Parkstrasse 8 (Cologne)

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The Villa Park Road 8 is under monument protection standing monument in Cologne district of Marienburg and belongs to the villa colony Cologne-Marienburg . It was created in 1914 and 1915 for the merchant and factory owner Wilhelm Auerbach based on a design by the architect Paul Pott .

history

Originally the property was Parkstr. 8 Part of the area of ​​the "P. Kyll machine factory". After they had been relocated, the newspaper publisher Josef Neven DuMont had acquired the premises, had the factory buildings laid down and first had a spacious villa and park built for himself - also based on a design by Paul Pott - ( Parkstrasse 5 ). After extending Parkstraße in a northerly direction via his property, DuMont sold the middle building plot to the west of the new street - with a street front of a good 32 meters and an average depth of 42 meters - to the manufacturer Wilhelm Auerbach in 1913. He in turn commissioned Paul Pott with the planning for a villa, which was completed by 1915. During the period of National Socialism Auerbach sold his possession. The new owner had a garage and a protective bunker built in 1938/1939; the planning for this work was in the hands of the architect Heinrich Reinhardt (1883–1972).

The property remained intact during the Second World War . After the war one took place seizure by the British occupying power at the latest after the entry into force of the occupation statute for the purpose of the Allied High Commission (1949-1955), the British worked at senior positions housed. In 1956 it was converted into a two-family house, again based on a design by Heinrich Reinhardt. The room layouts were partially changed and the main staircase inside was removed.

The villa was entered in the city ​​of Cologne's list of monuments on June 4, 1987 (monument no. 4168).

Business advertisement company Max Spiegelberg, 1912/13

The builder

Wilhelm Auerbach (born August 22, 1876 in Vreden; † unknown) was a son of the Jewish merchant Bendix (Benjamin) Auerbach and Johanna, geb. Hamlet. A few years after his birth, his parents moved to Cologne, where other relatives were already living. There, like his older brothers Selmar and Max Auerbach, he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium , which he left at Easter 1895 when he passed the school- leaving examination in order to move into the commercial sector. Even before the First World War, he was a partner in the “Max Spiegelberg” company, which initially offered a vinegar spirit - and from 1 July 1913 in Deutz at 110 Siegburger Str Wine vinegar factory operated. According to its own advertisement, it was the oldest and most renowned "House of Rhineland and Westphalia". In the course of the increasingly difficult living conditions for Jews, Wilhelm Auerbach emigrated from Germany.

architecture

“As a special characteristic”, the villa , which is kept in the style of English country houses , has one of the English architecture of the 16th and 17th centuries. Century or the contemporary borrowed skeletonized resolution of the window arrangement . The south-facing main facade of the house in its three axes defines the interior layout with three rooms behind it.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb.
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Cologne, number A 4168
  3. ^ Oskar Jäger (arrangement): Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cologne. Annual report for the school year 1894–1895. Cologne 1895, p. 17.
  4. ^ Address book of Cologne and the surrounding area 1913. Greven's Adressbuch-Verlag, Cologne 1913, Part II, p. 515.

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 11.1 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 46.8"  E