Birlinghoven Castle

Birlinghoven Castle (2014)

Birlinghoven Castle (2013)

The Birlinghoven Castle is a castle-like villa in Sankt Augustin , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , which was built from 1901 to 1903.

location

Birlinghoven is surrounded by the Birlinghovener forest on a ridge of Pleiser hills above and one kilometer west of the St. Augustine hamlet Birlinghoven , whose district it belongs, and about 500 meters north of Bonner hamlet Hoholz (district Beuel ) at 147 m above sea level. NHN .

history

Birlinghoven Castle was built above the old Birlinghoven Castle based on a design by the architect Edwin Crones (1874–1917) for the Rautenstrauch family. In 1900 the builder of the palace, Theodor Damian Rautenstrauch (1873–1907), son of the museum donor Adele Rautenstrauch , acquired the site with a one- hectare forest area. First he set out to create a landscape park including the forest area and the Pleisbach , with the design of which he commissioned the garden architect Rudolf Rausch (1876–1947). This was largely completed by 1904, and the work was completed by 1910. Parts of the park were built on later.

In 1916 the Cologne banker Louis Hagen bought the castle; after his death in 1932 it passed to his two daughters Elisabeth von Wrede and Maria von Dorbenck, who later became Countess Strachwitz. Their daughter Lisa von Dobenck married the German tennis champion Gottfried von Cramm in 1930 ; shortly before the wedding, the tennis courts were laid out below the castle.

During and after the Second World War , the castle was confiscated by the military - in August 1943 as an alternative accommodation to accommodate the army release point 5 of the military district VI Münster i, previously located in Cologne-Nippes . Westf. -, for the British occupying forces it was converted into a recreation center for families of British staff officers . After 1949, the British High Commissioner Robertson preferred Birlinghoven Castle as his personal residence, but after a corresponding visit the decision was made to stay in Röttgen Castle due to the expected renovation costs . In 1959, Deutsche Shell AG set up its institute for basic research on the site . The palace has been owned by the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 and houses research institutes; Initially, the GMD Research Center for Information Technology was located there, which was merged into the Fraunhofer Society in 2001.

Aerial photograph (2016)

Institutes

The institute center Schloss Birlinghoven includes the following institutes:

There are also branch offices of the institutes on campus:

Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Darmstadt , area “Application and Process Security ”.

literature

Rita Hombach: Landscape gardens in the Rhineland. The recording of the historical inventory and studies of the garden culture of the "long" 19th century. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland . Volume 37 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-88462-298-8 , p. 194-198, 222/223 .
Jutta Curtius: 1000 roses for Birlinghoven Castle: Fritz Encke's plans for the castle park . In: LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland (ed.): Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland . Issue 1/2014. Klartext Verlag, 2014, ISSN 0177-2619 , p. 6-13 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Birlinghoven - collection of images

Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Birlinghoven in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Entry on Birlinghoven Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Comprehensive page on the Fraunhofer Institute Center Schloss Birlinghoven
Birlinghoven, historical
Fritz Encke's activity in Birlinghoven Castle - Article

Individual evidence

^ Entry by Jens Friedhoff on Birlinghoven in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on December 8, 2018.
^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb (= city traces, monuments in Cologne . Volume 8 ). tape 2 . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , p. 812 (2 volumes).
↑ https://www.izb.fraunhofer.de/de/schloss-birlinghoven/baugeschichte.html
↑ August Tepper (Red.): Birlinghoven Castle . GMD Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin 1998, ISBN 3-88457-965-7 (64 pages).
^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 602 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
^ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , p. 60.

50.748944444444 7.2056694444444Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 56.2 " N , 7 ° 12 ′ 20.4" E

[1] Entry by Jens Friedhoff on Birlinghoven in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on December 8, 2018.

[2] Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb (= city traces, monuments in Cologne . Volume 8 ). tape 2 . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , p. 812 (2 volumes).

[3] ttps://www.izb.fraunhofer.de/de/schloss-birlinghoven/baugeschichte.html

[schloss-4] August Tepper (Red.): Birlinghoven Castle . GMD Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin 1998, ISBN 3-88457-965-7 (64 pages).

[Klein2008-5] Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 602 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).

[6] Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , p. 60.