Jens Jessen House

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The Jens Jessen House (2014)
To the left of the entrance is the memorial plaque to Jens Jessen with the name "Jens-Jessen-Haus".

The Jens-Jessen-Haus (also more rarely: Villa Hansen ) in Flensburg - Westliche Höhe , at Selckstraße 3, is an Art Nouveau villa that was named in memory of the economist and resistance fighter Jens Jessen , who was a student at the neighboring old grammar school . The villa is one of the city's cultural monuments .

background

The villa was built in 1903/04 on the Westliche Höhe, where well-to-do citizens owned houses, gardens and parks. The country house in question was built for the councilor Ida Hansen according to plans by the architect Gustav Willrath . It initially had the address Marienstraße 79 and from around 1926 the address Selckstraße 3. The plastered building with striking half-timbered parts received different painterly decorations. Above the door on the south side of the house the inscription "God guards the entrance and exit" was placed. Colored Art Nouveau glazing depicting a windmill found its place in the stairwell. - The mill shown is the Gertruyde windmill (also called Agathe), which was in the immediate vicinity of the old grammar school until 1890. In the year mentioned, it was moved to the south-west of the city as a replacement for the burnt Boreas mill . - The villa has been almost completely preserved in its original form to this day. In 1958 an outside staircase was added on the garden side to the veranda .

From 1982 to 2007 the neighboring old grammar school used the house. In honor of the former student Jens Jessen , the building was named "Jens-Jessen-Haus". Jens Jessen was born in Stoltelund near Tingleff in 1885 . He later went to high school. Jens Jessen apparently did not live in the said villa, which could be assumed based on the name. Jessen later became an economist . After the Hitler assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Jens Jessen was executed as a resistance fighter in Berlin-Plötzensee . The house received a memorial plaque to Jens Jessen with the wording: "Jens-Jessen-Haus Prof. Jens Jessen (1895-1944) student of the old grammar school Flensburg economist and financial scientist executed as a resistance fighter in Plötzensee on November 30th, 1944" .

Around 2010 the Jens-Jessen-Haus threatened to decay. It was sold. In 2010, the City's Environment and Planning Committee gave its approval for the construction of a three-story residential building with three city apartments in the neighboring Reepschlägerbahn . The property in question was a garden area of ​​the Jens-Jessen-Haus. For the approval of the construction project, the investor promised the renovation of the Jens-Jessen-Haus. In 2013 the villa was repaired by the architect Henry Jacobs from Alkersum . In recent times the villa has been placed under monument protection for historical, artistic and urban planning reasons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It is not to be confused with the Hansen merchant house in downtown Flensburg , to which it has no relation.
  2. ↑ a b Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburger Architektur: The houses of the well-heeled , from: August 12, 2015; accessed on: October 2, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 448 f.
  4. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 448
  5. ↑ a b c d e Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 98
  6. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Flensburger Köpfe: FW Selck: benefactor and honorary citizen , from: August 5, 2011; accessed on: October 11, 2019
  7. ↑ A photo printed in the monument topography by Lutz Wilde from 1878 clearly shows the same mill as on the glazing of the Jens-Jessen-Haus. See Lutz Wilde: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 50 as well as: photo theme. Glass window (Jens-Jessen-Haus, Flensburg)
  8. ↑ The memorial plaque to Jens Jessen was apparently removed at the request of the new owner. It is said to have been temporarily kept in the old grammar school. After the house was renovated, it was put back on the house.
  9. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Cheap Bauhaus on the Reepschlägerbahn? , dated: August 28, 2010; accessed on: October 11, 2019
  10. ↑ List of monuments in Flensburg , accessed on: October 1, 2018

Web links

Commons : Jens-Jessen-Haus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 17.2 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 42.2 ″  E