Rondorfer Strasse 9
The building at Rondorfer Strasse 9 was a villa in the Marienburg district of Cologne in the Cologne-Marienburg villa colony , which was built in 1923/24 and demolished in 1977. Most recently it served as the residence of the Ambassador of India in the Federal Republic of Germany.
history
The villa was known as Hans Werner Schmidt, CEO and co-owner builder occurring eponymous company HW Schmidt GmbH, for a draft of the resident also in Malbork architect Theodor Merrill (1891-1978). Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann worked as a garden architect . Originally the property was intended for the construction of two villas. At the time, the building was widely received in specialist publications, including the Deutsche Bauhütte magazine .
After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the Republic of India set up the residence of its embassy, the residence of the ambassador , in the villa by 1952 at the latest . In 1969 India moved the residence to Bad Godesberg . In anticipation of the construction of a residential complex on Rondorfer Straße in 1970/71, the property was parceled out and reduced by half , with the loss of the garden area and the demolition of the garage and chauffeur house. The villa itself was demolished in 1977 for the purpose of building another residential complex.
architecture
The property was on a corner lot and, as a country house, consisted of several buildings grouped around a courtyard: a residential building, an attached angular farm wing and a free-standing garage and chauffeur's house, to which a stylized gate created a transition. Stylistically , the emphasis on the horizontal axis and the roof shape of the villa can be attributed to the traditionalist Stuttgart school with elements of regional, Rhenish architecture.
The central interior was the hallway , to which the dining room and - in an unusual location - the children's room were connected on both sides . The architect had also largely taken over the interior design and executed it in different styles. The entrance hall was equipped with a suggested wooden beam ceiling and a wooden staircase , its design could be described as Rhenish baroque . Expressionism , which was prevalent at the time of construction , was found in the master bedroom, except in the furniture, in a vault made as a Rabitz construction and in the bedroom in particular in decorative cupboards.
"[The villa] was probably (...) one of the architect's favorite creations, who was able to fully meet his ideas of a total work of art here."
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. 680–684.
Web links
- Picture book Cologne: Rondorfer Str. 9 (50968 Marienburg). View of the villa in 1950. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 24, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Finance (ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1078
- ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of June 1969, December 1969)
- ^ Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb .
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 42.8 " N , 6 ° 58 ′ 6.8" E