House Herresberg

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House Herresberg, view from Bundesstrasse 9 (2014)
Herresberg House, view from the opposite bank of the Rhine (2013)
Herresberg House, aerial photo (2013)
House Herresberg with park from the west (2013)

Haus Herresberg is a villa in Remagen , a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler , which was built in the mid-19th century. It is located above the banks of the Rhine between Remagen city center and Oberwinter . The villa is a three-story stucco building and is including the associated park as a cultural monument under monument protection .

location

House Herre Berg (address: Kölner Straße 9) than solitaire less than 100 meters from the Rhine River at the entrance of the Taubentalbach carrying Calmuthtals to 70  m above sea level. NHN on the west side of Bundesstraße 9 , north of Marienfels Castle . As Herresberg , it forms a residential area within the Remagen district of the city of the same name.

history

The villa was built between 1855 and 1861 as a country residence for the builder Gustav Pfarrius (1800–1884), a poet who was teaching in Cologne at the time . The next owner was a pensioner from Barmen (today Wuppertal ), from whom it passed to the district court president Max Beitzke. In 1870 the villa was given a side wing, an "apple house" for storing food and other farm buildings were also built. In 1885 a 35 m long quarry stone lining wall was erected and in 1893 a shed was added. In the following period, a bowling alley and an iron-glass pavilion were added to a representative country house. In 1904 the main building was significantly expanded to include a south tower. At that time, the forester's house of the nearby Ernich Castle was located on the site . In the spring of 1917, the Cologne entrepreneur Arnold von Guilleaume , owner of the castle, and his wife Ella bought Haus Herresberg from the widow of the district court president for 400,000 Reichsmarks in order to expand their hunting grounds. They rented it to others, including the painter Fritz Westendorp (1867–1926). From 1932 to 1940 the property served as a children's sanatorium under a later tenant .

From 1942 to 1981 Haus Herresberg was again a residence of the Guilleaume family and finally also the seat of Otto Reichl Verlag Der Leuchter under the owner Herwart von Guilleaume. The property then stood empty and was left to decay. In 1993 the family sold it after protracted inheritance disputes to an office furniture dealer from Bonn , who had the first security measures carried out to preserve the building fabric . He intended to convert the villa for use as an embassy residence , management school or old people's home , but could no longer implement this due to financial difficulties. In 1999, a building materials dealer from Bad Breisig acquired the property in order to use it as a residence and the park for the exhibition of ancient fountains . The new owner started a long-term renovation.

Web links

Commons : Haus Herresberg  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Ahrweiler district. Mainz 2020, p. 57 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 4 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ↑ a b c Rathausverein Oberwinter: Herresberg (PDF)
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Peters: Remagen in old views , Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2004, p. 75
  5. ^ Guilleaume exhibition opened , General-Anzeiger , May 7, 2013
  6. ^ Address book of the German-speaking book trade , Booksellers Association, 1977, p. 127
  7. ^ Rescue for the Art Nouveau villa is in sight , Rhein-Zeitung , August 26, 1999
  8. ^ In Remagen, the rich find their refuge , Rhein-Zeitung, March 24, 2009

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 26.2 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 30.1 ″  E