Poensgen House (Schleiden-Gemünd)

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Poensgen House (2010)

The Poensgen House at Kölner Strasse 57-59 in Schleiden-Gemünd in the Euskirchen district is a listed building in Germany . It was built in the first half of the 19th century by a family of manufacturers from Gemünd. After the extensive destruction of the village of Gemünd in the Second World War , this factory owner's house is one of the few preserved historical buildings of particular importance in terms of art and local history.

To the building history

The plastered group of buildings in classical forms, located in the former district of Mauel, has a three-storey tower, recessed intermediate wings and a two-storey residential building under a crooked hip roof . The building complex was supplemented by a front garden, which was separated from the street by a cast iron fence. Inside was a gas lantern that was operated by a private gas preparation system that Albert Poensgen had installed to illuminate his house and the pipe factory opposite. The front yard, fence and lighting were removed when the road was widened.

In research it is controversial whether the building was rebuilt in 1847 or whether an older house was completely rebuilt in typical forms. According to the Gemünder historian Wilhelm Günther, the house was built in 1841 by the paper manufacturer Schoeller . According to the Poensgen biographer Lutz Hatzfeld, the Gemünder tube manufacturer Albert Poensgen (1818–1880) built the house in 1847. The type and style of the house is reminiscent of the municipal master builder Christian Wilhelm Ulrich , who built numerous buildings in Schleiden and Gemünd for the family Poensgen built.

literature

  • Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke, Barbara Fischer: Architectural and art monuments of the Euskirchen district, town of Schleiden. Berlin 1996.
  • Handbook of German Art Monuments , Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005.
  • Lutz Hatzfeld: The trading company Albert Poensgen Mauel-Düsseldorf. (= Writings on Rhenish-Westphalian Economic History, Volume 1.) Cologne 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Günther: Gemünd in the Eifel. (= Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 7.) 1966, p. 10.
  2. ^ Lutz Hatzfeld: The trading company Albert Poensgen Mauel-Düsseldorf. Cologne 1964, p. 125.
  3. ↑ Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke, Barbara Fischer: Architectural and art monuments of the district of Euskirchen. City of Schleiden. Berlin 1996, p. 131.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 10 ″  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 2 ″  E