Hohenstaufenring 57
The Palais Oelbermann , named after the wealthy residents, the Emil Oelbermann family, was located at Hohenstaufenring 57 (today No. 55) on the corner of Beethovenstraße on the Kölner Ringen .
History of origin
Client Emil Oelbermann earned his fortune through import and export business in the textile trade in the USA and returned to Cologne with his wife Laura in 1880. At first they lived here temporarily at the Excelsior Hotel Ernst and then at Unter Sachsenhausen 4.
The Hohenstaufenring 57 building was completed between 1889 and 1890 by Hermann Otto Pflaume in the neo-renaissance style and was considered to be one of the most magnificent residential buildings in Cologne. Its exterior and interior design testified to the wealth of the wealthy owners. In 1890 both were able to move into their own house, but Emil Oelbermann died in May 1897. Since all of the children had died by 1904, Laura Oelbermann lived alone in the big house as a widow.
Laura Oelbermann's jewelry was the talk of the town, her exit in a four-in-hand car was a social event: “Lurens, de Frau Oelbermann jeht us” (Look, Frau Oelbermann is going out). As the sole heir to her deceased husband, Ms. Oelbermann owned entire rows of houses on Hohenstaufenring, namely numbers 30, 32, 48, 50, 52 and 54, as well as Engelbertstrasse 38 or Jahnstrasse 36 and 38. May 1916 a work by Max Liebermann from gallery owner Paul Cassirer and operated an art gallery in the Palais. She was one of the wealthiest citizens of Cologne. One of her many donations enabled the construction of the Auguste Viktoria Hospital (Jerusalem) planned by Robert Leibnitz , the foundation stone of which was laid on March 31, 1907 and which was finished on April 9, 1910. Because of her social donations she raised Wilhelm II to the nobility in August 1918, from then on she called herself Baroness Laura von Oelbermann.
After the death of the widow Oelbermann
After Laura Oelbermann's death on June 3, 1929, the Kunsthaus Lempertz carried out an auction of all works of art in Palais Oelbermann on December 11, 1929 on the basis of Laura Oelbermann's will. Between 1930 and 1931, the palace was redesigned and expanded by Helmuth Wirminghaus into a dormitory for working women. During the renovation work in 1930, 15 skeletal graves were discovered, which probably belonged to a late Roman cemetery. Among other things, a coin from Constantine the Great was found, in a grave lay rich ornamental and figuratively decorated bronze fittings of a box as well as a stately tankard with the richest barbotine overlay and white-painted inscription. The building, which belongs to the Oelbermann Foundation, survived the Second World War and was restored from December 1949. On April 22, 1950, the Hermann Abels art salon moved here. The aging building was demolished in 1981 and replaced by a residential building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helga Bargel, Ten o'clock punctually Gürzenich , 1995, p. 109
- ↑ Irene Franken, Frauen in Köln , 2008, p. 144
- ↑ Rudolf Martin, Year Book of Property and Income of Millionaires in Prussia 1912 , 1912, p. 266
- ↑ Gebrüder Mann, The Fund Mints of the Roman Era in Germany , Part 1–6, 1962, p. 520
- ^ Wilhelm Unverzagt, Prehistorische Zeitschrift , Volumes 21–22, 1930, p. 247
- ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from April 25, 1950, Abels art salon now in the Oelbermann extension on Hohenstaufenring
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 22 ″ E