Good Melb

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Aerial photograph (2017)
Aerial photograph (2017)
The Melbweg, which leads here over the Melbbrücke with the listed "administrator's house" behind it ( Melbweg 9 )

The Good Melb (also: estate Melb or house Melb ) is located on Melbweg 42 in Bonn district Venusberg . It is located on the edge of the nature-protected Melbe Valley and, together with the Melbbrücke and the former caretaker's house, was placed under a preservation order.

Today, parts of the Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation at the University of Bonn are housed in the manor house. Surrounding land and forest areas are used by the institute for research and teaching.

history

A manor had existed in the Melbe valley since the middle of the 19th century. The farm was built around 1845. At around the same time, a brick bridge was built over the Melbbach valley. For the year 1882, Wilhelm Gabriel (1839-1910) is named as the owner of the Melb estate. The size of the property is given as 38.44 hectares . In 1881, an existing manor house was redesigned by Gabriel into today's manor house. The rectangular building, located on the hillside and facing northwest, has a basement , a ground floor and an expanded hipped mansard roof . On the park side, a pronounced central projection rises up with a third floor at the height of the mansard roof and a small mansard roof of its own, giving the impression of a tower. The building is divided into nine window axes, three of which are on the risalits. Ornate tile work and a wooden staircase inside have been preserved to this day. The mansion has 35 rooms. The farmyard is to the southeast.

Milk and meat production

In 1899 Otto Boeddinghaus jun. from Elberfeld , son of the entrepreneur ( Wilhelm Boeddinghaus & Co. ) Otto Boeddinghaus sen. (1845–1874), the property which at that time comprised an area of ​​285 acres (unit) , which included 12 acres of forest and 5 acres of park. Boeddinghaus paid 350,000 marks and invested a further 250,000 marks in repair and expansion work. A hexagonal Chinese style poultry house is no longer preserved. Boeddinghaus later bought another 30 acres for 45,000 marks.

Farmer Boeddingshaus's attempt to establish a profitable dairy and meat industry in Melbtal failed. He then tried to sell the property to the city of Bonn, which, however, did not have sufficient financial resources. So he leased his estate to the Werhahn family.

City of Bonn as owner

Even before the Second World War , plans began to relocate the Bonn University clinics from the city center (site of today 's Beethoven Hall ) to the Venusberg. On February 1, 1937, the medical faculty accepted the Melbtal as the future location of the clinics and asked for the property to be purchased and developed. On December 1, 1938, the city of Bonn bought 40 hectares from Boeddinghaus at a price of 489,000 marks as building site for the new clinics. The information on the extent of the acquired land varies; another source points to 180 acres. Before and during the war, however, construction did not begin; the estate remained leased to the Werhahns until 1944. In October 1942, on the other hand, newspapers and duplicate holdings in the storage and attic rooms of the university library were brought to the estate. The newspapers were stacked here and were no longer visible until the end of the war.

From 1950 the city began to convert and expand the no longer needed flak barracks on the Venusberg as a new location for the clinics. The Melb manor house has been used by the university since the end of the war, in 1952 it was assigned to research and teaching, in the same year the "Institute for Agricultural Zoology and Apiculture" was set up under the university professor Gottfried Goetze. Joseph Beuys was one of the institute's visitors . Gut Melb is now run as a landscape garden.

The property has been empty since 2016. There are currently no current plans on the part of the city (as of May 2020).

Bee research

The university operates a teaching and experimental beekeeping facility at Gut Melb . It was inaugurated on April 2, 1953. Master beekeeper Dete Papendieck is currently in charge . In beekeeping, beekeepers (animal keepers; beekeeping) are trained as a recognized agricultural profession .

The approximately 100 bee colonies in the apiary are kept for research purposes. Every year 50 to 70 offshoots and young colonies are created and around 150 queens are raised.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 42, number A 3849
  2. ↑ a b c d e Horst Heidermann , Der Wuppertal Villas and Apartments - Search for traces on the Rhine , 2011, online PDF , p. 14, on the website of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Department Wuppertal eV
  3. ↑ a b c Tina Stommel, Gut Melb offers science you can touch , August 12, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  4. ^ Bettina Köhl, dry feet over the Engelbach , August 6, 2011, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  5. ^ German gender book (Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien), Volume 173 ( Westphalian Gender Book ), 1976, p. 358
  6. ↑ Bernhard Berzheim, Ippendorf: from poor farming village to preferred Bonn residence , Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein (Ed.), Der Verein, 1990 (Snippet)
  7. ^ A Wilhelm Werhahn, son of Edmund Werhahn (* 1848) and Therese Christina Schmitz (1849–1917), married to Maria Bonserath, is referred to as a resident of the Melb family, according to Descendants (total) of Andreas Theodor Werhahn , October 20, 2010, website of Hans Pettelkau (www.pettelkau.info)
  8. ↑ History of the University Hospital on the website of the UKB - University Hospital Bonn
  9. ↑ Ralf Forsbach, The Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn in the “Third Reich” , ISBN 978-3-486-57989-5 , Oldenbourg Verlag , 2006, p. 448
  10. ^ In Memoriam Walther Holtzmann , in: Alma mater , issues 17–24, Bouvier Verlag , 1965, p. 32 (Snippet)
  11. ↑ Wolfenbütteler Notes on Book History , Volumes 31–33, Herzog August Bibliothek, E. Hauswedell., 2006, p. 80 (Snippet)
  12. ↑ History of the house and the professorship “Agricultural and Production Ecology ” based on: Festschrift 50 Years of the Working Group of Institutes for Bee Research: 1949–1999 , website of Agricultural and Production Ecology (APOEK) of the University of Bonn
  13. ^ Wulf-Peter Schroeder, inventory: Region Bonn is a garden paradise , July 29, 2010, Kölnische Rundschau
  14. ↑ Stefan Hermes: Large property in Bonn: Gut Melb in Ippendorf has been falling into disrepair for four years. Retrieved May 14, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Bienenwelt , Volumes 4–6, L. Stocker, 1962, p. 6 (Snippet)
  16. ↑ Apprenticeship and experimental beekeeping ( memento of the original from July 31, 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. , Website of the Chair for Agricultural and Production Ecology (APOEK), University of Bonn  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apoek.uni-bonn.de

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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 33.3 "  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 20.6"  E