Mehlem's house

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Mehlem's House (2010)
Mehlem'sches Haus, aerial photo (2015)

The Mehlem'sche Haus (also Haus Mehlem ) is a former palace in Beuel , a district of Bonn , which was built in the middle of the 18th century. It is located near the banks of the Rhine and the south side of the Kennedy Bridge on Rheinaustraße (number 131). The Mehlem'sche House stands as a monument under monument protection . It has been used by the Bonn City Music School since 1979 .

history

Both the exact year of construction and the architect of the building are unknown. It was created around 1750 for the married couple Johannes Paul Mehlem (1723–1782) and Elisabeth Stammel on the former site of the Beueler Schanze . Mehlem was the son of a Bonn Schiffer family and had 1745 the daughter of Leonhard Stammel, the so-called. "Bridge master" of the village Combahn married, whose family as owner of Fährgerechtsame also "flying bridge" called greed rope ferry operating between Bonn and Beuel and to adjacent the Beueler Anlegestelle owned a house and a boat shed and ran agriculture. Mehlem succeeded his father-in-law as bridge master. During the heavy flooding in February 1784 , the farm buildings belonging to Mehlem's house were destroyed and then rebuilt. The inscription on the keystone of an archway at the main building preserved namely include the year 1785. The house had because of low buildings around a formative view of place position in the Rhine panorama of Beuel.

Around 1843 Johann Wilhelm Windgassen (1779–1852), the founder of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte near Troisdorf , moved into the property and lived here as a pensioner until his death. In 1885 the Mehlem'sche house was divided into five apartments and, presumably at the same time, a two-storey loggia with a balcony was added on the south side . Subsequent residents included August Wilhelm Andernach (1862–1942), manufacturer and founder of a tar production plant in Beuel in 1888. Towards the end of the 19th century, the building lost its urban dominance due to the further development of Beuel. After several changes of ownership, the house became the property of the city of Bonn in 1917, which wanted to use the property for a planned but not executed widening of the neighboring Rhine bridge . As a result, she continued to rent it out as an apartment building . The former outbuildings of the property have not been preserved in the course of the 20th century.

After the Second World War , the condition of the building deteriorated increasingly: the facade peeled off, parts of the entrance stairs broke away and the grille on the roof was lost. The city therefore intended to demolish the house around 1970. In 1975 the “Verein Haus Mehlem e. V. “(today: Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch eV ), which successfully campaigned for the city to renovate the building. It began in 1977, took 1.2 million D-Marks and was completed by the time the property was re-opened as the Beuel site of the city music school on August 27, 1979.

In 2012 the Mehlem'sche house was renovated again.

architecture

The late Baroque main building from the middle of the 18th century is a three-storey cube with five window axes on the exposed side facing the Rhine . It is closed at the top by a mansard roof, on which a platform serving as a belvedere with a bronze grille is placed. At the side of the building there are gateways, one of which contains the year 1785 in its keystone and which leads to a rear, park-like garden. The street-side entrance is higher up and surrounded by a small double staircase. The windows of the full floors are framed by sandstone , the corners of the building are adorned with square pilasters .

Due to its simple but representative design and the associated gardens from the beginning, Mehlem'sche Haus can be classified as a palace . In Bonn, it has a building-time equivalent in the Fürstenbergisches Palais on Münsterplatz and the Metternicher Hof, which was formerly located on the banks of the Rhine (demolished around 1905) and is one of the few remaining canonical and patrician houses in the city.

"The facade facing the Rhine illustrates the" appropriateness "of the building with its simple forms, which was an important part of the architectural theory of the time."

- Andreas Denk (1997)

literature

  • City of Bonn (ed.): The Mehlem'sche house in Beuel. Once and now (=  studies on the local history of the Bonn-Beuel district . Volume 21 ). Bonn 1979, DNB  800882059 .
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 126.

Web links

Commons : Mehlem'sches Haus  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 3952
  2. ↑ a b Haus Mehlem - information board , Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e. V. accessed on November 16, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Documentary The Mehlemsche House and its Rescue by Georg Divossen , accessed on November 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ Manfred Spata: The millennial flood of 1784 in Bonn and Beuel (= Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch eV [Ed.]: Small contributions to memorials and history in Bonn on the right bank of the Rhine . Volume 4 ). Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9812164-5-5 (40 pages).
  5. ↑ Horst Heidermann : The Wuppertal villas and apartments - search for traces on the Rhine . In: Geschichte im Wuppertal , vol. 20, 2011, p. 5. ( online PDF ; 1.9 MB)
  6. ^ Franz Josef Talbot , Judith Loosen: Monument paths in the Beuel district . Ed .: Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Beuel am Rhein. 2nd Edition. Bonn 2004 (40 pages). - Digitized version ( memento from October 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b Mehlem'sche Haus in Beuel: "A fresh cell treatment would be necessary" , General-Anzeiger , August 27, 2009
  8. ↑ Information board at the house (photo)
  9. ↑ Renovation work should be finished in November , General-Anzeiger, August 1, 2012
  10. ^ Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn . Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 (188 pages).

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 50.8 ″  E