Villa Bonn (Kronberg im Taunus)
The Villa Bonn is the town hall of Kronberg im Taunus .
Summer seat
Between 1901 and 1905 the Frankfurt banker Wilhelm Bonn (born March 16, 1843 in Frankfurt am Main, † October 21, 1910 in Kronberg im Taunus) had the Villa Bonn built. The Bonn family had had a summer residence on the site, which was expanded through acquisitions, since 1864. Baruch and Betty Bonn, Wilhelm Bonn's parents, were wealthy Jewish bankers and had acquired the property that year and had it converted into a prestigious summer residence. As a co-founder of the railway company, Baruch Bonn was involved in the railway connection to Kronberg . The Bonn couple were also socially committed, as sponsors of the Baruch and Betty Bonn'sche Foundation for the Cronberg community , the poor fund and the hospital association.
In the second generation, the house was initially used by Philipp Bonn and his sister Charlotte Wetzlar. After the death of Philipp Bonn, Wilhelm Bonn inherited the Kronberg estate.
The building was built by the architect Alfred Löwengrad from Hamburg in the style of the time with Art Nouveau elements. An English-style park was laid out around the house.
town hall
The Kronberg town hall has been located in various houses in the old town since the 15th century (dance hall, house "Drei Ritter"). After that, the business of the magistrate was carried out on the ground floor of the school building in Katharinenstrasse. Later the house at Frankfurter Strasse 2 (today's Berliner Platz, demolished in 1934) was used as the town hall. On January 21, 1922, the city acquired the Villa Bonn in Katharinenstrasse from Emma, Max and Richard Bonn, the children of Wilhelm Bonn, for 750,000 marks and converted it into a town hall. The former reception and banqueting hall of the villa became the meeting room of the city councilors, the former dining room the mayor's office. The former kitchen now serves as the mayor's anteroom. The farm buildings on the opposite side of Katharinenstrasse have since been subject to different uses (vocational school, prison, public bath and shower, residents' registration office, public order office, station of the German Red Cross).
The first city council meeting took place in the Villa Bonn on July 10, 1922.
Honorary citizenship and time of National Socialism
Wilhelm Bonn continued the social tradition of his parents and, together with his brothers Philipp and Leopold, established a foundation in 1890 , the “Baruch and Betty Bonn'sches supply house for the Cronberg community”, a residential facility for the elderly, the poor and those in need of care. Wilhelm and his brothers Philipp, Moritz and Leopold were made honorary citizens of Kronberg and today's Wilhelm-Bonn-Straße was named after him.
During the Nazi era , the supply house (today Wilhelm-Bonn-Str. 26) was used as the seat of the local NSDAP from 1938, the honors were revoked and Emma Bonn was taken to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and murdered there.
entrance
Information board
Villa Bonn
literature
- Harro Trenkler: The Bonns (1520-1920). From the far-reaching work of an influential Frankfurt Jewish family. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-7829-0477-3 .
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Remarks
- ↑ Considering the pre-inflationary period, a very affordable purchase price
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 42 " N , 8 ° 30 ′ 29.2" E