Mantels garden shed
The Mantels garden house - also known as the Kerstenscher Pavillon - is a baroque garden pavilion designed by the Aachen builder Johann Joseph Couven , today located on the southeast slope of the Lousberg . The garden house is one of the three traditional Couvens garden houses in Aachen, which also include the Nuellens garden house (today in the Burtscheider Kurpark ) and the Pastor garden house (Franzstraße 24), which was demolished in 1888 .
Building history
The Mantels garden house was originally built by Couven as a garden house in the garden of the patrician house at Annuntiatenbach 20, which was designed in 1737 for the Aachen cloth dyer Nikolaus Mantels. While the nine-axis main house was not built by Couven for unknown reasons, Couven built a garden house in 1740 in the morphologically structured garden with a double staircase in front and numerous ornamental grilles. Couven originally planned a much more elaborate garden facade with columns and pilasters , but this was not implemented. A two-flight flight of stairs was worked into a parapet wall, which, provided with an artistic railing, delimited the courtyard from the garden and decorated with a wall fountain in between.
In addition to the actual garden room, the pavilion itself had a basement and an attic; a staircase made of marble leads to the recessed, higher entrance to the garden room. The pavilion has slightly trapezoidal dimensions, with a width of 5.51 m or 5.72 m and a length of 10.52 m. Next to the front entrance door there are two smaller doors, behind which there is a storage room and access via a spiral staircase to the top floor.
The formerly oak-paneled garden room is no longer preserved on site. Between the windows, high mirrors were originally installed above the small console tables with marble tops to improve the lighting in the room. A marble fireplace surround is now in the Green Salon of the Couven Museum on the Hühnermarkt. An allegorical representation of Zeus in a carved wooden frame, originally hung over the fireplace, was also in the Green Room of the Couven Museum translocated . Formerly small paintings adorned the interior above the mirror frame. While the two double-winged outer doors with the carved, openwork skylights , which formerly led to the outside, were integrated into the ballroom of the Couven Museum today, the single-winged doors with the allegorical representations in the overhangs are no longer preserved.
The plans for the interior construction of the pavilion are largely lost today and exist e.g. In part only as redraws by Joseph Buchkremer . Individual parts of the original interior are exhibited today in the Couven Museum.
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the city administration of Aachen endeavored to take possession of the still preserved couven works and to preserve them. In addition to the purchase of paneling , chimneys, among other things, from the Haus zum Horn (Jakobstraße 24), the von Coelsschen house (Hartmannstraße 11) and the Guaitaschen house (Rosstraße 48), the garden pavilion and the associated outside stairs, ornamental railings and fountain bowl from the former were also successful Owner August Kersten to acquire. Couven had used the given height difference between the courtyard and the garden of the property on the Annuntiatenbach extremely skilfully for his entire facility: an extremely artistic lattice crowned the parapet wall to effectively delimit the lower courtyard from the garden. Before that, a staircase with a wall fountain was built to shape the wall surface and to provide access to the garden. The pavilion itself extended far into the courtyard. A system of steps leading into a deep entrance niche to the higher entrance door bridged the height difference.
Translocation and current use
In order to rebuild all of this elsewhere on the Lousberg, a place with roughly the same morphological height profile had to be found. The small slope on the southeastern Belvedere plateau, where the Johann Joseph Couvens garden pavilion was rebuilt, proved to be ideal. Lord Mayor Philipp Veltman suggested to the city councilors' assembly the above-mentioned location on Lousberg. The small garden house with an ornate grid, outside staircase and fountain bowl was integrated perfectly harmoniously into the green spaces on the south side of the Lousberg in the years 1906–1907. There it is best known under the name Kerstenscher Pavillon, which goes back to its last owner .
Today the pavilion is used as the seat and event location of the Lousberg Society.
Monument protection
In 1977 the Mantels garden house was entered in the list of monuments by the Rhineland State Conservator with the following characteristics:
"Former Belongs to Annuntiatenbach 20. 1737 (JJ Couven), moved to the present location in 1906/07; plastered garden house with mansard roof and stone window frames, equipment partly in the Couven Museum, a side ramp with double flight of stairs and ornamental grille from 1767 "
literature
- Eduard Adenaw: A Couvenscher garden pavilion. In: Aachener Kunstblätter. II / III, Aachen 1908, p. 40ff.
- Dorothée Hugot: Lousberg and Salvatorberg. Self-published, Aachen 2003.
Web links
- Information from the Lousberg Society u. a. to the Kerstenschen Pavillon ( Memento from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katarina Köver: Johann Joseph Couven: an architect of the 18th century between the Meuse and the Rhine. Special volume 10, Aachener Kunstblätter, Aachen 1983, pp. 74f.
- ^ Anke Kappler: Johann Joseph Couven (1701–1763): Architectural drafts for the city, the nobility and the church. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462-278-0 , p. 79 (workbook of the Rhenish preservation of monuments, 73)
- ^ Joseph Buchkremer: The architects Johann Joseph and Jakob Couven. In: Journal d. Aachen History Association. 17, Aachen 1896, fig. 21–24.
- ^ Eduard Adenaw: Aachen construction. In: Mitt. D. Rhine. Association for Monument Preservation and Heritage Protection. Year 7, Issue 3, Düsseldorf 1913, p. 214.
- ^ Karl-Heinz Dannert: Die Nizza-Allee: A reading book about a beautiful street in Aachen. Lousberg Society eV series, Volume 1, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020864-5 , p. 229.
- ↑ "State Conservator Rhineland. List of monuments. 1.1 Aachen city center with Frankenberger Viertel. ”With the assistance of Hans Königs , arr. v. Volker Osteneck. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, p. 50.
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 4.4 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 59.3" E