Heisterbachstrasse 39 (Bonn)

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Rhine front of Villa Heisterbachstrasse 39 (2014)

The building at Heisterbachstraße 39 (also called Villa Cappell ) is a villa in Rüngsdorf , a district of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , which was built in 1904/05. It is located above the banks of the Rhine (Von-Sandt-Ufer) at the end of Heisterbachstrasse. The villa was until the late 1990s residence of the British Ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany and is available as a monument under monument protection .

history

Draft, elevation of the Rhine front (1904)

The villa was built in 1904/05 for the builder Johanna Cappell, a millionaire , based on a design by the architect and government master builder Heinrich Plange, as one of the first on the recently completed extension of Heisterbacher Strasse to the fortification wall above the Rhine promenade . It was built in solid construction, received a slate roof and initially consisted of a main building with a Rhine terrace and a kitchen extension. It also had central heating from the start . A staircase and the cellar intended as a plant house were integrated into the sea wall. Stylistically , the villa can be assigned to the pictureque and abstract baroque , also due to its asymmetrical structure .

“Villa Cappell (…) is an extraordinarily successful symbiosis of baroque and picturesque. [G] er it is the lateral displacement of the pavilion, the entire asymmetrical layout of the villa, its structuring graduation through the low rear wings at the side make up the enormous charm of this villa and deliver the picturesque values. "

- Olga Sunday (1998)

One year after completion of the shell , the villa was to be occupied in October 1905 after the final acceptance. In autumn 1907 a garage and a greenhouse were built on the property line. At the end of 1924 the construction of a pavilion was approved , in June 1925 the extension of the greenhouse to include a warm house and the relocation of the property access, in the course of which a new gate system with fence and gate pillars as well as a gate house were built. In 1930 the property became the property of Industriegesellschaft Agricola mbH , which in that year had an oriel with a balcony completed on the south side and the loggia closed on the north side to enlarge the space. In 1945, the villa was a multi-family house has been divided into eight apartments and had 24 rooms with a living area of 700 sqm.

After the Second World War , the villa was confiscated by American occupation troops and used as accommodation for the military police . Belgian division generals then lived here. After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the US High Commissioner John Jay McCloy made the property his residence in the fall of that year. On October 12th the contract for the necessary renovation work was placed at the office of the federal capital of North Rhine-Westphalia . Among other things, they included the establishment of a tea room and the construction of a new tennis court , and at the request of McCloy's wife Ellen, the interior furnishings were particularly lavish. The high commissioner conducted his official business mainly from the then seat of the high commissioner's office in Frankfurt am Main and used the house during his occasional visits to Bonn. In 1951 McCloy gave up the residence in favor of the house at Rolandstrasse 67 . In 1953, the British High Commissioner took over the villa as his residence following the move of his office from Cologne-Wahn to Bonn. With the end of the Occupation Statute in 1955, it became the residence of the British Embassy and the ambassador's residence. For this purpose, another gate house was built on the property as a guard. In 1959 the viewing pavilion was demolished and a single-storey extension of the tea house was built as a "ballroom". In 1973 the kitchen was extended to the side. The residence experienced an intensive gastronomic use.

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the British embassy moved to Berlin in late summer 1999 . The villa could already be sold in private ownership until 2000. On July 5th, 2000 it was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn. In 2010 the television film The Man with the Bassoon was shot here.

literature

  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 144–149. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 26-29.

Web links

Commons : Heisterbachstraße 39  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 3613
  2. ^ A b Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, p. 294.
  3. ↑ a b c d Federal City of Bonn, Lower Monument Authority : List of Monuments of the City of Bonn (Annex: Building description of the Villa "Cappell", Heisterbachstraße 39, Bonn-Bad Godesberg , May 3, 2000)
  4. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 216.
  5. ^ Helmut Vogt: Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , p. 58.
  6. ^ Helmut Vogt: Viceroys on the River - The Rhine and the Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 . In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 55/56, 2006, ISSN  0068-0052 , pp. 273–288 (here: p. 286).
  7. ↑ Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , 2nd edition 2011, p. 29/30.
  8. ↑ The British now reside in the Südstadt , General-Anzeiger , July 11, 2000, Bonn city edition, p. 7
  9. ^ Minutes of Evidence - Annex A , House of Commons - Select Committee on Foreign Affairs
  10. ↑ Tour through the former embassies of Bad Godesberg , General-Anzeiger, September 15, 2007
  11. ↑ Shooting of the two-part TV series about the life of Udo Jürgens in Rüngsdorf , General-Anzeiger, November 18, 2010

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 7.3 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 25.7"  E