Heylshof

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The Heylshof in Worms
Bust of Heyl in the garden of the Heylshof

The Heylshof (also Museum Art Heylshof or Foundation Art Heylshof ) is under monument protection standing museum with a spacious garden area in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Worms .

history

In 1805 the Heyl family came into possession of the former prince-bishop's garden north of the cathedral. The area is bordered on the west side by the remains of the medieval city wall. At this point stood the traditional Worms bishop's court , instead of the original royal palace , which was rebuilt as an elongated building with side wings with the participation of Balthasar Neumann in 1719–1725, the central projection of which pointed towards the palace square. As early as 1794, the new prince-bishop's residence was destroyed again.

The representative building of the Heylshof was created between 1881 and 1884 by the Swiss architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli , who was a student of Semper , in the neo-baroque style and served Cornelius Wilhelm Heyl , his wife Sophie von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (née Stein) and their children as Palais after the building previously used as a residential building, the Heyls-Schlößchen , had become too small. Cornelius Wilhelm von Heyl bequeathed the building and the garden to the city of Worms with his wife, Baroness Sophie von Heyl.

The building was partially destroyed in an air raid in the spring of 1945 and restored with a hipped roof only on one floor. Since 1961 it has been open to the public again as the "Kunsthaus Stiftung Heylshof".

Todays use

Today, the Heylshof is primarily a museum for the city of Worms. The von Heyl family's art collection has been here since 1925, including German, French and Dutch paintings, porcelain and ceramics, which survived war damage by being transported to safe locations in good time. The Heylshof also fulfills other purposes, for example at the Nibelungen Festival , when its garden area is used as a theater foyer. There are also regular changing exhibitions by various artists , including contemporary ones .

Garden view

Worth mentioning and seeing are the wrought iron fence with gate and the portal on the building with carved wooden door leaves by the sculptor Lorenz Gedon and the staircase inside.

The western boundary of the garden is part of the inner wall ring of the medieval city ​​fortification of Worms , which is incorporated into the park in a romanticized form as a staffage building. The painting in the arches comes from Agathe Sander , probably from the 1960s. In the garden there is a (now barred ) cellar entrance to the cathedral from 1719. Fragments of sculptures have also been preserved, as well as a section of the medieval city fortifications on the north-western side with the Hercules fountain .

In 2015 the Bismarck Monument , originally donated by Cornelius Wilhelm Heyl and stored after 1945, was installed in the western part of the garden.

The Lutheran Great Shoes, built in 2017, is located at the eastern end of the site.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In a letter of foundation dated May 15, 1920, it says: The property that my ancestors acquired more than 100 years ago in Worms near the cathedral and expanded by my dear wife and I has the property due to the close connection between this position and the larger ones Events of world historical importance that took place in the old bishop's palace that stood in the garden, a special historical significance for all time. By designing this property in its current form, a dignified and solemn environment has been created for the venerable cathedral. Therefore, in order to give my hometown another proof of my love and attachment, I decided to transfer this property, which includes the Heylshof and the Heylschen Garten, and which is my sole, freely available property, to a charitable foundation (Georg Illert : Worms - as it was. Droste, Düsseldorf 1976, p. 71).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] , P. 17 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
  2. ↑ Georg Illert: Worms - as it was . Droste, Düsseldorf 1976, p. 71 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Altmann: My motto for life remains Renaissance - the architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli. In: Dissertation University of Trier. September 20, 2000, accessed November 25, 2006 .
  4. ↑ Irene Spille / Otto Böcher: History of the City of Worms - Worms in the 19th and 20th centuries until 1945 . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 777 .
  5. ^ Gerold Bönnen : History of the city of Worms - Worms in the 19th and 20th centuries until 1945 . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen. 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 859 .
  6. ^ Gerold Bönnen : History of the city of Worms - Worms in the 19th and 20th centuries until 1945 . Ed .: Gerold Bönnen. 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 862 .
  7. ^ Karl Heinz Armknecht: The Worms city walls . In: Der Wormsgau 9 (1970/1971), pp. 54-65 (59).
  8. ↑ Gernot Kirch: Today Bismarck is coming back. In: Nibelungen Courier. September 16, 2015, accessed June 2, 2019 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '52.7 "  N , 8 ° 21' 35.1"  E