Junker House (Simonskall)

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The Junker House

The Junkerhaus in Simonskall , Hürtgenwald municipality , is in the northern Eifel in the Düren district .

The building

The house is part of a building complex in which the guest house is also located. It was named after the last owner, the Junker family of industrialists. The building has belonged to the municipality of Hürtgenwald since the 1990s.

The entire building complex consists of a two-storey semi-detached house with a massive basement made of quarry stone and an upper floor made of timber framing, which adjoins the remains of a possibly former quarry stone defensive tower.

Monument protection

The building was entered on July 14, 1983 under No. 14 in the list of architectural monuments in Hürtgenwald . The text of the monument description reads:

“Inscribed date on the lintel 1651, renovated in 1773; (1723 according to Peters). Eaves, 2-storey semi-detached house, basement solid made of quarry stone, upper floor half-timbered; Connected to the north-west are the remains of a former defensive tower made of quarry stone with cross-frame windows and half cross-frame windows with walls made of sandstone and bluestone, remains of a loopholes; the house in the basement with cross-frame windows with bluestone walls; On the right and left of the street front an entrance, on the right a baroque pillar door with original nails, bluestone walls, the date in the flat arched lintel; left nailed door with wrought iron door knocker; the framework of the upper floor largely renewed; Windows in old proportions, the rear eaves side made entirely of quarry stone; completely renewed gable roof. Probably part of the former ironworks. "

Experiment Kalltalgemeinschaft

One of the most interesting events in the community of Hürtgenwald, both in terms of local history and in terms of literature and art history, was the stay and work of several young Cologne artists in Simonskall from 1919 to 1921. Some of them are among the most important today Representatives of the constructivist style in Germany, their works are in many museums around the world.

This group, which called itself the Kall valley community after the river of the same name, was essentially the art historian and publicist Carl Oskar Jatho , his wife Käthe Jatho-Zimmermann , writer, the painter and graphic artist Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and the painter and set designer from Leipzig Franz Nitsche .

The artists who were temporarily staying in Simonskall in the Junkerhaus at that time were mainly recruited from the group of later Cologne progressives , whose artistic work was dominated by the turn to the constructivist style trend of the 1920s. Well-known artist personalities such as Otto Freundlich , Heinrich Hoerle , Angelika Hoerle , Anton Räderscheidt , Marta Hegemann and Ret Marut , alias B. Traven with Irene Mermet , stayed in Simonskall .

In addition to the production of numerous pictures, woodcuts and sculptures, almost all of which came from Seiwert, the Kalltal community was also involved in the production and publication of literary works during their stay in the Eifel. Texts illustrated graphically: a total of eight works that have found their way into the literary and art history of modernism in the Rhineland under the name "Kalltalpresse, Druckschriften der Kalltal-Gemeinschaft". Volume 4 - Franz Wilhelm Seiwert's “Welt zum Staunen” was produced in an edition of 100 copies in Simonskall on a hand press.

The association “HöhenArt Hürtgenwald e. V. "is dedicated to the maintenance and preservation of documentation about the Kalltal community and organizes art exhibitions in the Junkerhaus. Franz Tiedtke (* 1940) is considered the initiator of the local involvement with the Kall valley community and the Junker House.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments in the Düren district. Retrieved November 6, 2012 .
  2. ^ Website HöhenArt Hürtgenwald - "The Association" ( Memento from June 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Franz Tiedtke: Tirelessly on the trail of great artists. In: Aachener Zeitung. August 11, 2012, accessed November 6, 2012 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 58.6 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 6.9 ″  E