Villa Bellevue (Trier)
The Villa Bellevue was a classicist building in Trier .
history
The Villa Bellevue stood above the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge near the baroque betting village house . After Bernhard Heinrich Wettendorf's death, the area named after him was auctioned off in 1822. As Wettendorf had designed the property in a park-like manner, it could be used as a restaurant. From 1824 the Wettendorfshäuschen housed a restaurant, and in the 1850s the then owner Jakob Kieffer had the villa, initially known as “Café Bellevue”, built. The Bellevue restaurant, which opened in 1858, was less successful than the Wettendorfshäuschen and was sold to Hermann Brefeld, a lawyer from Essen, in 1871. He converted the catering business into a private residence and introduced the name "Villa Bellevue". In 1884 the villa became the property of Bernhard Lieser, who was the landlord at the Schneidershof, for 22,000 marks. Lieser set up an inn in the building again and had a glass hall added shortly afterwards. In 1905 the Villa Bellevue was sold to the Trier banker Adrian Reverchon, who initially leased the villa to the restaurateur Block. In 1912, after completion of the Villa Reverchon built on the property, operations were finally stopped. In the following years the villa served as a residence for (house) employees of the Reverchon family.
In 1944 and 1945, according to reports from contemporary witnesses, the Villa Bellevue (which was confiscated by the Wehrmacht) was allegedly the Trier district court . After the end of the war, the Reverchon family divided the property into two pieces of land around the respective villas and sold them, so that since then the two villas have had different owners.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the empty house began to fall into disrepair: moisture penetrated and the wallpaper peeled off. Wall paintings from the 19th century came to light. The owner of the property, who wanted to develop the area around the villa as building land, had the paintings expanded, their whereabouts are unknown. At the same time, the stairs were torn down and the roof of the building was damaged. In order to prevent the outer walls from collapsing, the remains of the meanwhile irreparable inner walls and ceilings were removed after a long period of decay with the consent of the preservation authorities; The plans at that time provided for a faithful restoration of the facades and a modern interior design of the villa, but were not implemented.
Monument protection and decay
In 1981 the building was formally listed as a historical monument, in 1982 the Trierisch Association pointed out the need for action in the New Trierischer Jahrbuch , but the privately owned building, whose outer walls were still fully preserved, still fell into disrepair. The protection status was probably lifted in 2009.
In November 2012, 100 years after operations had ceased, the remains of the ruins were removed (largely unnoticed by the public).
literature
- Ahlhelm, Morgen, Simon, Tietzen: Do you remember? Trier restaurants yesterday and today. Volume V , Trier 2009, pp. 16/17.
Web links
- Entry on Former Villa Bellevue in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '55.2 " N , 6 ° 37' 44.9" E