Villa Beckmannshagen
The Villa Beckmannshagen is under monument protection standing villa in Wuppertal district Langer field on the road Beyeröhde . Until mid-2020, it housed the Children's Museum Showcase School & Children's Art , as well as other service companies. Real estate companies have their place of business on the upper floors.
description
The simple two-storey factory owner's villa was built in 1911 for the entrepreneur Friedrich Beckmannshagen , who ran the belt factory opposite. The parent company of Beckmannshagen, the Bergisches Fachwerkhaus Beyeröhde 9 , still exists today and, like the band factory, is a listed building.
The west side of the building is designed with three axes, with the middle axis protruding as a trapezoidal risalit on both floors . Above this porch is a gable with a mansard roof in the expanded gable roof . The two axes on the side of the risalit are provided with simple window openings with four-winged windows, which are provided with small-piece braced skylights . The weakly profiled stucco work corresponds to the architectural style of the functional on the ground floor and the floral Art Nouveau on the upper floors. The house is accessed via a single flight of stairs on the south side.
When Beckmannshagen died, the villa was bequeathed to his older son, the factory to the younger son. On September 12, 1996 the villa was listed as a historical monument. In 2002 a real estate agent bought the house from a family member who uses the first floor and the attic for his company after renovation. In 2009 the children's museum was extensively renovated.
Use (1986-2015)
Since the spring of 1986, the privately operated children's museum, Schaufenster Schule & Kinderkunst , has been located on the ground floor of the villa . It was the first museum of its kind in Germany and the only one that presented art by and for children, with around a hundred exhibits, although the target audience is not just limited to children. The art teacher Margret Beckmannshagen is the initiator of the project. The museum was run by the sponsoring association of the same name, “Kindermuseum-Schaufenster Schule & Kinderkunst eV”. The exhibits on display include a variety of original sound instruments.
International postcard painting competitions were also held annually. Around 70,000 postcard images from 71 countries have come together over time. Around 1000 pictures are presented in the annually changing exhibition. Courses for children in pottery, painting and making music were also offered. The museum had limited opening times.
In July 2020, the end of the museum was announced for financial reasons.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kindermuseum Wuppertal - Schaufenster Schule & Kinderkunst ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed March 2009
- ↑ Luftgeister in the Children's Museum Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from November 20, 2004
- ↑ According to another source ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2000.
- ↑ Milka Vidovic: Langerfeld: Sad end for the children's museum. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Wuppertaler Rundschau, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Andreas Boller: Opening mt Genscher: Wuppertal Children's Museum attracted “big animals”. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
See also
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Children's museum website
- Children's museum at wuppertal.de
- The children's museum at the Federal Association of German Children's and Youth Museums
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 28.2 " N , 7 ° 14 ′ 57.7" E