House on the Redoute

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The main facade towards the east to Kurfürstenallee . The red building on the left is one of the former lodging houses - today part of the district town hall
Colored copper engraving by Johann Andreas Ziegler after Laurenz Janscha from the year 1792: In the foreground, the redoubt, the following flat building is the Court Theater and it is close the boarding houses at

The house on the Redoute (also: former electoral court theater or comedy house ) is a building erected in 1790 in the Alt-Godesberg district of Bonn . The name refers to the location of the villa next to the Godesberger Redoute . The classicistic property is located at Kurfürstenallee 1a (formerly Kurfürstenstraße ); the district town hall is adjacent to the north, and the Redoutenpark extends to the west . Originally a court theater and residential building, it now serves as a branch of the Bonn Art Museum and as a district administration office and is a listed building .

history

Simultaneously with the construction of the redoubt, Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria had the neighboring chamber theater built between 1790 and 1792, also designed by the architect Martin Leydel . The much smaller theater was connected to the redoubt by a covered corridor.

In the south of the theater six more houses were built on the instructions of the elector after 1791, which were used as lodging houses for the spa guests and from 1815 partly as a hotel ("Blinzler"). In 1895, after merging some of these buildings, the Kur- und Wasserheilanstalt was built , which was converted in 1936 into the town hall of Bad Godesberg, which had been granted city rights the previous year.

The elector used the small theater building mostly privately; Here, in a small space in front of him and a few other guests (the auditorium was only 35 square meters), small plays or singing games were presented. The name also used as the Electoral Summer Theater suggests that it was only used in summer. The theater was only used in 1793 and 1794.

Heydt property

In the year the Elberfeld banker Daniel Heinrich von der Heydt acquired both the Redoute and the theater from the legacy of the Electorate of Cologne. In 1823 he sold the Redoute, but kept the former theater building. In 1847 the businessman Johann Caspar Gottfried Wever-Kersten (1780-1858), Heydt's brother-in-law, became the owner of the building. He spent the summer months in Godesberg and died here in 1858. Three years later, Carl von der Heydt , a son of Daniel Heinrich, bought the building and had it converted into a bourgeois country house with outbuildings (e.g. a coach house ). From now on, at the latest, the building was known as the “House on the Redoute”. When Heydt died in 1881, the house was passed on to his 23-year-old grandson, Karl von der Heydt .

Karl von der Heydt lived in the former theater in the summers up to 1893. After moving to the newly built and more representative villa on the Wacholderhöhe that year , the house on the Redoute was rented to the businessman Kaspar Schmidt and his wife Adele Emma Barker. After the death of her husband, Elisabeth von der Heydt (1864–1961) moved back into the former comedy house with her two daughters in 1922. One of Heydt's daughters, Gerda-Dorothea de Weerth (1894–1995), lived there until her death. In 1996 the family sold the house to the city of Bonn.

German Foundation for Monument Protection

The German Foundation for Monument Protection rented the villa from 1997 to 2011 as a branch office next to the headquarters at Koblenzer Straße 75 . Since the city of Bonn was unable to pay for a renovation that was due, an agreement was reached with the tenant to offset the renovation costs of around DM 1.8 million against the rent ( principle of “renovation against tenancy waiver” ). As part of the restoration work in 1998/99, in addition to roof work, plaster and stucco repairs and restoration of the parquet and plank floors, the original floor plan was also reconstructed.

Todays use

The Bad Godesberg district administration office has been using the building on the Redoute since September 2011 . Bad Godesberg artists can use rooms in the basement to exhibit their works of art. Every Bad Godesberger can apply for an exhibition space. Chamber music evenings and other cultural events as well as receptions of the city district take place here.

In addition to many other artists, Ulrich Behl , Eva Maria Enders , Peter Heinig , Paul Magar , Otto Nemitz , Gerhard Neumann , Markus Riebe , Hilde Stock-Sylvester , Karlheinz Ziegler and Louis Ziercke were exhibited here.

architecture

The two-storey building on a rectangular floor plan has five window axes and is in an early classical style. On the front there is a representative central risalit running over three axes , which is structured with four pilasters and three round arches resting on them. A classic triangular gable with plant decorations completes it at roof level .

The guests entered the theater from the redoubt through the previously existing covered corridor. The auditorium was on the first floor; There were benches here from which one could see the stage at ground level. At the rear of the building there were rooms for cloakrooms and props. During the renovation in 1861, the connecting corridor to the Redoute was torn down and a house entrance was created in its place.

See also

Web links

Commons : House on the Redoute  - collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 37, number A 1859
  2. ^ Andreas Denk , Ingeborg Flagge : Architekturführer Bonn. ISBN 978-3-49601-1-507 , D. Reimer, 1997, p. 101
  3. ↑ The assignment of the architect is disputed, there were several master builders in the Leydel family. It is also conceivable that an architect involved in later years was Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel , according to Werner Schäfke: The Rhine from Mainz to Cologne: A journey through the romantic Rhine Valley. Dumont Kunstreisführer, DuMont Reiseverlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-77014-7-991 , p. 175
  4. ↑ a b c d Horst Heidermann : The Wuppertal Villas and Apartments - Search for traces on the Rhine . Bergischer Geschichtsverein, Wuppertal Department, 2011, online PDF , p. 15f.
  5. ↑ Ingrid Bodsch, Otto Biba, Ingrid Fuchs; Stadtmuseum Bonn (ed.): Joseph Haydn and Bonn: Catalog for the exhibition, Bonn, January 26 to April 29, 2001. 2001, ISBN 978-3-93187-8-146 , p. 106
  6. ^ Anton Henze: North Rhine-Westphalia: Art monuments and museums. Volume 3 of: Reclam's Art Guide : Germany , ISBN 978-3-15008-4-021 , Reclam, 1982, p. 88
  7. ↑ Bettina Köhl: Historic villas on Kurfürstenallee row of closed shutters , November 4, 2014
  8. ↑ a b c Mathias Nofze: House on the Redoute: who renovated, will pay less rent , 21. August 2008
  9. ↑ Ernst Weyden : Godesberg, the Siebengebirge, and their surroundings. T. Habicht, Bonn 1864, p. 24
  10. ^ Axel Kirchhoff: The architect Heinrich Plange (1857–1942): A builder of entrepreneurship in the Bergisch region. Inaugural dissertation at the Bergische Universität / GHS Wuppertal, Wuppertal 2004, p. 149
  11. ↑ Bad Godesberg district administration office and district mayor move , September 7, 2011, press release of the city of Bonn
  12. ^ Exhibitions in the house on the Redoute , website of the city of Bonn

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 52.6 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 12 ″  E