Poppelsdorf Castle

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Poppelsdorfer Schloss, avenue side
Poppelsdorf Castle as seen from the entrance of the Botanical Garden
Poppelsdorf Castle, aerial view from the north
View of the castle over Poppelsdorfer Allee
The previous building, Poppelsdorfer Burg, was taken in 1583 (etching: Frans Hogenberg )
Illustration by Johann Andreas Ziegler , 1792
The Poppelsdorf Castle with the moat viewed from the Botanical Garden.

The Poppelsdorf Palace is a baroque palace in Bonn district Poppelsdorf .

Castle construction

Poppelsdorf Castle is the successor to a Gothic moated castle that was destroyed in the Truchsessian War in 1583 and was planned and built from 1715 (the foundation stone was laid on August 21) to 1740. The architect was the French Robert de Cotte . The builders were the Cologne Elector Joseph Clemens and his nephew and successor Clemens August , who had it expanded according to plans by Balthasar Neumann . It was also named Lustschloss Clemensruhe after its builders .

Surroundings of the castle

In the direction of the Rhine , Poppelsdorfer Allee is laid out as a connection and line of sight to the Electoral Palace , today's main building of the University of Bonn . Originally a canal was supposed to run there that was not realized due to lack of water. As an extension of the line of sight in the opposite direction, the baroque church is located on the Kreuzberg . Poppelsdorf Palace is situated, along with the Poppelsdorf Allee, the Botanical Garden and a guardhouse as a monument under monument protection .

The castle in the Prussian era

Under the rule of the Prussians in 1818 the castle and the adjacent park became the property of the university. In the same year, the park was transformed into the Bonn Botanical Garden , which today shows around 8,000 different plants on 6.5 hectares with eleven greenhouses. In 1863 the famous chemist AW Hofmann received a call to Bonn and the Poppelsdorf Palace was converted into a chemical institute according to his plans. Ultimately, Hofmann turned down the call to the University of Bonn and instead accepted the call to the immensely rebuilt Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in 1864 .

The greenhouses of the Botanical Garden were badly destroyed in the winter of 1944/45, around two thirds of the palace fell victim to the great bombing raid on Bonn in February 1945. The entire western part from the palace chapel to the so-called Grottensaal from 1756, which had been the exhibition room of the Mineralogical Museum in the north-west wing for almost a hundred years , was destroyed down to the foundation walls. Only the north tower remained undamaged, where Gottfried and Johanna Kinkel lived and founded the cockchafer association in 1840 . The reconstruction of the arcade round courtyard began in late summer 1949 under the direction of the chief building officer Bernhard Gelderblom.

Todays use

Today, in addition to the reconstructed Mineralogical Museum of the University of Bonn, the castle houses various natural science facilities such as parts of the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology , the Institute for Zoology and the Institute for Molecular Physiology and Developmental Biology . Parts of LIMES (Life and Medical Sciences Bonn) were temporarily housed there , but they moved into this after the completion of their own building in 2010. Every Saturday during the summer season, the Poppelsdorf Palace Concerts take place in the inner courtyard and are performed by the Bonn Classical Philharmonic under the direction of Heribert Beissel .

Redevelopment

Roof protection Poppelsdorf Castle

In 2014 it was found that the slate cover was dilapidated and some slabs of slate had already come loose. To prevent passers-by from being endangered by falling panels, large parts of the roof were secured with nets and textiles. The formwork was also attacked by the dilapidated covering. In June 2017, the estimated first two and a half year renovation of the roof, with one of the basis of a legal dispute began building and real estate NRW in the award procedure was stopped excluded companies already in November 2017 again and resumed after the re-tender until February of 2019.

Refurbishment September 2018, aerial photo

Other castle buildings by Clemens August I.

In addition to the Poppelsdorf Palace (1715–1740), Elector Clemens August I left the Schloss Herzogsfreude as a hunting lodge in today's Bonn district of Röttgen (1753–1755) and the Augustusburg and Falkenlust palaces in Brühl (1723–1746). as hunting and summer castles, the Clemenswerth Castle in Sögel in the Emsland (1737–1747) and the only partially realized Liebenburg Castle near Goslar (1754–1760). In addition, he had the master builder Michel Leveilly from Bonn, according to plans by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, expand the Electoral Palace to include the Koblenz Gate in the period 1751–1757 .

literature

  • Wend Graf Kalnein : The electoral castle Clemensruhe in Poppelsdorf. A contribution to Franco-German relations in the 18th century. (= Bonn Contributions to Art History , Volume 4.) Düsseldorf 1956.
  • Georg Satzinger (Ed.): Clemensruhe Castle in Bonn-Poppelsdorf. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2011.
  • Helga Stoverock: The Poppelsdorf Garden. Four hundred years of garden history. Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Bonn 2001. ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5-02427 ).
  • Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: "... like a monarch enthroned in the middle of his court". Castles on the Lower Middle Rhine. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2210-3 , pp. 120-123. (to the predecessor system Burg Poppelsdorf)
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 24.

Web links

Commons : Poppelsdorfer Schloss  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 45, number A 472
  2. "Alte Chemie" in Poppelsdorfer Schloß ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mystrobl.de
  3. Wolfgang Alt et al .: The archive pictures series. Bonn-Poppelsdorf , Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2005. ISBN 3-89702-880-8 (p. 113f Castle and Campus Poppelsdorf )
  4. Renovation costs estimated at several million euros , General-Anzeiger , December 10, 2014
  5. Roofing company stops renovation at Poppelsdorfer Schloss , General-Anzeiger , October 17, 2018
  6. Refurbishment of Poppelsdorf Palace continues , General-Anzeiger , June 1, 2019


Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 30.2 "  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 31.5"  E