Upcoming Muffendorf
The Kommende Muffendorf was a branch of the Teutonic Order in Muffendorf , a current part of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn . The attached baroque castle or palace , built in the 18th century center, stands as a monument under monument protection .
location
The former Kommende Muffendorf lies on an area sloping from west to east at 84 m above sea level. NHN on the east side of Muffendorfer Hauptstraße (house numbers 65-89) and on the south side of the street An der Kommende . The associated park extends south to Benngasse and east to the houses on the western edge of Deutschherrenstrasse .
history
Originally a Carolingian royal villa, part of this property passed to the Cologne church . Archbishop Anno II gave this property to the Siegburg Monastery he founded . Abbot Gottfried von Siegburg gave, after the feudal owner Dietrich von Muffendorf renounced, a considerable part of the property in 1254 to the commander of the Teutonic Order in Ramersdorf . Because the possessions of the order grew rapidly, the Kommende Ramersdorf sold the property Muffendorf in 1304 to the Ballei Koblenz . This then founded its own commander in Muffendorf.
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In the 15th century, the coming experienced a crisis that threatened her existence. A large part of the property, including the building of the Kommende, had to be sold to the Godesberg Birgitten-Kloster Marienforst in 1458 . In 1496 the Kommende was again wholly owned by the Teutonic Order. Another decline took place in the 17th century. At times there was no longer a resident commander . The buildings fell into disrepair and the property was administered by the Kommende Waldbreitbach .
In 1713, Damian Casimir von Clodt zu Ehrenberg was again appointed a commander. His successor, Freiherr von Harff, had the construction of a new two-story Kommendenhaus begin in the Baroque style. Komtur Karl Adolf Freiherr von Greiffenklau also contributed to the expansion. A chapel and servants' house were also newly built.
At the time of the French occupation (1794–1815), the Coming was secularized and became a state domain . The property was later sold to a Cologne merchant who in turn sold it to Karl Joseph von Fürstenberg . He had the Coming House rebuilt and expanded in the neo-Gothic style around 1860 . The buildings of the Kommende, the main building (Palais) and the farm building ( Remise ), which have survived to this day, go back to this renovation phase .
At the end of 1898 the Kommende was acquired by Joseph Mayer (1857–1914), who removed the neo-Gothic elements and restored the baroque forms. In 1890 Joseph Mayer had Pauline Elisabeth b. Pfeifer (1869–1953) married, daughter of the Cologne entrepreneur Valentin Pfeifer (1837–1909), who participated in the purchase and also there in the summer with his wife Hedwig, nee. Matzerath (1843–1911) took up residence. Both couples are buried in Muffendorf in the cemetery near the church of Alt St. Martin . The grave site is looked after by the family and is a protected nature and monument.
Even before the death of the last owner, the Kingdom of Belgium acquired the estate in 1952 in order to set up the residence of its ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn (→ Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium (Bonn) ). For this purpose, renovations were carried out until 1954 under the direction of the Bonn architect Wilhelm Denninger . In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the Belgian embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 . The Coming Muffendorf was now empty. In 2006 Belgium was able to sell the property with a total area of 2.3 hectares to a Cologne real estate developer, who had the property converted into an upscale residential complex in 2007/08 after an unsuccessful sale attempt. The historic buildings of the Coming House (Palais and Remise) were renovated and divided into condominiums . On the 1.6 hectare park area , two new residential buildings with further condominiums (thus a total of 24) were built in a U-shaped - overall courtyard-shaped - arrangement to the palace and remise, which are based on the baroque shapes of the old buildings.
literature
- Handbook of the historical sites of Germany, Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia. Stuttgart 1970, p. 530.
- Chronicle of the Pfeifer family , around 1975 (only published in the family circle).
- Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 40-41.
Web links
- Irmgard Wolf: Coming Muffendorf. In: General-Anzeiger (edition September 10, 2006)
- Material on Commende Muffendorf in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 42, number A 3858
- ^ A b Rudolf Agstner : Representation - Embassy - Branch Office: an obituary for Austria's diplomatic mission in Bonn from 1950 to 2006 . In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein, Stadtarchiv Bonn (ed.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook of the Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Volume 55/56, Bonn 2006, ISSN 0068-0052 , pp. 293–326 (here: p. 308).
- ↑ From the seat of the knights to the luxury palace , General-Anzeiger , December 1, 2004
- ↑ This time the contract does not contain a right of withdrawal , General-Anzeiger, March 4, 2006
- ↑ Muffendorf coming to the German order shines in new splendor ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 101 kB), Pandion, press release July 2008
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 14.7 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 42.4" E