Gut Kaisersruh
Gut Kaisersruh is a listed former courtyard north of Aachen . It is located on the federal highway 57 in the direction of Würselen , to whose present urban area it belongs. Gut Kaisersruh has the number A51 / P on the Würselen monument list . Large parts of the complex remained in ruins for a long time , but the property has been extensively restored since 2018.
History of the property
The courtyard, initially known as the “Mauenhof”, was probably acquired in the early 19th century by the canon Ludwig von Fisenne (1768–1865) from the wealthy Rhenish-Walloon von Fisenne family. He had a new mansion built in the classical style and a park in the English style on the property in the courtyard . After his death, his nephew and spinning mill owner Ludwig Eugen von Fisenne (1810-1892) inherited the property. Since he too remained without children, he now assigned Gut Kaisersruh to his nephew Pieter Maria George von Fisenne (1837–1914). However, since he moved to the province of South Holland for professional reasons, he sold Kaisersruh to the Aachen cloth manufacturer Alfred Nellessen (1838–1902).
For the first time on maps from 1846, buildings of the estate can be seen. They can be seen even better on the maps of the Prussian land survey from 1895 and 1910. There is a farm on the south side - the only part of the property that has been intact and used for several decades. Between 1904 and 1905 Georg Nellessen (1875–1948), the son of Alfred Nellessen, had a neo-baroque extension built on the back. At the beginning of 1971 the community of heirs of the Nellessen family wanted to set up an upscale restaurant with a hotel on the estate and make the park accessible to the public. Official requirements prevented this, however, and years of legal dispute did nothing to change that. The property was no longer inhabited and used, looting and vandalism caused the first destruction, and the effects of the weather caused the property to deteriorate over the next few decades. Since then, Gut Kaisersruh only existed as a ruin until around 2016.
As early as the 1870s, the estate received a railway connection via the Kaisersruh stop 800 meters to the northwest on the Aachen North – Jülich line. It was also taken out of service in 1973.
Origin of the name "Gut Kaisersruh"
On the occasion of the Monarchs' Congress in Aachen in 1818 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars , the Russian Tsar Alexander I was a guest of Ludwig Freiherr von Fisenne in the manor house of the court, which has since been referred to as "Gut Kaisersruh".
Description of the plant
The earlier structure and design of the property are described as follows:
“The front side of the Kaisersruh residential building facing Aachener Strasse is three-story with three window axes . The central window axis was designed as a risalit with a triangular gable , but the latter collapsed in 1999.
The narrow sides of the house are divided into two axes, here as on the main facade there are pilaster frames . A surrounding cornice is inserted between the ground floor, which is decorated with plaster tapes, and the upper floors .
Originally the house had a hip roof with a belvedere . In front of the main entrance, which is located in the middle of the facade, there is a portico above Doric columns with a balcony above it, which is framed by iron bars. On the south side there is a narrow extension, which is clearly behind the line of the street facade. Nothing of the (sic!) Valuable interior of the building has been preserved.
The neo-baroque extension built in 1904/1905 on the west and rear of the mansion was built on a multi-part floor plan with a polygonal bay window that faces the coach house . The architectural design of the extension stands out clearly from the classical main building, because the forms borrowed from the Baroque are richer; the windows on the ground floor close with round shapes, the windows on the upper floor are decorated with stucco arches and tendril ornaments above the lintels. There is no third floor (as in the main house), but a lined mansard roof above the first floor. The strip plaster from the ground floor of the main house and the cornice above have also been guided around the extension. "
Efforts to restore and modernize the buildings
The efforts of the chairman of the community of heirs, mine director Albert Vahle, as well as plans for the use and renovation of the facility in the past decades could not be implemented, the buildings continued to deteriorate. Since the 1990s, some monument protection regulations have also been relaxed in order to be able to tear down crumbling building fabric. At the beginning of March 2016 it became known that the Aachen entrepreneur Franko Neumetzler would rebuild the estate and turn it into an office property.
The extensive restoration according to old plans was completed in 2018.
Web links
- Topic articles Gut Kaisersruh on the Euregio family book (via link Kaiser Alexander's rest near Aachen )
Individual evidence
- ^ PJ Dieter Wynands: City of Würselen . Ed .: Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (= Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 290). Neusser Druckerei u. Verl., Neuss 1984, ISBN 3-88094-464-4 , p. 18 .
- ^ André Joost: Kaisersruh operations center. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Betriebsstellearchiv. André Joost, accessed April 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Ludwig von Fisenne (* 1769, † 1865), member of the Aachen cathedral chapter.
- ↑ Gut Kaisersruh near Aachen in the German Digital Library : Members of the Prussian aristocracy were also guests in later times - this is how the Prussian Princess Luise , later Grand Duchess of Baden, was named for the year 1856 .
- ↑ a b Tobias Böhm, Harald Poguntke, Andreas Schmidt: Monument protection - history of the manor Gut Kaisersruh. In: Project work of the Rheinische Akademie Cologne . Tobias Böhm, March 2, 2016, accessed April 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Georg Pinzek: Kaisersruh: New opportunity for office buildings. In: Aachener Nachrichten . August 1, 2013, accessed April 24, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 23.8 " N , 6 ° 6 ′ 40.4" E