Annaberg Castle (Friesdorf)

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Front facade of the castle in 2013

As Castle Annaberg (also: House Annaberg or Good Annaberg ), a castle-like mansion in the Anna Berger Straße 400 in Bonn district Friesdorf referred. The building is located in the west of the village in a piece of forest that merges into the Kottenforst . Today it is used as a meeting place and is a listed building .

history

Alum-containing brown coal and clay have been mined in the area by the Marienforst monastery since the 18th century - as on the Pützberg (old name of the Annabergs), which was sold in 1807 and on which, from 1808, the Friesdorf brown coal, alum ore and vitriol ore mine was active. After several changes of ownership, the pits were abandoned in 1845 and the landscape was renatured and reforested by Franz Moll. The Annaberg experimental estate was built on the mining site above the village at the time in the second half of the 19th century after the Prussian government had acquired the land in 1860. The experimental farm belonged to the Agricultural Academy Poppelsdorf . The estate included an agriculture school and a tree nursery, which was opened in 1865 after the Cologne central tree nursery was closed. The academy ended its activities on the estate as early as 1875.

As a result, the Hamacher family owned the property. Later, the wealthy sugar manufacturer ( Pfeifer & Langen ) and merchant Eugen Pfeifer (1848–1915), son of Emil Pfeifer , bought the estate. In 1897 he had a summer residence, called " Tusculum " in the family , built. For this purpose, a presumably existing building was expanded. The manor house was given a historicist facade with columns, baroque balconies, turrets and bay windows. The fireplace room forms the center. The castle had a park, which is now partially overgrown, with exotic trees from the 19th century - probably laid out by the tree nursery that operated until 1875. At that time, one had a clear view of the Rhine and the Siebengebirge from the property . Pfeifer received the Prussian nobility (including the Crown Prince) and Rhenish industrialists on Annaberg.

After Pfeifer's death in August 1915, his wife Paula Maria Pfeifer (1855–1949) lived on the estate for two years. In August 1917 it was sold to the Reich Count Wilhelm von Westerholt. During World War II , Annaberg was hit by an incendiary bomb that destroyed large parts of the building. The owner could only finance a temporary reconstruction. Thanks to the mediation of a German-Baltic baron and a loan, Jazeps Urdze acquired the building for what is now the Baltic Christian Federation in 1952. The Latvian Protestant pastor founded the Bund (then still the Baltic Christian Student Union ) in 1947. The castle was repaired under him. When he died in 1985, his son Andrejs took over the management of the club and castle. Today it serves as a guest house, student residence and conference center.

The castle was and is the venue for important conferences and cultural events. Meeting of the Klingende Brücke and the Annaberg Forest Christmas took place here.

See also

Web links

Commons : Gut Annaberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Website of the Baltic Christian Association for the building
  • Entry by Dennis Beutelt (Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn, 2013) on Annaberg House in Friesdorf (Annaberg Castle, now a student residence and conference center) in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 7, number A 3967
  2. ↑ Alleen in NRW: Green Belt on the wayside , website of the NRW Foundation
  3. ^ Friesdorf and Annaberg, in: EA Wuerst, Bonn and his surroundings. A manual for foreigners and locals , A. Henry, Bonn 1869, p. 116
  4. ↑ a b Friesdorf structured by streets: Annaberger Straße (between Godesberger Allee and Rheinhöhenweg) , website of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV
  5. ↑ a b Udo Bongartz, Annaberg House in Bonn: From pleasure palace to Baltic meeting place , January 23, 2011, Latvian press review
  6. ↑ Thomas Becker, Bonna Perl am green Rheine: Studying in Bonn from 1818 to the present , Volume 5 of: Bonner Schriften zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte , ISBN 978-3-84710-1-314 , V&R unipress GmbH, 2013, p. 136
  7. ↑ Gert Engel and Sonja Ohlenschläger, 50 Years of the Klingende Brücke , in: Ad Marginem, Marginal Notes on Musical Folklore , 71/1998, University of Cologne, 1998
  8. ↑ Axel Vogel, Forest Christmas in Friesdorf More than 100 participants went to the Kottenforst , December 26, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 27.6 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 49.8 ″  E