Goethestrasse 66 (Cologne)

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The Goethestrasse 66 building is a villa in the Marienburg district of Cologne , which was built between 1922 and 1924. It belongs to the villa colony Cologne-Marienburg and stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The villa is located in the middle of a 3000 m² park between Goethestrasse in the east and Eugen-Langen-Strasse in the west and north of Cologne's Südpark .

history

The villa was built between March 1922 and acceptance for use in January 1924 based on a design by the architect Theodor Merrill on behalf of the Cologne Reinsurance Company . It was intended as a service villa for the general manager of the company, at the time H. Gruenwald. Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann worked as a garden architect . In terms of style , the property - among the villas designed by Merrill in particular - can be assigned to the Anglo-American country style. At the time it was widely received in specialist publications, including in the magazines Moderne Bauformen and Deutsche Bauhütte , and can be counted among Merrill's most elaborate buildings. In 1937 he had the interior design redesigned . In 1943 the property was confiscated for the National Socialist People's Welfare in order to use it as the district administration Cologne-Aachen .

After the end of the war, the Cologne Consulate General of Switzerland , previously temporarily located in Rhöndorf and Bad Godesberg, under the direction of Franz-Rudolf von Weiß , settled in the villa . After determining Bonn to the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949), the property was 1949/50 also home to the office of the diplomatic mission of Switzerland to the Allied High Commission . While the chancellery of the embassy was located in Villa Bayenthalgürtel 15 , also in Marienburg, until 1952 , Villa Goethestrasse 66 remained the residence of the Swiss embassy (from 1957 embassy ), the residence of the Swiss envoy and later ambassador . In 1959/60 the building received a single-storey wing extension on the north side. Even after the embassy office was relocated to Bonn in 1977 (→ Embassy of Switzerland (Bonn) ), the villa continued to be the residence of the Swiss embassy. With the relocation of the seat of government , the embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 , and in the same year the previous residence was sold privately by Switzerland. More recently (as of 2007) the property has been renovated with the aim of reconstructing the original state, whereby the wing extension was demolished and the gardens were also redesigned.

The villa was entered in the city ​​of Cologne's list of monuments on December 2, 1988.

architecture

The villa is two-storey, has seven axes on the rear garden side serving as a show side and has a total usable area of around 600 m². The street front is shaped as a brick facade structured with ashlar with a central semicircular stair tower . The main entrance is on the side and is framed in stone by an outside staircase . The hipped roof of the villa has a dwarf house and other dormers . One of the special features is the terrace that extends over the entire rear front and is accessible from all main rooms on the ground floor. The main characteristic of the villa is its stately appearance and the contrast between the stone (including light sandstone ) and the brickwork.

"[A] a perfect new creation like the old masters with an aristocratic character."

- Wolfram Hagspiel (2007)

literature

  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb . (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , pp. 250-252.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-2012-0 , pp. 79–86.
  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 76-77.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, number A 4752
  2. ↑ a b Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development.
  3. ^ National Socialist German Workers' Party: National Socialist Yearbook , Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, 1944, p. 240
  4. ↑ Ludger Kühnhardt: Expansion and deepening: the European Union in a new beginning . In: Writings of the Center for European Integration Research , Nomos, 2005, ISBN 978-3832910372 , p. 12.
  5. ^ Address book of the federal capital Bonn 1949/50 . In: City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 222.
  6. ↑ Swiss Monthly Hefts , Volume 77, Edition 1, Society of Swiss Monthly Hefts, 1997, p. 72
  7. ^ Dossier Berlin , Basler Zeitung , August 20, 1999
  8. ↑ De Graaff Bautenschutz GmbH - References ( Memento from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa suburb and its architectural development .

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 56 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 14.2"  E