Hotel Wolkenburg

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Former Hotel Wolkenburg, view from Rhöndorfer Straße (2014)
Former Hotel Wolkenburg, view from Drachenfelsstrasse (2012)

The Hotel Wolkenburg is a former hotel in Rhöndorf , a district of the city of Bad Honnef in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district . The building is on Drachenfelsstraße (house number 2) at the corner of Rhöndorfer Straße. It is a listed building as a monument . The hotel was named after the Wolkenburg , one of the seven great mountains of the Siebengebirge .

history

The building was built in 1779 as a half-timbered house on the previous site of the family of the judge Gerhard Heister, who lives in the neighboring house in the tower . His great-grandson Hermann Jakob Proff and his wife Margaretha Quick had it built this year, as evidenced by the initials in an inscription on the half-timbered of the building ( HIP 17 IHS 79 MQ ). After 1832 it fell into the possession of the family of Hermann Jakob Broel, who worked there as a baker and landlord. By the end of the 19th century, the house developed as "Broel'sche Wolkenburg" and the location of its own winery, into a hotel and guesthouse combined with a wine restaurant. The wine production took place in the basement of the house until 1905, she was in an opposite new outsourced. In 1913/14 the then hotel owner Theodor Broel had the hotel rebuilt according to a design by the Honnef architect Ottomar Stein and added a plastered hall. It was considered one of the most renowned accommodation providers in the area and had a large ballroom.

In 1943 the preparatory meeting of the Erwin von Beckerath working group took place in the hotel, which drafted concepts for an economic order in the period after the Second World War . Towards the end of the war, the hotel was confiscated by occupation troops, who after a two-day stay for the Swiss Consulate General , which was housed in the neighboring Villa Merkens , vacated it to accommodate temporary staff and guests of the consulate. On December 5, 1947, the German Forest Protection Association was founded in the hotel . In 1949 it was one of the accommodation establishments in the Bonn enclave that was to be expanded to accommodate employees of the Allied High Commission . On the occasion of political elections, the hotel served as a polling station , where - as in the 1957 Bundestag elections - the then Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer cast his vote. After a new lease in 1974, the hotel was enlarged and transformed into a mass hostel; it ceased operations as early as 1979.

The building was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bad Honnef on September 8, 1981. Between 1982 and 1986, the hotel was converted into condominiums , removing the rear extensions including the hotel kitchen and the collapsed outbuildings and sheds . The stucco ceilings of the 18th century in the southern rooms on the first floor were not restored, new roof in slate covered.

Web links

Commons : Hotel Wolkenburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 6
  2. Adolf Nekum : The viticulture in Honnef - memories of a 1,100 year history (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein "Herrschaft Löwenburg" eV : studies on the local history of the town of Bad Honnef am Rhein , issue 10). Bad Honnef 1993, p. 248.
  3. The “treasure” in the winery ( memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Die Bad Honnefer Wochenzeitung, September 27, 2013
  4. GA series "House visit": On the trail of the grape , General-Anzeiger, March 20, 2009
  5. ^ State Conservator Rhineland: Bad Honnef - Urban Development and Urban Structure. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0414-5 , p. 125.
  6. ^ A b c Rhineland Regional Association , Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation (ed.): Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments. Volume 34, Rheinland-Verlag- und Betriebsgesellschaft, Pulheim 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1215-6 , p. 149.
  7. a b c The Bad Honnef weekly newspaper, October 14, 2013 ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Christian L. Glossner: Making of the German Post-war Economy: Political Communication and Public Reception of the Social Market Economy After World War Two . In: International library of twentieth century history , IB Tauris, 2010, ISBN 978-0-85771-458-9 , p. 37.
  9. ^ End of the war and a new beginning on the Rhine: Konrad Adenauer in the reports of the Swiss Consul General Franz-Rudolf von Weiss, 1944–1945 . In: Biographical sources on German history after 1945 , Volume 4, Oldenbourg, 1986, ISBN 978-3-486-53171-8 , p. 106.
  10. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 81.
  11. Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation; Rudolf Morsey , Hans-Peter Schwarz (ed.): Adenauer. Rhöndorf edition. , Siedler, 2009, p. 389.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 29.7 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 46.7"  E