Uhlhof
The Uhlhof is a property in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies on the banks of the Rhine in the district Lohfeld and includes the Villa Mauser of 1904-06, which including about 3000 m² park and boundary wall as a monument under monument stands, as well as new adjacent buildings from the 1960s to the here resident until 2017 Academy International cooperation (AIZ). The Uhlhof was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef in December 1999.
location
The Uhlhof is located on Lohfelder Straße (house number 128) on the southern edge of the Lohfeld district, right on the border with the municipality of Rheinbreitbach (Rhineland-Palatinate) and on the towpath above the banks of the Rhine.
history
House Elise / Villa Mauser
The owner of the villa on the property later called “Uhlhof” was the pensioner Hermann Reimers , who lived in New York and London . In 1903 Reimers had started to acquire numerous plots of land in the Lohfeld area in order to build a second home there. In the spring of 1904 he submitted building applications for the construction of a villa, a greenhouse and a stable building including a coach house. The latter could already be removed for use on July 4, 1904 . One day later, the building permit for the villa followed, which was completed by the final acceptance on October 21, 1906 and was given the name "Haus Elise". After Reimers died, presumably in London in 1917, the villa stood empty, but was initially maintained.
As a result of the entry of the USA into the First World War (April 1917), the property fell under the compulsory administration of hostile assets until 1918 due to the foreign owner , which was initially assumed by the mayor of Honnef, Brenig. After its completion, the ownership of the land remained - they were at the latest in 1925 with a mortgage burden - unexplained until 1927 by the heirs of H. Reimers Wöhrmann from Wesel could be resold. In 1930 the property passed into the possession of the manufacturer Ernst Gustav Hones, after his death it was acquired in 1941 by the industrialist Karl Wilhelm Mauser and was given the name "Uhlhof" or "Villa Mauser".
After the end of the Second World War , British occupation troops took over the Uhlhof in 1945 and set up a headquarters for the Royal Engineers - responsible for clearing up ship and bridge debris in the Rhine. The Mauser family could continue to live on the Uhlhof, but had to move to the coachman's apartment and then to the horse stable. 1949/50 of Uhlhof for was Allied High Commission (AHC) confiscated after the British General Gordon Macready (member of the Economic and Foreign Trade Committee of the AHK) had chosen him as his residence. In the course of the confiscation, a lengthy legal dispute arose, but this did not prevent Macready's collection. The Uhlhof was temporarily still managed as a fruit farm and remained in the possession of the Mauser family after the confiscation ended.
Central office for foreign customers (most recently: AIZ)
In 1965, the “Central Office for Foreign Customers of the German Foundation for International Development (DSE)” was founded in Uhlhof, which became the property of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1966, as a forerunner of the later AIZ. The center of the complex was the Villa Mauser, whose former outbuildings (coach house and coach house) had to give way to the construction of new buildings for conference and office purposes. In 2002 the DSE merged with the Carl Duisberg Society for International Further Education and Development gGmbH (InWEnt). Now the Uhlhof operated as a preparation center for development cooperation (V-EZ) . At the beginning of 2003, the “Preparation” department of the German Development Service , which had moved from Berlin to Bonn , merged with InWEnt and therefore moved to Bad Honnef. Since the capacities were no longer sufficient, several provisional office containers were set up by 2004, which were dismantled again in 2008; Instead, an empty Birkenstock building was rented. In 2011, V-EZ was renamed the Academy for International Cooperation with the merger of InWEnt and the German Development Service to form GIZ .
Since the end of the 1990s there have been plans to relocate the academy to the federally owned building of the former training and further education facility of the Foreign Office in the Bonn district of Ippendorf , which has been vacant since 2006 , because the state of North Rhine-Westphalia no longer allows the preparation facility to use it free of charge wanted and the federal government was the user of the property via the then InWent. From June 2006 the plans had become more concrete; the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development announced that it would be relocated by summer 2009. However, it was averted for the time being in December 2006. The federal government was now planning to build new buildings on the Uhlhof site to replace the provisional office containers and to renovate parts of the old stock. A new, two- to four-storey round building was to be built from 2008, the completion of which was planned for May 2010. The listed villa should be renovated by 2011. A new apartment house was also being planned, which should also be occupied by 2011. The plans were not realized because from 2010 a move to a property in Bonn was considered again.
In May 2013, it became known that GIZ intended to give up the Uhlhof as the headquarters of the Academy for International Cooperation, ostensibly because the location could not be expanded, in particular due to flood protection regulations . The city of Bad Honnef and the Unkel community denied that expansion was not possible. On June 21, 2013, the GIZ Supervisory Board decided to move the AIZ to the previous Andreas Hermes Academy in the Röttgen district of Bonn by 2016 at the earliest . The move finally took place in December 2017. The now vacant Uhlhof is to be sold by the construction and real estate company NRW .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef, number A 268
- ^ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-5067-0139-8 , p. 63.
- ↑ Roswitha Oschmann: From Wingert to the school desk for development workers , General-Anzeiger , June 7, 2006
- ↑ Preparations for the new building of the Honnefer Uhlhof begin , General-Anzeiger, March 7, 2008
- ↑ Construction plans in Honnefer Uhlhof are in danger of bursting , General-Anzeiger, September 22, 2010
- ↑ The end of the AIZ is sealed , General-Anzeiger, May 3, 2013
- ^ Uhlhof wants to give up society , General-Anzeiger, May 15, 2013
- ↑ Uhlhof: Change of location of the AIZ - letter from Mayor Wally Feiden to GIZ , press release from the city of Bad Honnef, 14 May 2013 ( memento from 30 June 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ GIZ Supervisory Board acts "under wrong conditions" , General-Anzeiger, 14 June 2013
- ↑ Academy for International Cooperation gets new location in Bonn-Röttgen , press release, giz
- ^ The Uhlhof is threatened with vacancy , General-Anzeiger , May 12, 2015
- ↑ Land is looking for buyers for the Uhlhof in Bad Honnef , General-Anzeiger , January 17, 2018
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '32.7 " N , 7 ° 12' 55.7" E