Lippe's country house

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Lippesches Landhaus, manor house (2008)

The Lippesche Landhaus (also Lippesches Palais ) is a palace in Oberkassel , a district of the Bonn district of Beuel , which was built between 1750 and 1760. It is located on the east side of Königswinterer Straße (house numbers 705–709). The Lippesche country house consisting of two houses, stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The Lippesche Landhaus was built as a baroque pleasure palace based on a design by the architect and builder Johann Conrad Schlaun for Johann Gerhard Edler von Meinertzhagen (1682–1761) from Cologne , an electoral Palatinate councilor and penny master of the Westphalian district , and his wife Margaretha du Fay , who came from Frankfurt . The exact construction period of the house could not yet be determined; in a wisdom of the bishop's court in Oberkassel ("Buschhof") from August 4, 1751, however, a property is already recorded that was leased from Meinertzhagen. After the death of Meinertzhagens, the property passed into the possession of Count Friedrich Wilhelm zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (1737-1803) through the marriage of his daughter Elisabeth Johanna (1752-1811) . At that time, the property comprised a manor house and two projecting side wings - the northern one ( cavalier's house ) with a garden hall and garden building, the southern one with a coach house - to the south a farmyard with half- timbered buildings (dated 1764). was upstream. The gardens were redesigned in the Rococo style at the beginning of the 19th century by Peter Joseph Lenné the Elder

Site plan (1907)

The counts and later princes of Lippe-Biesterfeld remained in possession of the country house for 209 years. According to tradition, Ludwig van Beethoven worked in the house as a piano teacher for the family's daughters. In 1902 the Grafregent Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld had a park with a tea house and pavilion built as far as the Rhine . From him the estate came for a short time to his older son, the last ruling prince, Prince Leopold IV. Zur Lippe, who was born here in 1871, and the house and estate in 1905, together with the Heisterbach Abbey , whose choir ruins are used as a burial place Family served, transferred to his brother, Prince Bernhard zur Lippe. He also lived on the Reckenwalde estate ( Posen province ). His son Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld became Prince Consort of the Netherlands.

In 1930 the farm buildings were demolished. The southern side wing fell victim to the Second World War , and an annex was added to the northern wing after the war. Financial problems of the princely family led to a lack of care and maintenance of the property in the following period. In 1952 the municipality of Oberkassel took over the part of the property reaching as far as the Rhine to set up a public park . At the end of the 1950s, renovation efforts were made for the last time by the house owner at the time, Ernst August Prinz zur Lippe; In 1970 he and his family moved to Syburg Castle in Middle Franconia . In 1979 the pension scheme of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects acquired the Lippesche Landhaus. An extensive restoration followed from 1980 to 1982, after which the Federal Chamber of Architects took its seat in the manor house of the Palais in September 1982. The remaining part of the property, the Kavaliershaus (north side wing), was rented out commercially.

After the Federal Chamber of Architects moved to Berlin in 1999 and the commercial premises were vacant, the Pension Fund of the Chamber of Architects sold the Lippesche Landhaus in private ownership at the end of 2002. One of the new owners moved into the mansion, while the upper part of the Kavaliershaus was converted into rental apartments and the lower part for commercial use.

architecture

The palace is divided into the manor house (Königswinterer Straße 709) and the Kavaliershaus (Königswinterer Straße 705-707), which have no structural connection. The mansion is single-storey in plastered quarry stone and brick on a square floor plan. It comprises seven window axes on the street and garden front and three on the sides with rounded corners, which are typical of the architect Schlaun. A two-storey, gable-crowned central projection protrudes slightly on each of the front facades, occupying three window axes and having corner pilasters and glare fields . The upper end of the building is formed by a steep mansard roof with curved dormers . The gable bears the owner's coat of arms (Meinertzhagen / du Fay). The inner room structure of the manor house in the sense of a baroque pleasure palace has been preserved.

The Kavaliershaus is the former north wing of the palace, which includes a hall of mirrors . The forecourt has old trees and is separated from Königswinterer Straße by a wall with the entrance gate. The property has a total area of ​​3000 m², the mansion and cavalier house contain a living and usable area of ​​approx. 1,500 m².

literature

Web links

Commons : Lippesches Landhaus  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 1
  2. ^ Elisabeth Johanna Countess von Meinertshagen , University of Erlangen
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf zur Lippe-Biesterfeld , University of Erlangen
  4. ↑ a b c Provinzialverband der Rheinprovinz (ed.); Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the Siegkreis
  5. ↑ a b Conferences and seminars in the old hall of mirrors , General-Anzeiger , May 16, 2003
  6. ^ A b c Federal City of Bonn: Monument Preservation Plan Bonn-Beuel. Urban development planning Bonn (PDF), Bonn 2003
  7. ↑ Monument trails in the Beuel district ( Memento from October 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Beuel am Rhein e. V.
  8. ^ Karl Gutzmer : Chronicle of the city of Bonn . Chronik-Verlag, Dortmund 1988, ISBN 3-611-00032-9 , p. 265.
  9. ↑ The Lippesche Landhaus is considered an exemplary example of monument protection , General-Anzeiger, October 15, 1985, Bonn city edition, p. 10
  10. ↑ a b The Lippesche Palais is for sale , General-Anzeiger, March 1, 2001, Bonner Stadtausgabe, p. 10

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 1.3 ″  E