Edelhoff pen

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Edelhoff-Stift, street side (2015)
Rear or park side (2013)

The Edelhoff-Stift (actually RH Edelhoff-Stift ) is a late Classicist villa in Bad Honnef , a town in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , which was built around 1870. It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The Edelhoff-Stift is located in the northern area of ​​the city center on the main street (house number 8) north of the street Am Spitzenbach and on the eastern edge of the Reitersdorf park , which houses the ruins of Reitersdorf Castle . The Hölterhoffstift is located diagonally to the northeast .

history

The villa was built around 1870 as the summer residence of the Düsseldorf couple Matthias Heinrich (1823–1916) and Charlotte Göring, who were involved in the Protestant parish of Honnefs - the former as church master from 1876. After Göring's death, who was made an honorary citizen of the city during his lifetime, among other things due to a triple donation to the poor administration , the property passed into the possession of the industrialist Richard Heinrich Edelhoff, previously owner of a neighboring villa. Edelhoff left or donated the building to his hometown Remscheid to set up a rest home for children, which was operated there until the Second World War . The northern part of the villa suffered considerable war damage.

Since 1964 the villa, now called Edelhoff-Stift , has been owned by the city of Bad Honnef. After a renovation in 1976/1977, it was located in the immediate vicinity of the Drachenfels Clinic, which opened in 1969, as the so-called house of the spa guest with a treatment center. The health clinic was closed in 1983 and converted into a privately owned retirement home by 1984 , the operating company also acquired the villa and used it as an administration building after a renewed renovation. The entry of the villa in the list of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef took place on August 11, 1983. Since 2009 the Edelhoff-Stift has been for sale as a result of the retirement home operator's move. At the beginning of 2014, the park, which was previously open to the public, was fenced in for reasons of traffic safety .

architecture

The Edelhoff-Stift is a two-storey, detached villa in the forms of the Italian Renaissance and Classicism . The front of the villa comprises seven axes and a central projection , which is closed off by a triangular gable . The building has a pilaster structure on the upper floor , as well as a meander frieze and eaves . Most of the interior fittings, including the staircase, stucco ceilings and parquet floors, have been preserved in their original state. There is a fountain in front of the entrance .

Web links

Commons : Edelhoff pen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 32
  2. ↑ Street sign for the street Am Spitzenbach , Wikimedia Commons
  3. ↑ a b c J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Publishing house of the St. Sebastianus Schützenverein, Honnef 1925 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  4. ↑ Roswitha Oschmann: Kur-shady times . In: Homeland and history association “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV : 150 years of the city of Bad Honnef . Edition Blattwelt, Niederhofen 2012, ISBN 978-3-936256-50-5 , pp. 491–517 (here: p. 497).
  5. ↑ The owner has the Edelhoffstift fenced in , General-Anzeiger , January 11, 2014
  6. ^ Heinz Firmenich (revised by Karl Günter Werber ): City of Bad Honnef (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz : Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 12). 3rd, revised edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-541-1 , p. 21.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 0.2 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 10 ″  E