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House recovery in Mönchengladbach

The recreation house is a building in the classicism style in Mönchengladbach .

It is located on the Abteiberg near the Hans-Jonas-Park and the Abteiberg Museum in the Gladbach district . The recreation house was built in 1861 at the instigation of the “Gesellschaft Recreation” founded in 1801 by merchants and entrepreneurs. The originally rectangular brick building was extended by a transverse wing in 1876. The building was partially destroyed by British bombing on January 31, 1943; Repair work only took place in certain areas until 1969. It was not until 1979 to 1981 that the building was repaired under the supervision of the State Conservatory Office. The north wing could no longer be saved and had to be demolished. Since then, the building has been used for festivities and events of various kinds. In 1983, the Recovery Company sold the house to the city of Mönchengladbach, which placed it under monument protection in 1984.

Monument description

On the Abteiberg, on Johann-Peter-Boelling-Platz, four-storey, representative public building with a former mezzanine attic and flat roof . To the right of the Fliescherberg street is an angled two-storey extension with a mezzanine floor .

The main body shows a two-tiered central projection to the west . The front of the risalit is structured on the first floor with three arched windows. The main entrance with columns and overhangs is on the ground floor , flanked by two tall rectangular windows . Three small windows are arranged on the mezzanine floor. The staggered part of the risalit is formed by a two-window group with round arches on the right and left in the basement and by a group of double windows with pilasters , overhangs and parapet decorations on the first floor . Two single windows on the left and right on the mezzanine floor. A heavy renaissance profile completes the roof overhang, structured by a variety of profiles and a beam head rhythm.

The front central risalit is crowned by an ornamental attica with balusters and a baroque central shell shape with an overport and garland decoration . The horizontal caesura of the main storey cornice is all around the building via the two-storey extension on the right with a mezzanine storey on the Fliescherberg street. This extension has a two-window group on all three floors to the west, with a round arch in the basement .

In the northern area of ​​the extension there is a right side elevation with a side entrance with a round arched door and a single window with a supraport design above it. Above it is the year 1808 and above it again a gable triangle . To the left of it a group of four windows, round arches on the basement, rectangular windows on the upper floor and almost square windows on the mezzanine floor. The entire basement is structured with heavy imitation natural stone bosses; the first floor and the mezzanine floor are made of smooth plaster. Only the window frames with parapet decorations and overhangs as well as horizontal cornices give the structure of the east facade.

After the building was shortened, the north facade was restructured to match the given canon of shapes. In the embossed basement of the north side, four arched windows, above a horizontal cornice with a meander pattern. Above that on the first floor there are four rectangular windows with cloaks and overhangs, above that on the mezzanine floor there are also four small, almost square window openings. On the right-hand side of the facades of both upper floors, the corridor structure of the interior use can be seen through a pilaster position.

The east facade is structured by a nine-window row on the first floor, the former hall, with mezzanine floor windows above. On the ground floor there is a restaurant extension in modern contemporary forms with a terrace in front of the original findings. Cast iron balustrades are arranged on the terrace between masonry pillars. From the central axis of the building, the exit from the restaurant leads to the garden axis via a two-winged flight of stairs . The remaining size of the garden is around 30 m long, with a medallion-shaped lawn in the middle and a pond . To the east, it ends in a terraced form by means of a retaining wall with a central access axis from the public park.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The old town and its old and new sights ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 13, 2010
  2. ^ Society recovery: 1861  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on March 13, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.erendung-mg.de
  3. ^ Society Recovery: 1943 ( Memento of July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 13, 2010
  4. ^ Society recovery: 1981  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on March 13, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.erendung-mg.de
  5. ^ Society recovery: 1983  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed on March 13, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.erendung-mg.de
  6. ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 433 kB) Status: November 16, 2018. City of Mönchengladbach, November 19, 2018, p. 31 , accessed on June 21, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 6.6 ″  E