Schaumburger Hof

View from the Rhine side

View from the north-east

The Schaumburger Hof is a restaurant in a half-timbered house from the 18th century in Plittersdorf , part of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn . It lies on the banks of the Rhine opposite the Siebengebirge . The Schaumburger Hof stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

On March 31, 1755, the winemaker and farmer Peter Joseph Rhein laid the foundation of Godesberg's oldest restaurant next to a towpath . Peter Joseph Rhein was followed by his son Peter Rhein the Younger with his wife, who ran the inn until 1815 and then ceded it to their daughter Agnes. Agnes married Henry Mundorf in 1820, who was renovating the inn. With the advent of steamships at the beginning of the 19th century, the need for towing was done away with , which robbed the inn, then called “Unter den Linden”, of its regular customers, the Halfen . With the romanticism of art and the beginning of the Biedermeier period , the family gained new customers from the rapidly growing University of Bonn, whose students and professors enjoyed the view of the Siebengebirge on the other side of the Rhine on the terrace of the inn. Mundorf wrote in a sales letter at the time:

"Let the audience know that in this house the strangers, who honor the same with their encouragement, expect a pleasant stay in view of the exceptionally beautiful location of the house as well as the comfort and cuteness of the lodging, which has been completely furnished with new furniture can."

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha met Victoria , Queen of England, "Unter den Linden" in 1839 , whom he married in 1840. Karl Simrock , Paul Heyse , Ferdinand Freiligrath , Emanuel Geibel , Ernst Moritz Arndt , Friedrich III. , Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , Adele Schopenhauer , Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen , Friedrich Nietzsche and Alexander von Humboldt also got down there, as a sign on the building announces. The literary group Maikäferbund also held their meetings here from 1842. The renaming to "Schaumburger Hof" took place after 1900 in honor of Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe , who often visited the inn during his service with the Bonn Hussar Regiment.

The house also plays a role in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. On September 5, 1948, the Parliamentary Council met in the Schaumburger Hof to debate the constitution of the Federal Republic. A group of FDP MPs held various meetings in the Schaumburger Hof. The group was called the " Schaumburger Kreis " after the location of the event . The State Secretary of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hermann Wandersleb, stayed 660 times in the Schaumburger Hof between 1948 and 1950 before, during and after his time as head of the Federal Capital Office .

literature

• Friedrich Georg Wendl: At the "Silver View of the Rhine and the Siebengebirge": 250 years of the "Schaumburger Hof" in Plittersdorf . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , ISSN  0436-1024 , Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg e. V. , issue 42/2004, pp. 21-27. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : Schaumburger Hof  - collection of pictures

• schaumburger-hof.de - website of the current operator

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 1872
2. ↑ Wolfgang Guting: Transformation of a boatman's bar. In: kultur-in-bonn.de. March 30, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2017 . 
3. ^ Carl A. Kellermann: Das Gretchen von Plittersdorf. The linden landlady's little daughter. Karl Rohm Verlag, Lorch 1934, pp. 46–51.
4. ↑ Helmut Vogt , Stadtarchiv der Stadt Bonn (ed.): "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 40-41.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 52.3 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 4.2"  E