House Birkhof

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House Birkhof, Bonner Landstrasse 119 (2015)

The Birkhof house was a villa in the Hahnwald district of Cologne , which was built in 1935/36. It was on Bonner Landstrasse (house number 119) immediately east of the Rodenkirchen junction on the 555 federal motorway . It was canceled in 2016/17.

history

The villa was built as a country house for the builder Alfons Mauser (1904–1986), a metal goods manufacturer, like numerous buildings in Hahnwald based on a design by the Cologne architect Theodor Merrill . His father, Hervey Cotton Merrill (1862–1953) worked as a garden architect . Two earlier plans by Merrill from the second half of the 1920s were incorporated into the design. At the time, it was documented and recognized in the specialist journal Moderne Bauformen . The house can be attributed to the first development phase of the Hahnwald villa colony.

In 1970 the Republic of Niger acquired the property and set up the residence of its ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn . As a result of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the embassy moved there in 2006. The previous residence has been empty since then, but was still owned by Niger. The Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection classified the building as a monument . The entry in the list of monuments of the city of Cologne has been applied for. The property was last (as of October 2015) for sale. It was canceled until September 2017.

architecture

The Birkhof house, receding significantly from the street at a distance of about 60 m, had a white brick facade . The west side of the property, which is particularly oriented towards English country houses, served as the garden facade, while the east side accommodated the entrance. In the place of the partly hall-like main living room, the former had a gabled risalit divided into twelve window openings .

literature

  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Villas in the south of Cologne. Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2488-3 , pp. 140/141.
  • 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. 104-105.

Web links

Commons : Haus Birkhof  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wolfram Hagspiel: Villas in the south of Cologne. Rodenkirchen, Sürth, Weiss and Hahnwald.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: March 1970, June 1970)
  4. ^ Monument of the month "Haus Birkhof" ( memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Kölner Wochenspiegel, April 25, 2012
  5. ↑ Monument of the Month April 2012 ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 97 kB), Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 2 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 27.6"  E