Herderstrasse 9

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The property at Herderstraße 9 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe is a park-like property steeped in history that cannot be seen from the outside. The villa built on this property is known as Haus Hohenbuchen or Haus im Walde .

location

The approximately 1.1 hectare property is completely bordered in the north and east and largely by the Sülzertalweg in the west. Its entrance is in the southwest on Herderweg . The Paul-Ehrlich-Weg runs south of the property . The generously proportioned mansion has a living space of around 900 m² .

history

Portrait of Eisenhower from 1945, in which he lived in the Hohenbuchen villa.

The Hohenbuchen house was built in 1937/38 on behalf of the Homburg entrepreneur Werner Reimers, who founded the PIV Ketten und Getriebe GmbH Bad Homburg in 1928 , which was at the head of the Homburg company in 1950.

After the US armed forces entered Bad Homburg on March 30, 1945, the property was confiscated and General Dwight D. Eisenhower lived in . After Eisenhower was appointed chief of staff, Joseph T. McNarney moved into the villa in November 1945 and succeeded him as commander of American troops in Europe and as American representative on the Allied Control Council . Lucius D. Clay succeeded him in March 1947 and moved into the villa during his tenure as military governor of the American zone of occupation in Germany until 1949 . The next occupant was the High Commissioner John Jay McCloy , who moved into the villa with his wife and two children in August 1949. It was his wife Ellen who gave the previous Hohenbuchen house the new name Haus im Walde . Under Mrs. McCloy, the house was a place of social life, receiving up to two thousand guests a month. Among these were in addition to government representatives and diplomats of many countries and movie stars from Hollywood .

After McCloys moved out in the summer of 1952, the property was returned to Reimers, who had meanwhile found a new home in the immediate vicinity ( Am Wingertsberg 4 ). He sold the property in 1953 to the Association of the German Automobile Industry , which had its place of business there for almost four decades.

Anecdotes

Günter Fleischer, a long-time member of SpVgg 05 Bad Homburg and cousin of the Olympic champion in the javelin throw of 1936 , Tilly Fleischer , worked after the Second World War on the oldest German golf course in Bad Homburg as the first employee of the traditional Homburg golf club. In order to supply the lawn with sufficient water, he violated the general ban on blasting due to the acute water shortage in the bathing city by "forgetting" to turn off the taps after the work was done. The excessive consumption of water had the effect that General Joseph McNarney waited in vain for water when he tried to shower. He suspected a burst pipe or even sabotage and commissioned American military personnel to investigate the cause of the damage and to repair it. It was Fleischer's luck that the investigation did not lead to him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bongers Properties: Historic property in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (accessed June 17, 2017)
  2. ^ Gerta Walsh: Big names in Bad Homburg - A walk through the streets of the spa town . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 81, ISBN 3-7973-0674-1
  3. ^ Gerta Walsh: Bad Homburg facades - stories about famous houses in the spa town . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, p. 108ff, ISBN 3-7973-0817-5
  4. ↑ Olaf Velte: Villa Reimers: The General's cows (article from March 9, 2011 in the Frankfurter Rundschau )
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Zimmermann: "Tilly" and the General (article from June 12, 2015 in the Taunus newspaper )

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 56.6 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 32.2 ″  E