Bellevue house
| Bellevue house | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Dorneburg, Conradsburg, Villa Bellevue | |
| Creation time : | around 1690 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Place: | Kleve | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 46 '44.7 " N , 6 ° 8' 22.5" E | |
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Haus Bellevue is a former aristocratic estate in Kleve . The main features of the noble house came from the years 1690–1705 and was located on Nassauer Allee 49, an important main access road, and the heights above the Kermisdahl , an oxbow lake of the Rhine . In February 1945, at the end of the Second World War , the house was destroyed.
location
At the end of the pleasure garden, which is approaching the Prinzenhof and which was expanded by the Klever governor, Johann Moritz von Nassau (governor from 1647 to 1679), the Klever council family Schriever built a representative house in the style of Dutch classicism on a spacious and representative property in 1685 a south-facing garden. In 1708, the Brandenburg State Minister Johann Conrad von Strünckede (1670–1742) acquired the property as a gift from his father-in-law Albrecht Georg von Hüchtenbruck . He named this house Dorneburg , named after a knight residence in Eickel that belonged to his family . After his death the property in Conradsburg or the v. Strünckede'sche Haus was renamed and given by the widow to Major General von Quadt in 1752. This in turn immediately sold the property on.
In addition to the permanent house within a large garden, there were various outbuildings. Since one had a wonderful view over the city and the lowlands from here, the house was renamed Bellevue very soon after the acquisition of the property (before October 1752) by the Barons von Spaen .
King Friedrich II. Of Prussia traveled to Kleve twice during his reign and each time he chose the Bellevue House as his place of residence. In 1763 he met Voltaire here for their second meeting.
On August 7, 1765, the property was so badly affected by heavy rain that the entire slope slipped, the river bed of the Kermisdahl was reduced by half and only through great efforts saved the building from destruction and those that had passed the house until then public roads from Kleve to Flack (= area, located just before the Kiek in de Pott lookout point ) and down to Kermisdahl were destroyed. The grounds of the two streets were then awarded to the property as compensation for the lost areas.
In 1791 the then Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz wrote :
“ When dinner was over, we took a breath of fresh air under a pretty linden tree, and soon afterwards we and our friends made our way to their country house, which, as I have already said here, is called Bellevue, but it still has never a country house received such a name, which was truer and more appropriate to the situation.
The view is full of beauty. When we got there, I was surprised by the elegance with which Mrs van Spaen's rooms were furnished; all in a completely new taste and extremely cheerful. We stayed only a few moments in the drawing room to have tea there; afterwards we went into the garden, where we had prospects, divine, truly divine. We climbed mountains, and finally we came to a wood that also belonged to those gentlemen, and there was wonderful fresh air ... "
In the 19th century the owners changed frequently. Before 1846, two plots of land to the north were acquired in order to enlarge the garden here as well.
In 1887 the industrial family Hiby acquired the property, now called Villa Bellevue, bought additional properties and operated there a. a. a nursery with 25 greenhouses for their own needs. however, further purchases failed.
In the chaos of war at the end of the Second World War, the house and garden were destroyed on February 7, 1945. In its place, parts of the Kleve district administration were built.
Residents
Hans Hiby (* July 5, 1913; † June 26, 2000) a German industrialist, hobby geologist and discoverer of a mussel crab species was born in the Bellevue house. Here he built up the geological collection of the Hiby-Werth family, which is exhibited today as a geological collection in the Schwanenburg zu Kleve.
literature
- Ursula Geisselbrecht-Capecki : The Bellevue. 18th century pearl in Kleve . (Exhibition in the Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve, from June 26 to July 24, 1994), Städt. Museum Haus Koekkoek , 1994, ISBN 978-3-9800289-4-3 .
Web links
- House Bellevue with many pictures on http://www.heimat-kleve.de/
- Summary of the book Die Bellevue on http://www.heimat-kleve.de (PDF file; 529 kB)
- Inscription board 16 of the Moritz-von-Nassau Park at www.kermisdahl-wetering.de (PDF file; 1.10 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ January 4, 1708. Wilhelm Kohl , documents from the Gartrop Palace archive . Cologne 1890 p. 151, No. 556, ISBN 3-7927-0551-6
- ↑ Home Kleve. Here incorrectly called Thorn Castle ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2009 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.
- ↑ Duisburg intelligence sheet no. XVL
- ↑ Why Voltaire-Weg to Moyland Castle - from Kleve? July 25, 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 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.
- ^ Friedrich Char: History of the Duchy of Cleve . Kleve 1845, p. 254, ( online )
- ↑ Voltaire-Weg zu Kleve July 25, 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gustav von Velsen: The city of Cleve, its closest and more distant surroundings, then and now . Cleve 1846, p. 163 ( online )
- ^ Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, later Queen of Prussia: The journey to the Lower Rhine and Holland in 1791 . Published by Paul Hartig, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-4220-6010-4 ( Online ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ↑ Gustav von Velsen: The city of Cleve, its closest and more distant surroundings, then and now . Cleve 1846, p. 164.
- ↑ Neue Rhein Zeitung. Kleve June 24, 2007
- ↑ Rheinische Post March 13, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
