Hirschburg (Koenigswinter)

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Aerial view of the Hirschburg from a south-westerly direction
Hirschburg

The Hirschburg is a historicist country villa with the character of a castle in Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , which was built in 1883/84. It is located on the north-western slope of the Hirschberg ( 257  m above sea level ) in the Siebengebirge , east and above the Nachtigallental . The Hirschburg stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The owner of the property was Jacob Anton Biesenbach, brother-in-law of Baron von Sarter , for whom Biesenbach had previously built the Drachenburg Castle on the other side of the Nachtigallental . The Hirschburg adopted its neo-Gothic style elements from this . The architects Gerhard Franz Langenberg and Wilhelm Hoffmann contributed to the design . In 1893, the associated park and forest area was fenced in with a wall on the street and partly on the mountain side. After Biesenbach's death, the Hirschburg fell into the possession of the von Malinckrodt family from Cologne in 1899 . In April 1910 it was sold for 375,000 marks to the Cologne wagon manufacturer Paul Charlier, who then renovated it and had the south side redesigned in particular.

In 1933 the Hirschburg was acquired by the Mannesmannröhren-Werke . Initially, it was planned to be used as a home for mothers and children, but from 1943 it was initially used as the company's administration building. From March 1950 it served as a rest home for the Mannesmann employees. In 1958 a gymnastics hall in the form of a rotunda was built in the southern park area, which was later followed by a sauna and a plunge pool. In 1971/72 a new guest house was built below the Hirschburg. Damage occurred in the 1992 earthquake in Roermond , which necessitated renovation work on the building. In doing so, Mannesmann decided to set up a seminar and conference center in the Hirschburg. The Hirschburg was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on September 29, 1995.

After the company was taken over by Vodafone , the Hirschburg was renovated under the direction of Michael Deisenroth in 2001/2002 and has also served the new owner, including the surrounding buildings, as a conference venue since 2003.

architecture

The Hirschburg is two-storey, has a clinker brick facade and shows some architectural and decorative forms of historicism on the Söller , loggia , bay windows and balconies . The roof has turrets, gables and dormers , sheet zinc plating and ridge balustrades . The central tower of the villa is oriented towards the distant view ( Belvedere ). A porch built there is adorned by two deer figures standing on pedestals. Most of the interior of the Hirschburg has been preserved.

On the northern part of the property there is a gardener's house - a brick building from 1899 - and on the mountain side there is a dining room from 1910/1911. The entire complex is separated from the surrounding streets and paths by a brick wall and also has an orchard . In the Nachtigallental you can find the former pump house of the Hirschburg from 1904, which is now only in ruins.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hirschburg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 295
  2. ↑ Winfried Biesing: The Hirschberg and the Hirschburg in the Siebengebirge . P. 54.
  3. ↑ Karl Josef Klöhs: glorious weather on Seven Mountains . Edition Loge 7, Königswinter 2003, ISBN 3-00-012113-7 , p. 166 .
  4. ↑ Winfried Biesing: The Hirschberg and the Hirschburg in the Siebengebirge . P. 60.
  5. ↑ Mobile communications managers scramble for the "pearl" , General-Anzeiger , October 17, 2003
  6. ↑ The Hirschburg is a popular conference venue , General-Anzeiger, September 25, 2010
  7. ↑ a b Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.)

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 27.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 23 ″  E