Parkstrasse 20 (Cologne)

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The Villa Park Road 20 is under monument protection standing monument in Cologne district of Marienburg and belongs to the villa colony Cologne-Marienburg . It was created in 1924 and 1925 for the merchant Willy Bleissem based on a design by the architect Paul Pott . From 1950 to 2000 the property served as the residence of the Ambassador of Brazil .

history

Since the development of today's Marienburg district as a residential area - in the middle of the second half of the 19th century - the triangular area between Kastanienallee, Unter den Ulmen and Parkstraße has been essentially owned by the wagon manufacturer Julius van der Zypen . In the years 1883 to 1887 he had a villa built in the French Neo-Renaissance style at Kastanienallee 27, based on a design by Cologne architect Wilhelm Schmitz (1850-1922) , which was demolished in 1936. After the First World War , the spacious area was gradually subdivided into parcels , in the course of which a larger part of Parkstrasse came into the possession of the building contractor Josef Bauwens . From this, the automobile dealer Willy Bleissem acquired the southern half in 1924, which in turn was located directly opposite the so-called Marienburg . Bleissem commissioned the architect Paul Pott with the planning. It was to be the largest and most beautiful property that Pott was able to build in Marienburg after the war. The sculptor Willy Meller (stucco work on the interior walls or, for example, the figural post in the stairwell) and the painters Josef Mangold and Heinrich Kron were particularly involved in the design . The park was based on a plan by the City Horticultural Director Fritz Encke . After the Second World War , the property finally came into the possession of the city ​​of Cologne via an intermediate owner .

After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , numerous states and their embassies settled in Marienburg . Villa Parkstrasse 20 was rented by the Republic of Brazil in 1950, which set up the residence of its embassy there, the residence of the ambassador (→ list of diplomatic missions ). In the course of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the Brazilian embassy moved there in the summer of 2000.

The villa was entered in the city ​​of Cologne's list of monuments on July 1, 1980 (monument no. 220).

architecture

With the ensemble designed in the style of a small, intimate country house , Paul Pott was able to fall back on German examples, such as the country houses by Paul Bonatz , which were highly popular at the time, as well as further developments in the English-speaking world. In the result, the contemporary critics particularly emphasized the "funny", small details such as the hood over the tea house, which is decorated with Japanese wall paintings by Josef Mangold, which is no longer available today. Inside the two-storey villa, which faces the garden with a one-storey kitchen wing with a girl's room above, this proverbial cheerfulness is continued in the form of Willy Meller's work.

Apart from minor modifications, the villa is largely in its original condition. So apart from the removed hood, the veranda on the kitchen wing was closed.

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 2, pp. 606–611.
  • Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development. (with photographs by Hans-Georg Esch) JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-2012-0 , pp. 73-76.
  • 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. 156-159.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wolfram Hagspiel: Marienburg. A Cologne villa district and its architectural development.
  3. ^ Federal Ministry of Finance (ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1070
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, number A 220

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 2.8 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 48.2 ″  E