/98. It is located immediately west of the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine and is a listed building as a historical monument .

history

The building was created as a hotel with the name Westfälischer Hof for the baker and author Fritz Klein (1855–1922), who came from Castrop in Westphalia . The hotel had two large pavilions facing the railway line . Later on, the hotel-restaurant, eventually known as the Westfalenhof , was modified and added , in the course of which a curved glass veranda serving as a café terrace was placed in front of the building. After the Allied occupation of Königswinter by French troops as a result of the war in the Ruhr in spring 1923, they set up their local officers' quarters in the Westfalenhof. During the Second World War , the hotel, which had 50 beds at the time, was cleared in 1943, together with other facilities in Königswinter, by order of the Reich Defense Commissioner for the Cologne-Aachen district and rebuilt in September of this year to accommodate part of the Lindenburg hospital (university clinic) that had been bombed in Cologne .

In 1987 the former hotel building was gutted and divided into condominiums . The glass veranda in front of the building was demolished. The building was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on July 26, 1988.

architecture

Rooftop (bear with weather vane)

The building is a three - storey plastered villa - like structure . Stylistically , it can be attributed to the neo-renaissance - giving expression to the supraregional demands of contemporary foreign traffic buildings . The main facade facing Drachenfelsstrasse is characterized by a curved stepped gable that shows the Westphalian coat of arms and is crowned by a bear with a weather vane . The first floor is adorned with a canopy figure of a warrior.

“Designed in neo-renaissance decorative shapes, [the Westfalenhof] is reminiscent of urban villa buildings. Only the later, curved café terrace in front of the ground floor identified the building as a restaurant and hotel building at first glance. "

- Angelika Schyma (1992)

literature

Web links

Commons : Drachenfelsstraße 30  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 67
  2. ^ Fritz Klein in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  3. ↑ Elmar Heinen: Königswinter in old views. Volume 1, European Library, Zaltbommel 1976/1981 , DNB 997748389 , Fig. 69.
  4. ↑ Virtual Bridge Courtyard Museum ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ( archive link)
  5. ↑ Jens Klocksin : Separatists in the Rhineland: 70 years after the battle in the Siebengebirge - a look back . Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-89144-180-0 , p. 41-64 .
  6. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 602 . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007)
  7. ^ Hotel Westfalenhof ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ittenbach Virtual Local History Museum
  8. ↑ Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter (= monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.). P. 54.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 27.7 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 47.2"  E