Wittgenstein House (Bornheim)

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Wittgenstein House
Wittgenstein House around 1860, Alexander Duncker Collection

Wittgenstein House around 1860, Alexander Duncker Collection

Conservation status: Receive
Place: Roisdorf , City of Bornheim
Geographical location 50 ° 45 '10.6 "  N , 7 ° 0' 7.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '10.6 "  N , 7 ° 0' 7.4"  E
Height: 84  m above sea level NHN
Wittgenstein House (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Wittgenstein House
Wittgenstein House (2011)

The Wittgenstein House is a villa in Roisdorf , a district of Bornheim in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhein-Sieg-Kreis . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The house Wittgenstein is located on the western outskirts of Roisdorf on the slope of the Metternichsberg at an altitude of 84  m above sea level. NHN . Urban is it over one of the street Ehrental outgoing impasse . The area is extensively fenced.

history

The villa goes back to a medieval hilltop castle owned by the von Metternich family at the same location. In 1789 the property became the property of the Wittgenstein family. Today's classicist villa instead of the previous building, which was converted from the Middle Ages or Baroque , was built in 1844/45 as a summer residence for the Cologne entrepreneur Heinrich von Wittgenstein, based on a design by Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner . Parts of the previous building have been preserved as masonry in the cellar vault. The estate included a 4.5 hectare large landscaped park and included a press house . After the death of the last owner from the von Wittgenstein family, the widowed and childless Sibylle von Wittgenstein, her brother-in-law Friedrich von Kesseler and his wife Theresia von Wittgenstein inherited the property. They then had a boundary stone with the initials "vK" erected and a new wrought-iron grille made with the coat of arms of the Kesseler family and the year 1918.

During the time of National Socialism , the Reich Labor Service set up a camp for labor maids in the villa in 1934 , which was also used as a conference center by young leaders and a vacation home for the Wehrmacht . From 1945 to 1952 she was the residence of Princess Armgard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, mother of the Prince of the Netherlands . In the mid-1950s, the building served as a Kneipp sanatorium, and in the 1960s and 1970s, it was also used as a mental hospital.

After the death of the last owner, Friedrich Franz Freiherr von Proff-Irnich von Kesseler (1905–1984), the estate was sold by the community of heirs to the then young party Die Grünen , who wanted to set up a future workshop there as a center for a new political culture . During the necessary renovation, there were tax irregularities. At an extraordinary federal assembly in Karlsruhe in December 1988, the majority of the delegates spoke out in favor of the resignation of the federal executive board, which had not been able to dispel the allegations, because of the irregularities. Thereupon the three party spokesmen Jutta Ditfurth , Regina Michalik and Christian Schmidt resigned from their offices. Instead of serving as a future workshop, after the renovation was completed in 1989, the villa served as a conference center and headquarters of the party's financial administration. After the Greens left the German Bundestag as a result of the Bundestag election in 1990 , the party's federal office (from 1993 Alliance 90 / The Greens ) was moved to the Wittgenstein House in 1991. In 1995 it moved back to Bonn near the SPD party headquarters .

Haus Wittgenstein was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bornheim in January 1987. Haus Wittgenstein has been the seat of the theological college Bibelseminar Bonn and the free church aid organization To All Nations since 1996 .

literature

  • Hermann Josef Roth : DuMont art travel guide Bonn: from the Roman garrison to the federal capital - art and nature between the Voreifel and the Siebengebirge . DuMont, Cologne 1988, ISBN 978-3-7701-1970-7 , p. 247.

Web links

Commons : Haus Wittgenstein  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bornheim , number A 34
  2. Jump up ↑ Everyone Crazy , Der Spiegel , October 24, 1988
  3. ↑ gruene.de: party chronicle
  4. ^ Matthias Hannemann, Dietmar Preißler: Bonn - Places of Democracy. The historical travel guide. Published by the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany , Federal Agency for Civic Education . Links, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-519-5 , p. 113.
  5. ↑ Entry on Path of Democracy