House Rothenberge

House Rothenberge ("Villa Jordaan") in Wettringen , view from the park side 2011

The house Rothenberge ("Villa Jordaan") is a listed secular building in Rothenberge , a district of Wettringen , in the Steinfurt district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The Rothenberge house, sometimes also called Villa Jordaan - van Heek, is a representative villa in a scenic location on the top of the Rothenberg. It is designed in the style of a maison de plaisance from the 18th century and was built from 1920 to 1921 according to plans by the architect Alfred Hensen . The clients were the banker Jan Jordaan (1863–1935) and his wife Engelbertha ("Bertha"), née. van Heek (1876-1960). The elegant plastered building is covered with a mansard roof. The corner pilasters are grooved, the balcony porch is semicircular. The complex also includes a tea house with a thatched roof . The interior is in the French Rococo style. The villa is currently used by the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster as a country home and for scientific conferences and seminars.

House Rothenberge, entrance
Park side
View of Wettringen from the terrace of the "Landhaus Rothenberge"

literature

Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2

Footnotes

^ Claudia Landwehr (Red.): The coffee cantate. A musical comedy from Westphalia based on JS Bach . Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-939974-38-3 , p. 11.

Web links

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[1] Claudia Landwehr (Red.): The coffee cantate. A musical comedy from Westphalia based on JS Bach . Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-939974-38-3 , p. 11.