Felseck House

House Felseck (2013)

The house Felseck is a villa in Koenigswinter , a city in North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , built 1899th It lies on the northwest slope of the Drachenfels above the national highway 42 with the address Am Domstein 9. The villa stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

Felseck House (around 1907)

The house was built in 1899 on behalf of the Cologne businessman August Wirtz. In 1910, a gatehouse was added on what was then Magdalenenweg (in what is now federal highway 42 ). In 1924/25, after several changes of ownership, the building was given its present shape as part of an expansion and renovation. A gardener's house with stable and garage was also built. During the Second World War , from 1942 onwards, Haus Felseck served as alternative quarters for several construction companies from Cologne, which was increasingly affected by the Allied aerial warfare . In 1944/45 the porter's house and the gardener's house were destroyed by the effects of the war, and the main house also suffered considerable damage.

After the Second World War, the villa served the entrepreneur Adolf Grom, then director and board member of Phrix-Werke ( synthetic fiber umbrella company) in Hamburg , as the residence and business headquarters for the around 20 companies he owned, including Rheinische Zellwolle AG in Siegburg . In June 1948 Grom was arrested there due to the misappropriation of funds from the Phrix works during the collapse phase and its secret archive was secured. In 1952, Haus Felseck was the residence of the Dutch First Secretary of the Embassy, CH Van Brink, at the Embassy of the Netherlands, which was based in Bonn . It then served as the residence of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia until 1972 , the residence of the Indonesian ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany; at that time it was called Wisma Indonesia . On August 20, 1966, the ambassador at the time Loekman Hakim (* 1914) died in the house . Herbert Warnke, former General Manager of the German Road Safety Council in Bonn, has lived in the villa since around 1990 . Today it is an apartment building .

Haus Felseck was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on March 23, 1987.

architecture

overall view

The villa is located above Am Domstein street on a raised terrace. It is two-storey with a high basement and a developed mansard hipped roof and has three axes with a risalit-like central axis with a gabled house . A terrace with a balustrade is built in front of the Rhine . A single-storey extension with a viewing terrace extends to the south and a winter garden , the windows of which are closed with basket arches , to the north .

literature

Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 115.

Web links

Commons : Haus Felseck - Collection of Images

References and comments

↑ Designation in the German base map : Hs. Felseneck
↑ previously Rhöndorferstraße 21 and Magdalenenhof 21
↑ ^a ^b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 57
^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 601 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
↑ Life is so bitter , Der Spiegel , September 22, 1949
^ The clairvoyant questioned , Der Spiegel, September 2, 1953
^ Press and Information Office: Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1086
↑ Foreign Office : List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of September 1972, December 1972)
↑ Elwyn James Blattner, James Elwyn Blattner (eds.): Who's who in UAR and the Near East , Paul Barbey Press, 1955, p. 502.
↑ Alfian Jusuf Helmi: Diplomasi dari desa ke kota-kota dunia , Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1989, p. 229.
↑ Internationales Biographisches Archiv , 48/1966, November 21, 1966 ( Munzinger Biographie - Loekman Hakim )
↑ Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 30 , Schmidt-Römhild, 1991, p. 1454
↑ Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 32 , Schmidt-Römhild, 1993, p. 1432
↑ Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.)

50.66598 7.20133Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '57.5 " N , 7 ° 12' 4.8" E

[1] Designation in the German base map : Hs. Felseneck

[2] reviously Rhöndorferstraße 21 and Magdalenenhof 21

[Denkmalliste-3] List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 57

[4] Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 601 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).

[5] Life is so bitter , Der Spiegel , September 22, 1949

[6] The clairvoyant questioned , Der Spiegel, September 2, 1953

[7] Press and Information Office: Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1086

[8] Foreign Office : List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of September 1972, December 1972)

[9] Elwyn James Blattner, James Elwyn Blattner (eds.): Who's who in UAR and the Near East , Paul Barbey Press, 1955, p. 502.

[10] Alfian Jusuf Helmi: Diplomasi dari desa ke kota-kota dunia , Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 1989, p. 229.

[11] Internationales Biographisches Archiv , 48/1966, November 21, 1966 ( Munzinger Biographie - Loekman Hakim )

[12] Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 30 , Schmidt-Römhild, 1991, p. 1454

[13] Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. Volume 32 , Schmidt-Römhild, 1993, p. 1432

[Denkmaltopographie-14] Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.)