Hohenhof

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Entrance to the main house
Garden side of the Hohenhof

In the 20th century, the Hohenhof in Hagen-Eppenhausen was a residential building, a total work of art and a hub of a European cultural network. The house was built from 1906 to 1908 based on designs by Henry van de Velde for Karl Ernst Osthaus within the garden city of Hohenhagen . Today it is one of the locations of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum in the city of Hagen, alongside the art quarter .

In the industrial city of Hagen on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area , the art patron Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874–1921) tried at the beginning of the 20th century to combine art and life with his Folkwang idea. In his hometown Osthaus had a museum of world cultures built, as well as a German museum for art in trade and commerce . He founded the Folkwang publishing house .

He also initiated the construction of a workers' settlement designed by internationally renowned artists , a garden city project, and proposals for a general development plan for the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area.

Two buildings have been preserved in Hagen that were both personal domicile and workplace for Osthaus: his museum and his house, both designed by Henry van de Velde .

As early as 1920, a reform school initiated by Osthaus was provisionally located in part of the Hohenhof, but it only existed for one year. From 1924 to 1930, the Hohenhagen hand weaving mill was housed in the Hohenhof . Eberhard Osthaus and the couple Horst and Evangeline Helbing expanded this hand weaving mill into a flourishing company. 1930 left the hand weaving mill in Hagen and moved to Bremen. The name "Handweberei Hohenhagen" was retained there until it was closed in 1965. In 1927 the family sold the buildings and lands to the city of Hagen, with the condition that the facility be preserved as a “total work of art”. In 1933 the city left the Hohenhof to the NSDAP to set up a Gauführerschule . Towards the end of the war it was used as a hospital , from 1946 to 1962 it served as a women's clinic. From 1963 to 1976 the Hohenhof was the seat of the Hagen University of Education, until it was merged with other universities to form the Ruhr University of Education , based in Dortmund. After extensive renovation work, the Hohenhof has since been open to the public as an architectural work of art.

The Hohenhof is the anchor point of the route of industrial culture in the Ruhr area .

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Commons : Hohenhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ picture postcard
  2. ↑ [1] (PDF; 518 kB). Biographical notes by C. Raebiger (former university professor in Hagen)

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '34 "  N , 7 ° 30' 49"  E