Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection

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The Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection e. V. ( RVDL ) is a civil preservation and landscape protection organization and is committed to protecting architectural and landscape monuments from decay and destruction and to promoting awareness of significant and inconspicuous evidence of regional cultural history .

history

The founding meeting took place on October 20, 1906 in the Isabellensaal des Gürzenichs in Cologne . At that time the association was still called the Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz . The initiative to found the association came from Koblenz , among others from Provincial Conservator Paul Clemen , District President Joseph Anton Friedrich August Freiherr von Hövel and Senior President Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser . From 1907 the first office of the association was located in the newly built building of the (district) government of Koblenz on the banks of the Rhine. In 1951 the association moved its headquarters to Düsseldorf and Neuss . The head office of the association has been in Cologne-Deutz at the Rhineland Regional Council since 1964 . Spatially, the area of ​​activity of the association extends to the area of ​​the former Prussian Rhine Province : a large part of Rhineland-Palatinate , most of the Saarland and western North Rhine-Westphalia (Rhineland Regional Association). Rheinhessen and the Rheingau are also part of the association's area of ​​activity today.

The association has its main goals of monument preservation and landscape protection in its name. He is committed to the preservation of the cultural heritage. This includes architectural monuments as well as evidence of history and the cultural landscape, the landscape designed by humans. In order to preserve this, the association seeks contact with the decision-makers at all levels, is in contact with the preservation of monuments in the municipalities, districts and states and also carries its commitment to the outside world.

The association developed a special bond with the Middle Rhine early on . A few years after its foundation, he was actively committed to the architectural monuments in Bacharach , especially the threatened city wall. He also acquired Stahleck Castle via Bacharach in 1909 to save the ruin. Its partial reconstruction according to plans by the architect Ernst Stahl 1925–1927 followed the premise of the reconstruction , which has since largely given way to the preservation of the existing building, but today the castle is also an important testimony to the historical castle restoration. Thanks to its use as a youth hostel, it could be preserved. The association has also owned the nearby Stahlberg Castle ruins since 1912 and the Virneburg in the Eifel since 1914 .

The association was with the preparations, the Upper Middle Rhine Valley on UNESCO - World Heritage to explain. In 1997 he organized a Rhine Valley Conference in Mainz, from which the first documentation of the world cultural heritage and the Rhine Valley Charter emerged . The Rheinische Verein therefore closely follows the handling of the Middle Rhine Valley and the development of this world cultural heritage. He successfully fought against the project of creating a holiday park on the heights above Oberwesel , which would have had a lasting impact on the Rhine landscape. The Rheinische Verein questioned the plans to build a bridge over the Rhine near St. Goar , not least with its counter-opinion, because this bridge would also have a lasting impact on the landscape without having any major transport policy benefit.

Chairperson

Board of Directors (December 2018)

  • Chairman: Christoph Zöpel, Bochum
  • deputy Chairman: Matthias Müller, Mainz
  • deputy Chair: Susanne Bonenkamp, ​​Bergisch Gladbach
  • Managing director: Martin Bredenbeck , Koblenz
  • Treasurer: Rudolf Conrads, Cologne
  • Board members: Milena Karabaic, Cologne; Mark vom Hofe, Bergisch Gladbach; Ulrich Stevens, Brühl
  • Honorary Chairman: Norbert Heinen, Montabaur

Activities and publications

In order to promote awareness of the value of cultural monuments, the association is also active as a journalist. The booklet series Rheinische Kunststätten and Rheinische Landscapes present individual monuments, places and landscapes. The journal Rheinische Heimatpflege offers articles on Rhenish topics and current reports from the field of monument preservation four times a year. In addition, independent publications appear every year.

The annual meeting of the association takes place in a different location every year. Lectures, tours and excursions open up topics relating to the preservation of historical monuments as well as the conference location and its surroundings. In the anniversary year 2006, the association returned to the place of its founding, Cologne, with the annual general meeting.

Regional and local associations

Such a large area with currently approx. 4,000 members can only be managed locally to a limited extent. That is why the association is divided into 15 regional associations. The regional associations support the central goals of the association and stand up for endangered monuments in the region.

Regional association Rhine-Mosel-Lahn

So z. B. 1973 in Koblenz the local association Koblenz / Neuwied, which has been called the Regional Association Rhine-Mosel-Lahn since 1999 , which better reflects the area of ​​activity. This is based on the three rivers Rhine, Mosel and Lahn and extends from Treis-Karden on the Mosel to Diez on the Lahn and on the Rhine from Oberwesel to Rheinbrohl, and it extends far into the Eifel, Westerwald, Taunus and Hunsrück. The focus is on Koblenz and Mayen, which is where the majority of the current board members come from. About 500 members of the Rheinischer Verein belong to the regional association.

The regional association Rhein-Mosel-Lahn offers its members a rich program that makes the monuments of the region accessible. Guests are always welcome. Every year there are around ten guided tours and lectures in the annual program, which are sometimes offered together with other associations, such as the Association for History and Art, the German Castle Association and the Koblenz Educational Association. Just a few of the topics of the recent past are to be mentioned: The architecture of the 1950s in Koblenz; the mill valley; the Fort Asterstein and the German Kaiser ; the Liebfrauenkirche and the rectory of Liebfrauen; the Enspel fossil deposit in the Westerwald; Balduin's castles on the Hunsrück; the Katzenberg slate mine in Mayen ; the state main archive with its historical holdings; the Koblenz main cemetery ; Lorch with the Gothic parish church and the underground main equipment depot of the Bundeswehr; the mouth of the Ahr at Sinzig as a biotope; Koblenz during the war and in the post-war period with a visit to the Nagelsgasse air raid shelter; the botany at Rheinfels Castle with its historical useful and ornamental plants; Hikes around the Loreley and to the V2 launch sites near Hillscheid; the town fortifications of Oberwesel ; the Besselich monastery near Urbar.

The Year of Rhine Romanticism 2002, the Regional Association held in the castle Sayn the meeting aspects of the Romantic Rhine , in 2003, the year of the 30th anniversary of the regional association, the meeting in dealing Schloss Engers with the secularization of monasteries and convents, and the rest of spiritual possession and its Follow 200 years earlier.

Outlines

Regional associations are active in the following locations:

  • Aachen
  • Bonn / Rhine-Sieg / Ahr
  • Cochem cell
  • Düsseldorf / Mettmann / Neuss
  • Eifel (Daun)
  • Euskirchen
  • Cologne
  • Mainz
  • Lower Rhine (Xanten)
  • Rhein-Erft (Bergheim)
  • Rhine / Mosel / Lahn (Koblenz)
  • Ruhr-West
  • Saar
  • trier
  • Wuppertal / Solingen / Remscheid

Working groups

The following working groups exist:

  • Castles
  • Historical courtyards
  • Landscape and nature protection
  • Post-war architecture in the Rhineland
  • public relation
  • Law
  • Day seminars on site

literature

  • Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection e. V. (Ed.): Preserving and shaping. 75 years of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection. Verlag Gesellschaft für Buchdruckerei AG, Neuss 1981, ISBN 3-88094-373-7 .
  • Karl Peter Wiemer: An association through the ages. The Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Heritage Protection from 1906 to 1970 (= contributions to the preservation of heritage in the Rhineland. Volume 5.) Publishing house of the Rhenish Association for the preservation of monuments and landscape protection, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88094-883-6 .
  • Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection e. V. (Ed.): Committed to inheritance. 100 years of cultural landscape maintenance in the Rhineland. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Rheinischer Verein . Publishing house of the Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-86526-009-8 .
  • Manfred Böckling: 100 years in the service of monuments and the cultural landscape. The Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection. In: Castles and Palaces . Journal for Castle Research and Monument Preservation. Volume 47, No. 2, 2006, ISSN  0007-6201 , pp. 114–115, doi: 10.11588 / bus.2006.2.49202 .

Web links

Commons : Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz  - Collection of pictures