Ernst Moritz Arndt House (Bonn)

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Aerial photograph (2018)
Front facade of the villa in 2015
Inscriptions on the house
The rear facade to the small garden; Photo around 1900

The Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus in Bonn 's Südstadt district was built for the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt .

The building from the 19th century is the oldest Rhine villa in Bonn and is used today as a branch of the Bonn City Museum . It is located at Adenauerallee 79, around 50 meters from the banks of the Rhine . The villa is a listed building .

history

Ernst Moritz Arndt had the villa built from 1819 in a wine-growing area outside the city walls of the time. The client was appointed professor of modern history at the newly founded and nearby Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn in 1818 and in the same year acquired two vineyards on a hill directly on the Rhine. The Royal Prussian Building Inspector Friedrich Waesemann was hired as the architect. In 1820 the Arndt family moved in. Arndt lived in the villa until his death in 1860. Since 1867 the building has been owned by the city of Bonn.

The late Classicist villa is located on a roughly 6000 square meter, rectangular plot of land that extends from Adenauerallee to Rheinuferstraße (here: Rathenauufer ); the villa is located at the east end of the park-like complex, above the Rhine. The building has a rectangular floor plan, it consists of two floors above ground and a high hipped roof . The front and rear façades are structured in five axes, and a three-axis risalit protrudes from the front and is crowned by a triangular gable . This gable can also be found on the back, but here without a risalit. On the north side of the villa is a single-storey farm and garage building, also with a hipped roof.

According to the builder, an inscription in the door cornice of the front facade refers to “a sweet spot” in Rügen's homeland. Presumably a small oak grove of the same name near Arndt's birthplace Groß Schoritz is meant.

"This house is in God's hands and it is called Lülo [.] God's peace and joy moves in with us [,] then happiness will be the gatekeeper"

Since 1989 the Bonn City Museum, which was founded in that year, has continued to use the villa for special exhibitions, concerts and readings.

museum

In addition to being used for events or exhibitions, the Arndt Villa is run as a museum. A room on the ground floor is furnished with furniture from the estate of Ernst Moritz Arndt; there are also several contemporary portraits of the poet. On the upper floor there is a Biedermeier-style facility based on the construction period. Ingrid Bodsch is in charge of the museum and the exhibitions .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • International artists in Bonn 1700–1860: Fine arts at the time of the Electors Joseph Clemens and Clemens August , September 1984, exhibition by the City Archives and the Scientific City Library of Bonn.
  • Jacob Wassermann (1873 to 1934): A Path as a German and a Jew , October to November 1984, exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, Städtische Kunstsammlung Bonn.
  • Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857): I was born with the revolution , July 1988, exhibition by the Eichendorff Society.
  • Various special exhibitions on Robert Schumann from Bonn since 1993: Robert Schumann and the Poets , Album for the Young , Clara and Robert Schumann: Contemporary Portraits , Clara Schumann (1996), An den Rhein, an den Rhein (2002), Between Poetry and Music: Robert Schumann - early and late (2006), Robert Schumann - life stations, places of residence and travel destinations (2010).
  • Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen (1797–1857): On the 150th anniversary of the death of the “Rheingräfin” , September to November 2007, exhibition by the Bonn City Museum
  • Wesendoncks in Bonn? The Wesendonck family portraits in the holdings of the Bonn City Museum. Wagner's muse and her family , October 2013 to February 2014, exhibition on Mathilde Wesendonck's family .
  • Murder in Bonn 150 years ago: The cook, the kings and the last German summer before Bismarck , May to August 2015, exhibition on German-English relations from the second half of the 19th century to the First World War.

literature

  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), pp. 5–16 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994) [Baugeschichte und Bauherren; not yet evaluated for this article].
  • Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, pp. 57-58 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994) [Architectural description; not yet evaluated for this article].

References and comments

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 3, number A 1924
  2. ↑ a b Information ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Rhineland Nature Park Association  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.naturpark-rheinland.de
  3. ^ Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Garten , website of the city of Bonn
  4. ↑ Rheinische Lebensbilder , Volume 7. Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde, Rheinland-Verlag, 1977, p. 98 (Snippet).
  5. ↑ Lülo Pomerania and on the Rhine. ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Der Rüganer - The newspaper for the island. Ernst Moritz Arndt Society, Groß Schoritz.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wild-east.de
  6. ↑ Michael Müller: The development of the Kurrheinischer Kreis in its connection with the Oberrheinischer Kreis in the 18th century , Volume 24 of: Mainzer Studies for Modern History , Peter Lang, 2008, ISBN 978-3-63158-2-220 , p. 105 .
  7. ↑ Ernst Loewy et al. a .: Newsletter: 1984 to 1993 with complete register. Society for Exile Research (ed.), Walter de Gruyter , 1995, ISBN 978-3-11095-9-109 , p. 41.
  8. ↑ Gerhard Rademacher: From Eichendorff to Bienek: Silesia as an open literary "province" - studies on the poetry of Silesian authors of the 19th and 20th centuries in a transregional context , Volume 9 from Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa Dortmund: Studies of the Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa at the University of Dortmund. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag , 1993, ISBN 978-3-44703-3-602 , p. 538.
  9. ↑ StadtMuseum Bonn: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus , www.schumann-portal.com
  10. ^ Bernhard Hartmann: “Wesendoncks in Bonn” - An exciting exhibition in the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus , October 11, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  11. ↑ Bernward Althoff: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus in Bonn: Special exhibition on the “Murder in Bonn 150 years ago”, May 19, 2015, Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger

See also

Web links

Commons : Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '44 "  N , 7 ° 6' 38.7"  E