Buchholz manor house

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Buchholz manor house 1890

The Buchholz manor house is a building in Alfter in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Waldrestaurant Buchholz 1920

The house was built in 1858 at the height of the foothills and initially consisted of a small arable landscape with self-made gazebos. Baked goods, coffee and cold drinks were sold there, especially to day trippers in the area. Due to the romantic era of the Rhine and the view of the nearby Siebengebirge , the house had numerous visitors in the middle of the 19th century . From then on the property was called "Das Buchholz". It experienced its heyday in the 1930s as an excursion destination for the Cologne and Bonn area. At that time, a dance hall in the form of a pavilion was built. After the end of the war , the house lost its importance and fell into disrepair.

In 1970 the restaurant was taken over by the host family Marlies and Christian Dreesen, who ran the Krimmling coffee house in Bonn from 1960 to 1977 . It was at this time that the term “Buchholz manor house” came into being. Since then, the Buchholz manor house has often been used as a retreat by Bonn politicians, who could discreetly gain access through a back door. Numerous greats of the Bonn republic such as Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Otto Graf Lambsdorff and Helmut Kohl were regular guests. The black-yellow coalition was negotiated here and Helmut Kohl celebrated his election victory as Federal Chancellor on October 1, 1982.

After the government moved to Berlin in 1999, it was used, among other things, as a training center and as the office of an investment company. From 2012 it was empty for two years.

Today's Buchholz manor house at night

At the beginning of 2014 the building was reopened after extensive renovations. An official branch of the Alfter registry office has been located here since 2014 .

architecture

Buchholz manor house 1977

Today's Buchholz manor house combines buildings from several centuries:

  • a half-timbered house from 1858
  • the extensions from the beginning of the 20th century and
  • the bell tower that was added in the 1970s.

During the extensions in the 1970s, all parts of the building were combined into an organic structure, with each part of the building retaining its historical uniqueness. The bell tower was a striking feature of the Buchholz manor house. It housed a bell that was rung at weddings.

During the renovations in 2014, the external appearance was left almost unchanged.

literature

  • Marlies Dreesen: The manor house Buchholz Alfter - Bonn 1985 . Graphic company Lütz, Alfter 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roisdorf as it was. In: Calendar 2004. Heimatfreunde Roisdorf e. V., accessed on October 1, 2015 (Buchholz manor, see August).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Marlies Dreesen: The manor house Buchholz Alfter - Bonn 1985 . Graphic company Lütz, Alfter 1985.
  3. ↑ Helmut Kohl: Memoirs 1930–1982 . Droemer, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-27218-0 .
  4. ↑ Ilse Mohr: Buchholz mansion in Alfter - open day on Saturday. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn). September 12, 2014, accessed October 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Peter Fuß: Buchholz mansion in Alfter - empty space in the traditional inn has come to an end. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn). July 29, 2014, accessed October 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Getting married in the Alfter community. Alfter community, accessed on October 1, 2015 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 36.2 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 43.9"  E