Malteserhof

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Malteserhof, main building with four-story tower (2014)
Malteserhof, former coach house and farm building (2014)

The Malteserhof is a former country estate in Römlinghoven , a district of the city of Königswinter in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district . The farm stands as a monument under monument protection . Today he owns a private flat share.

location

The former estate is located at Malteserstraße 52 in the center of Römlinghoven, a part of the city of Königswinter belonging to the Oberdollendorf district. It is located, including a one- hectare park, on the eastern edge of the village, which rises towards the Siebengebirge , at about 68  m above sea level. NHN .

history

The Malteserhof is said to have existed as early as the end of the 13th century and was owned by the Teutonic Order . Its mention is secured in a document from 1540 as the property of the Junker Johann Edelkirchen. In addition to arable land and forest as a winery , the estate also owned vineyards. It was one of seven Freihöfe that sent a jury to the so-called Markgedinge of the parish of Oberdollendorf, which existed until the beginning of the 19th century . From 1593 the farm belonged to the German Order Coming Boys-Biesen . In the course of secularization , it became state property and leased in 1803.

On May 30, 1820, the estate was auctioned off by the Prussian domain administration: the new owner was the writer Philipp Joseph Rehfues , the curator of the newly founded Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After Rehfues's death, Hugo Peill acquired the estate. During this time the buildings that are preserved today were built with a country villa as the main building and the spacious park. Peill bequeathed the house to his daughter Caroline Josefa, the wife of the composer Max von Schillings . The couple lived there for a few years and von Schillings set up a music room in the house.

During the First World War , the Malteserhof was used as quarters for English and Canadian soldiers. The stone manufacturer Max Giessing bought the property in 1917, and in 1936 his widow sold the house to Montagne von Lillienskiold, the director of the Pfeifer & Langen sugar factory in Dormagen . At the time of purchase, the farm consisted of 24 acres of land, residential and farm buildings , a park, farmland and orchards. In the following years, the new owner bought a few acres of land and also leased land, so that the farm was soon cultivating 40 acres. In addition, there was the purchase of cattle and the expansion of the nursery. The Malteserhof became a large farm.

During the Second World War , the main building was badly damaged by an artillery shell. During the reconstruction in the post-war period, it was decided to build the residential building one floor lower. The farm was expanded: In addition to 40 acres of own land, 16 acres were leased and new staff were hired. But the farm soon began to decline. In the 1950s the estate was managed by a manager. Much land was lost due to the progressive development of the region, and rising labor costs made management unprofitable. The owner distributed the land to his three children and in 1965 handed over the buildings, the park and part of the nursery to his eldest son Peter von Lillienskiold. In the same year he leased the nursery to an ecumenical welfare organization. The former stables of the farm were converted into living, office and conference rooms. The apple room was transformed into a Protestant and the tower room into a Catholic chapel. After the departure of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Laurentius Convent took over the Malteserhof as its headquarters. When the convent moved out in the 1970s, the courtyard was barely used.

In 1981 the Protestant parish of An Sieg und Rhein acquired the farm and operated it as a leisure and conference center. On March 23, 1987, he was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter. In November 2013, the church district announced that the farm would be sold by 2016 in order to reduce the church district's budget deficit. The Malteserhof was closed in April 2016 and sold to a bidding consortium with effect from June 30, 2016. A private housing project is planned there.

Malteserhof, Panorama (2009)
Malteserhof, view of the inner courtyard (2011)

architecture

The once four-story manor house from the middle of the 19th century was rebuilt in three stories after severe damage in the Second World War and is a late classical , three-axis plastered building . The facade of the four-storey, crenellated tower on the southeast side, which was added in 1872, has been preserved in the original. The flat roof was replaced by a gable roof, the large lattice windows with round arches were retained. Two-storey extensions are connected to the main building: on the north-west corner the former staff wing, a plastered building, as well as the former coach house and farm building from the end of the 19th century, a two-storey angular building, the ground floor partly in brick , partly plastered and on the upper floor is in the country house style in half-timbered construction with protruding roofs and has wooden balconies and stairs.

The park is demarcated from the street by a high quarry stone wall, has old trees and houses a pond with rock, which was originally fed by the later canalised Grundelbach , as well as a grotto made of grottos with a semicircular niche and a small fountain on the western park wall .

literature

Web links

Commons : Malteserhof  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 61
  2. ^ Paul Egon Hübinger: Selected essays and lectures: Contributions to the history of Europe and the Rhineland in the Middle Ages and modern times . Volume 53 of the Bonn historical research, Verlag F. Schmitt, 1990, p. 537
  3. ↑ Beethoven House Association. 1889-1989 . Verlag Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, 1989, p. 33
  4. ↑ a b c Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 23.5.)
  5. ^ A b Ferdinand Schmitz: The Mark Dollendorf.
  6. ^ Church sold Malteserhof , General-Anzeiger Bonn , November 19, 2013
  7. ↑ Malteserhof closes at the end of April , press release by the Evangelical Church District to Sieg und Rhein, March 31, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 31.7 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 3.2 ″  E