Marienburger Strasse 43 (Cologne)

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The building at Marienburger Strasse 43 (including Eugen-Langen-Strasse 10 ) is a villa in the Marienburg district of Cologne , which was built in 1925/26 and belongs to the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony . It is part of a two units villa community and stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa, like the structurally connected neighboring house (Eugen-Langen-Straße 12), was built as the director's villa of the Rhenania-Kunheim Association. Chem. Fabriken AG based on a design by the architects Schreiterer & Below (Emil Schreiterer, Bernhard Below). Today's house at Eugen-Langen-Straße 10 served as the utility wing of the villa. In 1934 it was converted into an apartment building, the planning for this was done by the architect Paul Pott , who worked intensively in Marienburg .

In 1952 at the latest, the United Mexican States set up their embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn in the villa, which was now owned by the City of Cologne . It was home to both the office and the residence of the embassy, ​​the residence of the ambassador. In 1974, Mexico acquired the property from the city. The embassy chancellery including the consular department was located here in the former commercial wing of the villa (Eugen-Langen-Straße 10) until it was moved to Bonn around the turn of the year 1978/79. It then continued to serve as the residence of the embassy and at times was again the seat of the consular department. In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 . In 2000/01, following the sale of the building to private ownership, it was converted into a residential area.

The house was entered in Cologne's list of monuments on December 9, 1986.

architecture

The villa is two-storey and has a single-storey, original utility wing including garages (Eugen-Langen-Straße 10), which creates a connection across the corner to the neighboring villa Eugen-Langen-Straße 12. The lordly appearance of the building, also influenced by the Stuttgart school , is characterized by a brick façade borrowed from the Lower Rhine building tradition with ashlar structure and very steep, slate-covered hipped roofs . On the street front there is a lateral, cubic porch that accommodates the house entrance with a segmental arched door canopy and can be entered via a terrace on the upper floor.

An extensive hallway with stucco ceiling and edge and dominated by a column-framed fireplace serves as the central interior . In contrast to the neighboring house, the interior of Villa Marienburger Straße 43 has been preserved in its original state, with the exception of the largely redesigned former utility wing (as of 1996).

“With the use of brick as a material and the traditional house types that can still be recognized, the (...) system shows the intention, characteristic of this architecture firm, to translate regional trends from the past into the present and to reinterpret them. It is also important to note the function of the very steep roofs, which, as very solid but calm components, plastically connect the entire group. "

- Wolfram Hagspiel (1996)

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. 194–197.
  • Sabine Simon: Schreiterer & Below. A Cologne architecture office between historicism and modernity. Verlag Mainz, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89653-475-0 , p. 398/399 (also dissertation RWTH Aachen 1998).
  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 162-165.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, numbers A 3990 and A 3994
  2. ^ Address book of the federal capital Bonn 1952/53 , JF Carthaus, Bonn 1953, pp. 539/540 .
  3. ^ Greven's Cologne address book , III. Part, 106th edition, Greven, Cologne 1967, pp. 215, 496.
  4. ↑ Federal Ministry of Finance (Ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1954, p. 1555.
  5. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of March 1962)
  6. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (status: October 1978, February 1979)
  7. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of June 1981, November 1981)
  8. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of April 1995)
  9. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb .

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 1.9 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 9.4 ″  E