Nuellens garden shed
The Nuellens garden house , also known as the Nuellens pavilion , is a baroque garden pavilion designed by the Aachen builder Johann Joseph Couven in 1740. Today it is located on the edge of the Burtscheid spa park and is a listed building .
Building history
The construction of the garden house for the garden of his city villa at the former Fockengraben, today's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz No. 6, which the copper master, wine merchant and multiple Aachen mayor Gerlach Maw (1622-1681) had built for representative purposes in the 17th century, was commissioned by the Aachen cloth maker and new owner of the house Johann Heupgen. Almost 100 years later, around 1840, the house was converted into a city hotel by the new owner, Laurenz Nuellens, while retaining the gardens, which was now called "Hotel Nuellens". It became one of the leading hotels in Aachen and Hans Christian Andersen , Franz Liszt and Wilkie Collins, among others, stayed here . At the side end of the rear wing, the remaining garden pavilion was optically ajar, which formed a lateral end with the elongated garden terrace.
Following the closure of the hotel in 1927, the Nuellens pavilion by its last owner, the family Dremel, the city of Aachen was given that these for House Fey at Aachen Seilgraben no. 34 translocated which the city two years earlier by the impoverished owners Ignaz Fey had taken over. In addition, due to the expansion of Rochusstrasse behind Haus Fey, a large part of the rear garden and thus also the larger garden house that had previously been there had been lost. Furthermore, the acting Aachen museum director Felix Kuetgens was busy setting up the first Aachen Couven Museum in Haus Fey , to which the garden house as a couven building represented an ideal addition.
The Fey house was badly damaged by several bombing raids during World War II. Nevertheless, many components could be saved, including the garden house, which was initially preserved in a municipal depot. As part of a fundamental redesign of the entire Burtscheid spa facilities in 1961, the Nuellens garden house was included in the planning at the instigation of the Aachen city curator, Hans Königs , and finally at its current location on the edge of the spa park in the immediate vicinity of the “An der Rosenquelle” rehabilitation clinic rebuilt. The corresponding staircase from the garden of Haus Fey is still in the present garden of the Seilgraben 34 property.
Building description
The rectangular garden house is completely walled up with bricks except for the front. The four rounded corner edges of the building and the entire front are decorated with light blue stone decor. The three-axis front is defined in the middle by a risalit-like axis with the entrance door, which is flanked on both sides by a lattice window in historical shapes. The glass of the two door leaves as well as the continuous fighter window are also made of finely curved bars, which also corresponds to the couve era. In contrast, the pictures of the pavilion in the garden of the Hotel Nuellens only show simple windows with continuous skylights, obviously from the time of the renovation around 1840.
The garden house is closed at the top with a multi-stepped hipped roof , in which on the front side above the entrance axis a richly decorated cartridge with the coats of arms of the Heupgen family and his wife, a born von Meven, and a flat roof dormer in each of the two axes of the side windows are embedded with lattice windows. The roof cornice and gable top are carved from wood. The weather vane with the year 1750 must have been added later, since according to the building documents the garden house was built in 1740.
literature
- Richard Klapheck : The art of architecture on the Lower Rhine. Volume 2. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1916, pp. 114-116 ( digitized version ).
- Irmgard Mailandt: The Nuellens garden pavilion by the architect JJ Couven in the Burtscheid spa garden. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . New episode. Vol. 36, 1999, pp. 294-298.
- Bodo von Koppen: Old Aachen Gardens. Georgi-Verlag, Aachen 1987, ISBN 3-87248-049-9 , pp. 33, 34.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '57.9 " N , 6 ° 5' 49.6" E