Sophienhof (Ittenbach)

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Sophienhof (2009)

The Sophienhof is a hotel building on Margarethenhöhe , a district of the city of Königswinter in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district that belongs to Ittenbach , built in the 1880s. It is considered a monument and important for the development of tourism in the Siebengebirge .

location

The Sophienhof is located at the southern end of the pass-like Margarethenhöhe ( 320  m above sea  level ) on the east side of Löwenburger Straße (house number 5), which leads as an asphalt road to the Löwenburger Hof .

history

The Sophienhof was originally built as a restaurant for the client Wilhelm Lange. The opening took place on February 13, 1889. The Sophienhof was the second excursion restaurant on the Margarethenhöhe, which at that time developed into a focus of tourism in the Siebengebirge. At first it housed leaders of the Archdiocese of Cologne . In 1909 the building was expanded, in the course of which an extension was built and the veranda was expanded. The hotel comprised about a dozen guest rooms on the upper and top floors. It was run by the family for several decades. After the hotel closed in the early 1970s, it began to deteriorate.

After the neighboring Margarethenhof became the seat of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in 1984 , it acquired the Sophienhof to accommodate conference guests. The building was gutted in 1989/90 . In the course of relocating the seat of government to Berlin , the Friedrich Naumann Foundation moved to Potsdam by the turn of the year 1999/2000 . The Sophienhof had previously been sold to a real estate company, which opened a hotel and restaurant there again in 1998 . After the company's insolvency in 2001, which had no effect on operations, the Sophienhof was sold again in 2005 and partially renovated. In 2011 a new restaurant was opened there.

architecture

The Sophienhof is a two-story, eaves-standing and elongated brick building . There is a glass veranda in front of the ground floor , which rests on a basement and accommodates the house entrance in the middle. The street front has corner projections , which, like the central window axis , are gabled , and segmental arched windows . At the rear of the street front there is a hollow block extension.

literature

Web links

Commons : Sophienhof (Ittenbach)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b American food for German wheat , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , 23 August 2002
  2. ↑ Sophienhof with a promenade on Margarethenhöhe , Ittenbach Virtual Local History Museum
  3. ↑ Sophienhof and Margaretenhof are sold , General-Anzeiger , December 21, 2000
  4. ↑ The administrator now looks after things are right , General-Anzeiger, April 27, 2005

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 2.6 ″  E