Majorshof (Worms)

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The Majorshof is an important residential and town house in the style of a spacious villa , not far from the cathedral in the center of Worms . It was completely destroyed on February 21, 1945 during an Allied air raid on Worms towards the end of the Second World War and was not rebuilt afterwards. The main branch of the Sparkasse Worms-Alzey-Ried is located on the site .

history

Stele on the property of the Majorshof

The building, which was built in the neo-Renaissance style and completed in 1880, was located on a park-like plot of land that was laid out according to the plans of the Frankfurt horticultural architect Heinrich Siesmayer . It originated from the designs of the Cologne architect Hermann Otto Pflaume , who, in collaboration with the Munich interior designer Lorenz Gedon , had it built for the Worms entrepreneur and patron Maximilian von Heyl . Heyl sold the townscape-defining villa to his brother Cornelius Wilhelm when he moved to Darmstadt in 1890/91 . After his death, the new owners stuck to the name Majorshof , which was originally chosen to establish a connection with the rank of the builder Heyl, which he held in the war against France in 1870/71.

Furthermore, the Majorshof was an important meeting point on an artistic level in the city.

The remains of the building were completely removed, a stele on the property and the remains of the enclosure are the last structural evidence of the majorshof on site.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reviews in the "Badische Heimat". In: zum.de. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Building history - Museum Heylshof. In: heylshof.de. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Irene Spille / Otto Böcher: History of the City of Worms - Building History and Architectural Monuments (Worms in the 19th and 20th centuries until 1945) . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 777 .
  4. ↑ Fritz Reuter : History of the City of Worms - Between Reaction and Hessian Urban Order (1852-1874) . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8062-3158-8 , pp. 466 .
  5. ^ Jörg Koch: Marie-Elisabeth Klee: Life pictures of a European woman from Worms . 1st edition. Worms Verlag, Worms 2017, ISBN 978-3-944380-57-5 , pp. 15th f .
  6. ↑ Gabriele B. Clemens, Malte König, Marco Meriggi: High culture as an element of rule - Italian and German nobility in the long 19th century . De Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023568-5 , pp. 242 .
  7. ↑ Löwel, Georg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 52.8 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 30.5 ″  E