Lindenallee 51 (Cologne)

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The Lindenallee 51 building is a villa in the Marienburg district of Cologne , which was built in 1927/28 and belongs to the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa was built for the client Hermann Neuerburg (1890–1937), a tobacco manufacturer, based on a design by the architect Emil Felix , who had already implemented several building projects for the Neuerburg family . As a “palace” in the late Baroque style, it was probably the last historic building in Cologne. The reason for the specific design of the villa were numerous art treasures acquired as spoils . Wolfgang Wallner worked as a sculptor on the new building and Carl Wyland as a blacksmith . At the same time as the villa, an associated chauffeur and garage house (Lindenallee 80) was built on the opposite side of the street, also according to Emil Felix's plans. In 1931 a garden house based on a design by the same architect was added. A demarcation under house number 49 took place in 1931 in the rear garden area of ​​the house for a villa also belonging to the Neuerburg family.

During the Second World War , the villa served as part of the Cologne University of Music . For them, the property was restored from 1946 after the damage suffered in the war, which partially affected the main staircase and the roof. The final restoration of the villa took place in 1950/51 for the British occupying forces . The adjoining Villa Lindenallee 49 was also damaged in the war and - after being used by the British occupying forces - was replaced by a single-family house in 1949 , the style of which can be attributed to the traditionalist Stuttgart school .

From 1962 to 1973 the villa was the residence of the Ambassador of Japan in the Federal Republic of Germany at the Bonn government seat (→ Embassy of Japan (Bonn) ). The single-family house Lindenallee 49, located in the garden area of ​​the villa, also belonged to it. The building then served as the headquarters of the Wema Institute for empirical social research , computer science and applied cybernetics , which was commissioned by federal and state authorities to develop concepts for reforming planning and personnel structures was commissioned. After the company's bankruptcy towards the end of the 1970s, the furniture in the villa, which had 25 rooms at the time, was seized . The villa was entered in the city ​​of Cologne's list of monuments on August 13, 1991.

architecture

The property consists of a two -storey , including a mansard, three-storey main plastered mansion building and a one-storey utility wing that originally housed the kitchen and staff room. The appearance of the villa is characterized by reddish sandstone and white woodwork on the windows. The balcony on the garden side is supported by a loggia . The hipped roof comes from the restoration after the war damage, in the course of which a colonnade serving as a connection between the Brunnenhof (“Tuscan Renaissance arcade courtyard ”) and the garden pavilion was removed. The villa is delimited from the street by two wrought iron portals as part of the fence , to the south it is embedded in an extensive park .

A large, wood-paneled foyer with a stucco ceiling in the Renaissance style serves as the central interior . The former men's room , facing the street, is designed in Gothic shapes with tracery . The original interior design includes an original Rococo stair railing, revised by Carl Wyland. An epitaph from 1569 can be found on the eastern outer facade .

“Even if the time of origin of this old masterly designed villa coincides with the first great successes of the“ Bauhaus ”and the“ New Building ”, so the building appears extremely anachronistic, then the architect's sense of style and the craftsmanship of the building are what counts in it participating artists and artisans to admire to the utmost. "

- Wolfram Hagspiel (2007)

See also

literature

  • Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 1, pp. 416-422.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-2012-0 , pp. 104, 108–110 (images).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, number A 6142
  2. ^ Reference in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development.
  4. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 1, p. 446.
  5. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of March 1962, March 1973)
  6. ^ Greven's Cologne address book, III. Part, 106th edition, Greven, Cologne 1967, p. 19.
  7. ↑ Real Battle , Der Spiegel , November 5, 1973
  8. ↑ Fledderhaftes Aufwühlen , Der Spiegel, October 27, 1986
  9. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa suburb and its architectural development .

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 40.4 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 14.9"  E