Margarethenhof (Ittenbach)

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Margarethenhof (2009)
Margarethenhof, aerial photo (2014)

The Margarethenhof is the Hotel incurred building complex on the Margarethenhöhe , too Ittenbach belonging district of the city Koenigswinter in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhein-Sieg-Kreis . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The Margarethenhof building complex is located on the pass-like Margarethenhöhe ( 320  m above sea  level ) on the south side of Landesstraße 331 opposite the Margarethenkreuz inn . On the western edge of the property, which is surrounded on three sides by forest, runs Löwenburger Straße , which is an asphalt road leading to Löwenburger Hof .

history

Margarethenhof and later Margaret Cross, postcard (1905)

The Margarethenhof was in 1900 as a tourist restaurant by the Steinhauer built Franz Bachem, owner of Guts opposite Margaret (cross) courtyard that with the opening of the Margarethenhof 1903 as one of the past three guest houses on the Margarethenhohe Margaret Cross has been renamed. In its current form, the Margarethenhof was built in 1928 when it was converted into a representative hotel building in the style of homeland security architecture , in which it was given a surrounding terrace and a garden bar (no longer existing today).

“The excursion restaurant (...) was converted into a representative hotel building in 1928, which uses the typical forms of the Heimatschutz style and transfers the construction of the small country house to a larger scale. The surrounding terrace, which is like a wreath around the ground floor, is indispensable. "

- Angelika Schyma (1992)

After the Second World War , the hotel was confiscated and served as accommodation for refugees until August 1949 . A subsequent resumption of hotel operations was initiated by the owner of the Margarethenhof through extensive investments, but could not be successful due to a renewed confiscation for the Allied High Commission (AHK) on November 7, 1949. After being vacant until March 1950, the Margarethenhof was used as a guest house for the British High Commission for a few months . The property was released again in the spring of 1951 due to the AHK's space requirements being covered by other means. At the time of the confiscation, some renovations were carried out, the necessary removal of which led the owner of the hotel into financial difficulties.

At the beginning of 1984 - the official opening took place on May 5, 1984 - was the seat of Margarethenhof previously in Bonn -based FDP ready or almost ready Friedrich Naumann Foundation , which expand the complex to a growing and by 1990 at a cost of 6.5 million D -Mark had it converted into a congress and conference center. The foundation also used the neighboring Sophienhof . As a result of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin , she sold the privately owned Margarethenhof in 1998 and moved to Potsdam at the turn of the year 1999/2000 .

The new owner was a real estate company , which from 1999 rented the Margarethenhof to an operator of old people's homes as its head office and filed for bankruptcy in 2001 . While parts of the Margarethenhof were moved into again in 2002 by the Beautification Association for the Siebengebirge (VVS), the majority of the property was no longer maintained from 2003 and was left to decay. In 2004 the VVS set up a permanent exhibition about the Siebengebirge in the courtyard's pavilion with the nature park house . In 2006 the property was sold with a total usable office space of around 2,500  m² and, after the completion of extensive renovation and modernization work, was leased to a sales company for laboratory equipment in 2009 . Among other things, the leaseholder re-used the representative rooms on the ground floor as a conference and event location , and other office rooms are (sub) let. In 2011 the VVS moved to the nearby, club's own forester's house in Lohrberg .

The building was entered in the town of Königswinter's list of monuments on October 16, 1989.

literature

Web links

Commons : Margarethenhof (Ittenbach)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 122
  2. ↑ Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter (= monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.). P. 55.
  3. ^ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 63–64.
  4. ^ Naumann Foundation celebrates new domicile with brass music and cabaret , General-Anzeiger, May 7, 1984, p. 4.
  5. ^ New restaurant in the "Puppenhaus" accessible to all , General-Anzeiger , February 22, 1984, p. 7.
  6. ↑ Where the FDP leadership once met , Die Welt , May 22, 2001, p. 17.
  7. ↑ Refugium wants to buy buildings from the Naumann Foundation , General-Anzeiger, March 11, 1998, p. 6.
  8. ^ Foundation runs until the end of 1999 , General-Anzeiger, December 31, 1998, p. 6; Margarethen- and Sophienhof , General-Anzeiger, March 18, 2004, p. 6.
  9. ↑ The administrator now looks after things are right , General-Anzeiger, April 27, 2005
  10. ↑ The Margarethenhof awakens from deep sleep , General-Anzeiger, April 25, 2006; "Die Höfe" are created on Margarethenhöhe , General-Anzeiger, March 6, 2007; New life in Ittenbacher Margarethenhof , General-Anzeiger, February 27, 2009
  11. ^ Relocation to the forester's house in Lohrberg is imminent , General-Anzeiger, October 12, 2011; Kreis supports the VVS , General-Anzeiger, August 26, 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 34.4 "  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 59.6"  E