Electoral Gardener's House (Bonn)
The Electoral Gardener's House is located in the Weststadt district of Bonn on the corner of Wittelsbacherring and Beethovenplatz . The historic building is located on the northeast side of a small park known as a tree nursery . The baroque building from the second half of the 18th century stands with the remains of the site of the former electoral nursery as a monument under monument protection .
history
Around 1720, Elector Joseph Clemens von Bayern created the Baumschulwäldchen , a tree nursery set up as a park. At that time the facility covered an area of around seven acres . Elector Maximilian Franz of Austria often stayed in the park that he valued; he used it for target shooting or for social events and had a small "pleasure house" built for this purpose. This building was soon used as a horticulturist run restaurant. They sold dairy and garden products to visitors here, as well as coffee. After the University of Bonn was founded in 1818 , the park and the houses became part of the university. The little inn was leased from them; The changing operators included traders and student associations. Until the middle of the 20th century, the building was popularly known as the “milk house”.
In 1908 the city took over the horticultural care of the park, which had been reduced in size. As a result, the house served as a storage room for garden tools. In World War II it was heavily damaged; the destroyed object was not used until 1952. Then the reconstruction took place with state funds. In 1956/57 the city handed over the building to the cultural administration, which has since used it as an art pavilion. In 1971 modifications and extensions were carried out. Even today, artists from Bonn use the object, which has been known as the “Electoral Gardener's House” since 1960, for changing exhibitions. The exhibition building is operated by the sponsoring association for the Bonn Artists' Forum, Hochstadenring and the Electoral Gardener's House. Up to 17 three-week exhibitions take place here every year.
architecture
The delicate single-storey building in a baroque design has a floor area of around 50 square meters. It is on a rectangular floor plan. The building is covered by a slate hipped roof. The front is oriented towards today's Wittelsbacher Ring and has a gable with a semicircular window; this side is divided by two pilasters . There are three windows in the back. On the earlier, windowless entrance side in the north, a relief plate is walled in, which depicts the anointing of Christ by Mary Magdalene .
In 1971, a flat, square extension facing the park with a floor area of 36 square meters was built on the west side. A glass entrance area connects the two buildings. For this purpose, a former window in the gardener's house was converted into a door. Several window niches in the interior were compensated for by built-in wood to create smooth walls for hanging pictures. Around 70 square meters of space are available for art exhibitions.
The gardener's house is surrounded to the south by multi-storey residential buildings from the Wilhelminian era ; one is the seat of the Corps Saxonia Bonn .
Exhibitions (selection)
In the electoral gardener's house exhibited (chronologically): Gerhard Neumann (1959), Hilde Stock-Sylvester (1960, 1984, 1991, 1994 and 2014), Clemens Pasch (1961), Kurt-Wolf von Borries (1963), Ernst Wille (1966), Willy Maria Stucke (1967), Irma Hünerfauth (1968 and 1974), Ernemann Sander (1977), Alf Bayrle (1980), Wilhelm Holzhausen (1982), Janet Brooks Gerloff (1982), Sabine Odensaß (1985), Karl Raetsch (1994) and Hellmuth Eichner (2002).
See also
Web links
- Entry by Jon Umme on the Electoral Gardener's House and Nursery Grove Bonn in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
- The Kurfürstliche Gärtnerhaus , website of the sponsoring association for the Künstlerforum Bonn, Hochstadenring and the Kurfürstliche Gärtnerhaus eV
References and comments
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 10, number A 1700
- ↑ Christian Neuhuber , Lenz-Bilder: Imagery in Büchner's Stories and Their Reception in the Fine Arts , Volume 77 of Literature and Life , ISBN 978-3-20578-3-800 , Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 2009, p. 261, footnote 202
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '52.1 " N , 7 ° 5' 21.8" E