Turmhof (Plittersdorf)
The Turmhof is a villa in Plittersdorf , a district of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , which goes back to an electoral knight's seat in Cologne and was rebuilt around 1840. It is located on Turmstrasse (house numbers 29–31) in the middle of an extensive park . The villa stands as a monument under monument protection and was 1952 to 2001 the seat of the Apostolic Nunciature , the diplomatic mission of the Holy See in the Federal Republic of Germany .
history
The tower courtyard can be documented for the first time in 1569, when a picture of the courtyard with the two corner turrets that gave it its name appeared. By the end of the 16th century at the latest, it was owned by the Junker von Metternich. At that time he was the Kommende Muffendorf taxable, but half of it was tax-exempt. The estate passed into the possession of the Junkers Stambst until 1652 ; in 1670 it comprised 56 acres of arable land and two acres of vineyards . In 1690 the tower courtyard is mentioned as a knight's seat of the Electorate of Cologne. Shortly afterwards the Chancellor of Cologne and Minister of State Karg von Bebenburg acquired the property. After his goods were confiscated, his sister took over the tower courtyard, and through marriage it fell to Johann Friedrich Deckler ( called Freiherr von Cler from 1732 ). In the course of the 18th century a new stone building was built on the foundations of the old one, whereby the two towers were removed.
With the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops in 1794, the tower courtyard lost its status as an electoral seat in Cologne. He was then sold by the de Cleer family to the future justice of the peace, Meter. The tower courtyard was auctioned off from 1838 under the owner Bruckner, who succeeded him . The first auction could not be held because the tower courtyard burned down to the walls in the night of February 8th to 9th, 1838. After the reconstruction, a new auction was initiated in 1840, but it was unsuccessful. In 1842 the Turmhof was finally sold and was later used by the Farina family as a summer residence . In 1885, the then owner had citizen a porch attach and cellars the kitchen and locker tract, 1899, the rear facade was rebuilt to create additional spaces under the landlord-modern, while the central projection as a dining room deepened ( design : Gottfried Wehling ).
In 1919 the building was extended to the rear with a single-storey extension and the street front was remodeled according to plans by the Cologne architect Theodor Merrill , while the previous porches were torn down . A building description from 1926 shows that the property was equipped with luxury (including floor coverings , ceilings and walls) and modern (air and hot water heating , electricity). It also had an outside bowling alley . In 1926, the Godesberg architect Willy Maß acquired land belonging to the Turmhof outside the enclosed park for the construction of a settlement , and in 1928 the Turmhof itself. After yet another change of ownership in a villa in 1935 was Reich leaders School of BDM been established. At that time, the property had a plot of 16,024 m² , which also included a farm building , a wine house, a palm house and a gazebo based on an osteria .
After the Second World War , the building became the property of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1951 the Holy See , subject of the Pope's international law , acquired the tower courtyard and set up its Apostolic Nunciature in the Federal Republic of Germany here. The legal seat of the nunciature was moved from Eichstätt to Bad Godesberg on March 12, 1951 . The nunciature had an extension built on the north side of the villa. The apostolic nuncio usually took on the role of doyen within the diplomatic corps in Bonn. In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the Apostolic Nunciature moved to Berlin in 2001 , the move began with the dismantling of the coat of arms of the Holy See on March 29 and was completed by the inauguration of the new seat in Berlin on June 29 (→ Apostolic Nunciature in Berlin ). The now vacant tower courtyard with a usable area of 2,300 m² and a land area of 24,000 m² was privately owned in 2004 and was then placed under monument protection. The villa is one of the few preserved in Bonn from the first half of the 19th century.
architecture
The Villa has two floors on the low base erected includes thirteen window axes , and is toward the top of a slate-covered gabled roof completed, the shape of an equilateral triangle is formed. Stylistically, it can be attributed to Classicism and is characterized by a width and shallow depth, which is atypical for the construction period, which can be traced back to the previous building.
The street front is divided into five compartments by minimal protrusions. The three central axes form a central projection , which is emphasized by a portico with a balcony above and by an additional storey with a triangular gable , adorned by a semicircular window. The portico includes four Doric columns made of natural stone with entasis , which stand without bases on a terrace four steps high, and probably goes back to the renovation of 1919 when it replaced a smaller porch. At the rear, the central projecting formed in 1899 as a “garden portal” protrudes about 6 m into the depth of an independent wing , which since the expansion in 1919 has been joined on both sides by a ground floor with baluster roof terraces . The tympanum of the triangular pediment is equipped with a Venetian window .
While the southern gable front - with two round windows per storey in the gable field and characterized by a framed triangular gable given by the shape of the roof - is visible, the northern front is largely covered by the office extension created for the Apostolic Nunciature. The horizontal axis of the villa is emphasized by a cornice between the floors and a clearly protruding eaves .
“It turns out that the villa, which is more than two hundred years old in origin, is an individualist despite some similarities with some earlier villas. What they had in common was undoubtedly the charisma of reserved refinement and calm, which no longer existed today. "
literature
- Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 2, Catalog (1), pp. 49–59. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994) [building history and building owners]
- Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, pp. 70–72, 84–85, 137 f. . (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994) [description of architecture, art-historical classification, description of the floor plan]
- Alfred Wiedemann : History of Godesberg and its surroundings , second increased edition, Verlag des Amtes Godesberg, Bad Godesberg 1930, pp. 229–232.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 55, number A 3842
- ^ Horst Heidermann : 100 years of the German Werkbund: Godesberg traces . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Issue 44/2006, pp. 77–119 (here: p. 104).
- ↑ Herbert Alsheimer: The Vatican in Kronberg: a unique specimen in German post-war history , Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 2003, ISBN 978-3782905398 , p. 40.
- ^ Farewell to Bonn , Apostolic Nunciature in the Federal Republic of Germany
- ↑ Not at any price. Problems with the marketing of former embassies , Haus & Grund aktuell, Volume 8, No. 11, November 2002, p. 8.
- ^ Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV (Ed.); Bärbel, Richard and Kai Grebert: Walk through Plittersdorf , Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2013, p. 24.
- ↑ Good business with Bonn embassies , Die Welt , June 10, 2001
- ^ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn , Volume 1, p. 72.
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 0.3 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 51 ″ E