Oberland Ufer 208

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The Oberländer Ufer 208 building is a villa in the Marienburg district of Cologne , which was built in 1911/12 and belongs to the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony . It is located as a solitary building about 100 m west of the banks of the Rhine and north of the military ring road ( Bundesstraße 9 ). The villa stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

Gate and access to the property at Oberländer Ufer 208
Stumbling blocks for Moritz, Susanne and Maria Bing

The villa was built for the client Heinrich Bales, a decorative painter and master chimney sweep , based on a design by the architect Heinrich Müller-Erkelenz . In 1915/16 the house was extended to the side with a single storey. The Jewish lawyer Moritz Bing had been the resident of the house since 1915 and the owner of the Oberländer Ufer 208 and 206a properties from 1916 . In 1938 he fled to Switzerland after the November pogroms . According to Reichsanzeiger No. 143 , his property was declared "forfeited to the Reich" on June 23, 1941. Compensation claims of his heirs for the return of the property were later settled with a settlement payment of 35,000 DM for the house damaged in the war.

After Bonn in 1949 the seat of government had become the Federal Republic of Germany, the villa later than served from December 1949, the date of initial accreditation , the residence of the embassy (1954 message) - residence of the ambassador and later ambassador - the Union of South Africa (from 1961 Republic of South Africa ). Major General William Henry Evered Poole initially resided in the villa as head of the mission . The villa served as the residence of the South African embassy until it moved to Bonn in 1975.

The villa was entered in the city ​​of Cologne's list of monuments on January 4, 1991.

architecture

The villa is designed on the model of English country houses . It has an angular floor plan , with the southern and eastern front facing the Rhine being designed as a visible side. In contrast to numerous buildings in the Marienburg district, the gable surfaces are shingled . The property also includes a coach house to the east in the park , which, unlike the villa , has not been preserved unchanged after destruction in the Second World War and a reconstruction carried out in 1950 by the City of Cologne's Building Department .

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. 563/564.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, number A 5859
  2. ↑ Klaus Luig : ... because he is not of Aryan descent. Jewish lawyers in Cologne during the Nazi era . 1st edition. Publishing house Dr. Schmidt, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-504-01012-6 , pp. 113-115 .
  3. ^ Address book of the federal capital Bonn 1949/50 . In: City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 222.
  4. ↑ Foreign Office : List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of April 1974)

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 2.5 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 57.2 ″  E