House of Humboldtstein

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House Humboldtstein, aerial view (2013)
House of Humboldtstein

The House Humboldt stone is a conference center of the workers' welfare in the north of Remagen hamlet Rolandseck in the district of Upper winter . It consists of a villa from the mid-19th century, which is a cultural monument under monument protection, and a modern extension.

location

House Humboldt stone is located in the north of Rolandseck on the border of districts Oberwinter and Rolandswerth to 82  m above sea level. NHN above the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine and Bundesstrasse 42 , around 30 m higher than the Rhine. It can be reached via the street Am Humboldtstein starting from the B 9 , which is also the postal address of the building.

history

The villa was built around 1850 as "Villa Rolandshöhe" for Adolph Deichmann (1811–1882), brother of the Cologne banker Wilhelm Ludwig Deichmann , based on a design by the Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner . The pianist and composer Clara Schumann , friend of Adolph's wife Julie, often lived in the property during her summer stays on the Rhine. It probably remained in the possession of the Deichmann-Schnitzler family until shortly after the end of the First World War . After various additions and renovations, it later served as a spa house or spa hotel with the name "Haus Lebensquell". During the Second World War it was used as a military hospital and as an alternative location for the Bad Godesberg maternity ward. In April 1950 the Kurhaus Lebensquell was reopened.

Around 1953 the entrepreneur and Knight's Cross holder Major a. D. Hannibal von Lüttichau took over the property as a result of his move to Rolandswerth for the purpose of rounding off his lands. In March 1955, the Kurhaus, which was still located in the house, ceased operations. Then offered it to that of Lüttichau Foreign Office as one of the government headquarters in Bonn active diplomats on to rent. After the Soviet Union, in the form of an embassy councilor who was to move in with two other diplomats, first registered interest in the property in early 1956 , the Turkish ambassador Seyfullah Esin overbid the rent offered by the Soviet representatives. Until early summer 1956 he was able to move into the property now known as "Haus Rolandshöhe". It was the residence of the Turkish ambassador until October 1969 when a new embassy building was completed in the Bad Godesberg district of Mehlem .

After the Turkish ambassador moved out, the villa was taken over by the Alfred Haupt Foundation (HLBS Foundation since 1994), a funding institution of the Main Association of Agricultural Book Offices and Experts . In 1974 the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Awo) acquired the property in order to open an advanced training facility there to be operated by the Awo Federal Association. For this purpose, the building was extensively renovated and a new building at the rear was added. The conference facility was named “Haus Humboldtstein” after Alexander von Humboldt , who praised the view from Rolandseck and the Rolandsbogen as “one of the seven most beautiful views in the world” on his travels along the Rhine . The conference center is also available to external customers.

description

The villa, positioned along the Rhine with a viewing terrace, is designed in the neo-Gothic style. It is used on the ground floor with several rooms for group meetings. The battlements originally placed on the roof have been bricked up later, with the exception of those of the tower. At the rear of the villa there is a long, modern conference center with additional group rooms and a kitchen with dining room. The upper two floors accommodate guest rooms.

Web links

Commons : Haus Humboldtstein  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernhard R. Appel, Ute Bär, Matthias Wendt (eds.); Gerd Nauhaus : Schumanniana nova: Festschrift Gerd Nauhaus for his 60th birthday , Studio Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3895640858 , p. 114 ff.
  2. ↑ a b Awo seminars in a previous residence , General-Anzeiger , July 20, 1995
  3. ^ Hermann Bauer: And so were THE TURKS ( Memento of April 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Heimatjahrbuch des Kreis Ahrweiler 1959 , p. 57 f.
  4. ↑ Senin's Failure , Der Spiegel , June 27, 1956
  5. ↑ HLBS - History of the Foundation ( Memento from May 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Matthias Röcke: Villas on the Rhine . In: 1982 home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district .
  7. ↑ Knut Aurel Kühnel Architects: Renovation 1997-1998 ( Memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 5.1 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 20.2 ″  E