Hellbach House

Hunting Lodge (Hellbach House)

The Haus Hellbach hunting lodge is located at Antrim-Drive 51 in the Hauptquartier district , the former NATO headquarters, in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the field markings . It was built in 1901. The building was entered under No. A 042 on January 10, 1996 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

Haus Hellbach was built in 1901, expanded in 1910 and, according to the inscription in the tower, is called a hunting lodge . The original building is two-story, half-timbered on a high brick basement. The far forward gable roof with decorative aisle and eaves made of wood is gently sloping.

A straight staircase at right angles leads to the front door. The grooved windows of the basement, cut into segments, are at floor level. The other windows are in focus of flat wooden decorative frame and shutters provided. In 1910 the building was extended to the southwest. Two axes were pulled forward to the stair connection so that the entrance is now in a deep niche. In addition, underlining the prestigious character of the building, the south-west corner was pulled forward and raised on a three-storey tower-like basis.

A pointed, sloped hipped roof crowns the now formative tower. The new wing is rough plastered. In the details (basement, windows, shutters) it adapts to the slightly older original building. The interior appears subdued due to the rich use of dark wood. A three-flight platform staircase, led around a spacious hall , connects the center of the house.

Stone floor slabs with an oak leaf motif , wooden flat balusters as banisters , two transversely mounted , ribbon-like, high-mounted lattice windows provide the floorboard lighting. To the right a corridor leads to the representative living area, which essentially consists of two connecting rooms; Wood paneling, wooden ceilings, wall cupboards and two set wooden pillars that mark the two rooms determine the impression of the room. A wide, grooved sliding window in the risalit makes the representation room clear from the outside. The other walls of the ground floor rooms are also often paneled with wood and fitted with wall cupboards. The upper floor consists mainly of bedrooms and the bathroom .

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

Individual evidence

• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 23.6 "  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 30.7"  E