House Urge

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Front view of Urge House

Haus Urge is an entrepreneur villa in Mülheim an der Ruhr . The representative residential building was built in 1913 in the neo-baroque style for the family of leather manufacturer Jean Baptiste Coupienne jr. (1877–1938) erected. After 1924 it served Hugo Stinnes jr for several decades . , the eldest son of Hugo Stinnes , as a house. The building has been a listed building since 1988 .

location

The approximately 20,000 m² property of the villa, which is now publicly accessible, is located about two kilometers south of downtown Mülheim in an exclusive residential area on the Kahlenberg above the Ruhr , in the immediate vicinity of the Bismarck Tower . Bismarckstraße runs on the front of the villa as a connection between the city center and B 1 . The larger part of the property lies at the rear and consists of a lawn surrounded by old trees, directly adjacent to the Kahlenberg recreation area, which was also set up with the participation of Stinnes.

architecture

Martha Coupienne played a key role in the plans as the builder and insisted that it be designed according to the model of her parents' house, the moated castle Haus Blegge in Paffrath , which was built in the 18th century . The house has a living space of 1,100 m² and has a simple, almost square floor plan. Stylistically, the architecture of the house can be described as a typical combination of a relatively simple basic structure with elements of the Baroque period in the sense of reform architecture .

The front facade is dominated by the front entrance area, whose Ionic columns support the balcony above. The large arched window, which gives the house a certain openness, is striking. On the garden side, two towers with Italian domes flank the building and the winter garden that leads into a terrace .

A special feature is that during the Second World War by the building departments of the bill Mathias Stinnes and Mülheim mine-club -scale air raid shelter in the basement of the house. The vaulted cellar, which can hold up to 3,000 people at a maximum depth of 25 meters, was deliberately built by Stinnes for the people in the neighborhood and was also used regularly by them during the air raids on Mülheim.

use

The Coupiennes lived in their house for barely ten years, and in 1923 they sold it to the Stinnes family. In the following decades, Hugo Stinnes junior used the villa and the name of the house Urge was popularly reinterpreted as our wealth .

From 1945 to 1958, Urge House was used as a British military casino.

In 1973 the house became the property of the nearby Max Planck Institute for Coal Research , which set up a guest house for foreign scientists in it. The center for innovation and technology has been based here since July 2004.

literature

  • Barbara Maas: In the House of the Commerce Council. Villa architecture and upper-class living culture in the industrial age. The example of Mülheim an der Ruhr . Edition Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1990, pp. 92-101, 128, ISBN 3-88867-033-0 .
  • Antje A. Kraft: Recording of historical gardens and parks in the urban area of ​​Mülheim an der Ruhr . Diploma thesis in the Department of Land Care at the University of GHS Essen, 1992.
  • Daniel Menning: Feudal villa or old beauty? Upper-class villas from the imperial era in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In: Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (ed.): Witnesses of the city's history. Architectural monuments and historical places in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, pp. 89-92, ISBN 978-3-89861-784-0 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Urge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

  1. ^ House Urge. (PDF; 125 kB) (No longer available online.) Center for Innovation and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia, June 20, 2013, archived from the original on May 23, 2018 ; accessed on May 22, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zenit.de
  2. ^ Heinz-Guenter Kemmer: War on the palaces . In: The time . No. 43/1997 , October 17, 1997 ( online [accessed May 22, 2018]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '51.1 "  N , 6 ° 52' 55.6"  E