House Heisterberg

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Heisterberg House, former main building of the Rhineland Youth Court (2013)

The former Heisterberg house (formerly Pfaffenröttchen ) is an ensemble of buildings near Niederdollendorf , a district of the city of Königswinter in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , with listed parts from the 18th to 20th centuries. From 1953 to 2004 it was run under the name Jugendhof Rheinland as the conference center of the Rhineland Regional Association. In 2017 it was reopened as a privately owned hotel and guest house.

location

The ensemble of Haus Heisterberg is located southeast of Niederdollendorf and south of Oberdollendorf at a good 130  m above sea level. NHN on the so-called Kellerberg , the north-western section of the Petersberg . The district of Niederdollendorf, in the area of which the property is located, extends far predominantly on the western side of the cut of the federal highway 42 and the Siebengebirgsbahn . It can be reached from there via an approximately 700 m long access road, which also leads past the vineyards of the Kellerberg.

history

Lookout tower at the former Heisterberg house

The Heisterberg house goes back to a winery of the Heisterbach monastery , which was called Pfaffenröttchen or Schreihof . It was first mentioned in 1329 as "Paffinroyt" (= clearing by priests of the Heisterbach Monastery) and at that time comprised a vineyard area of ​​two acres . From 1447 the winery was exempt from the tithe obligation that previously existed in relation to Vilich Abbey . However, according to an Oberdollendorfer Weistum from 1450, the Heisterbach Abbey had to give the local riflemen half an ohm annually from the income of the Pfaffenrötchen, which in Niederdollendorf was also obliged to give the pastor and riflemen a total of four quarters of wine every year. The tax exemption of the property was confirmed in 1661 by the judge of the Löwenburg office . Until the beginning of the 19th century it belonged to the Honschaft , then to the community of Niederdollendorf.

In 1803, with the abolition of Heisterbach Abbey due to the secularization of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the winery became the property of the Duchy of Berg . At that time, Pfaffenröttchen had a residential house and a farm building with 12 acres and 127 Cologne rods , including over 6 acres of vineyards, over 2 acres of arable land and one acre each of “tree gardens and meadows” and “rambushes”. In 1823 the court was sold by the Prussian state to the privy councilor Rehfues, then curator of Bonn University . After Rehfues died here on his country estate in 1843, his son lived in the property until 1860. During this time, the tenant of the winery also ran a restaurant in Pfaffenröttchen , and the German writer Ernst Moritz Arndt was a frequent guest of the Rehfues family .

In 1860 the Pfaffenröttchen became the property of the Wuppertal manufacturer Albert H. Caron. In the same year he renamed it "Haus Heisterberg" and had it expanded into a castle-like property with a manor house in 1871 and 1872 according to designs by the Hanoverian architects Edwin Oppler and Ferdinand Schorbach . A mausoleum , a rose garden (garden architect: Joseph Clemens Weyhe ) and a round, now 10.5 meter high observation tower were also built . In 1885 the Pfaffenrötchen residential area in the Niederdollendorf community had 13 residents in one residential building, and in 1905 it was listed as Heisterberg with 14 residents in two residential buildings. At the beginning of the 20th century, a garden pavilion was added as a half-timbered construction , and further extensions and alterations were made in the 1920s. Since 1919 Haus Heisterberg was owned by the industrialist Ottmar Edwin Strauss , who had the vineyard area enlarged.

Heisterberg vineyards

In 1939, the provincial administration of the Rhine Province acquired the winery in order to accommodate a reforming home there. The staff and residents of the institute cultivated the vineyards until the Rhineland Regional Council became the new owner in 1953 . While the vineyards were taken over by the Oberdollendorf winegrowers' association , the property itself was converted into an educational facility for the state youth welfare office (from 1958 “Jugendhof Rheinland”). In 1957 the remains of the manor house from the end of the 19th century, which had already been badly damaged in World War II, had to give way to the new use of the site . Modern functional buildings (named after geographical names from the Siebengebirge, whereby the new main building was again named Haus Heisterberg ) were built on the site for the Jugendhof Rheinland, and in 1967 he also took over the management of the vineyards. In the 1970s, land consolidation was carried out , but this could not prevent viticulture from being discontinued in 1983 due to lack of profitability. In 2002 the Heisterberg vineyard , part of the Petersberg vineyard , was planted again .

In 2004, the operation of the Rhineland Youth Farm was discontinued, which was recently in deficit and served as a conference center for the Rhineland Regional Association with 70 beds and 14 employees. It was advertised for sale, and negotiations were long unsuccessful. In June 2015, a long lease agreement was signed between the Rhineland Regional Council and the Austrian Jufa Jugend & Familiengästehäuser Holding GmbH. The company plans to use it as a hotel and guest house, especially for young people and families, with 62 beds. Initially, however, the former youth courtyard served as emergency accommodation for refugees from the beginning of November 2015 to the end of August 2016. The start-up as a hotel and guest house was planned for mid-August 2017 after renovation and renovation work started in February 2017 and expected to cost five million euros. In September 2017 the “Jufa Hotel” was officially opened.

On the site of the former Jugendhofs the stand Mausoleum , the gazebo, the observation tower from 1871, one way or - votive from 1825 and a monument (baroque female figure) from the 18th century as monuments under preservation . The mausoleum was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on January 13, 1986, and that of other buildings on the former Rhineland Youth Farm on October 4, 1989.

literature

Web links

Commons : Haus Heisterberg  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province , 5th volume, Bonn 1898, p. 315.
  2. ↑ Peter Eilitz: Life and work of the royal. Hanoverian building councilor Edwin Oppler. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter, New Series , Volume 25 (1971), Issue 3/4, p. 195.
  3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII (Province of Rhineland). Berlin 1888, p. 118. ( Online digitalis.uni-koeln.de )
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII (Rhine Province). Berlin 1909, p. 151.
  5. ↑ Jugendhof Rheinland comes to the test . In: General-Anzeiger of July 1, 2004
  6. ↑ Nobody wants to buy the youth farm . In: General-Anzeiger from August 19, 2011
  7. ^ Austrians take over Jugendhof Rheinland - long lease contract signed with LVR . In: General-Anzeiger of July 16, 2015
  8. ↑ Jugendhof is to become winter quarters , General-Anzeiger , October 15, 2015
  9. ↑ Former old people's home becomes accommodation , General-Anzeiger , October 31, 2015
  10. ↑ The Jugendhof has had its day as emergency accommodation , General-Anzeiger , September 15, 2016
  11. ↑ The conference venue will become a hotel , General-Anzeiger , April 28, 2017
  12. ↑ JUFA Hotel Königswinter / Bonn , JUFA Hotels
  13. ↑ Elena Sebening: New accommodation offer - New Jufa Hotel in Königswinter officially opened. In: General-Anzeiger online. September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2017 .
  14. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , numbers A 52 , A 110

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 40 ″  E