Villa Braus

The restored front of the villa

The Villa Braus (also home Braus ) is under monument protection standing villa in Wuppertal district Ronsdorf on the park road that is used as a four-star hotel since 2012 found.

description

The villa, built in the Bergisch Baroque style , was built on an open area that was part of the Ronsdorf complex . The ground floor is held in yellow, the facade of the first floor as the roof verschiefert .

On the back of the villa was a terrace with a rose garden, and a winter garden was attached to the house. There is a car driveway to the front, a fountain in the middle of the lawn in front of it has been lost.

The building has two floors and eight axes. The middle risalit with the entrance portal is biaxial on the first floor. Above is a dwelling with a window. The entrance portal is richly decorated in the Bergisch Baroque style and provided with carved columns at the corners. Inside the building there is a representative staircase.

history

When the tape caster -Fabrikant Carl Braus from Ronsdorf Emmy Bredt married, he got from his father, a real estate dealer from Datteln, given this villa. The villa, built in 1907, included a property that was around 30 acres (around 6.4 hectares) in size.

The Braus family was expropriated and compensated in 1936, and the Diedenhofen barracks (later Generaloberst Hoepner barracks ) was built on the site around the villa from 1936 to 1938 . Previously, on October 17, 1936, the city had signed a garrison contract with the Treasury of the Reich government, in which, among other things, the city undertook to acquire the necessary land for the Reich.

The villa was integrated into the grounds of the barracks and used as an officers' mess. After the Second World War, the site was mainly used by the British until the Bundeswehr took over the site in 1968. In 1994 the Diedenhofen barracks was renamed Generaloberst Hoepner barracks and was used by the Bundeswehr until 2003.

Villa Braus

On October 16, 2002, the villa, still part of the military barracks, was recognized as a monument and entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal. The entire building is protected together with the park-like open space and car driveway. After the final abandonment of the Wuppertal site in 2004, the site of the barracks was bought by a Dutch project development company that wants to build a so-called Engineering Park Wuppertal there in addition to residential developments.

The villa itself, with a total area of 1200 m², was converted into a four-star hotel by May 2012 and has since offered 13 rooms and suites under the name Hotel Park Villa . A further extension with 30 rooms was also implemented on the approximately 5000 m² site. This modern new building was based on the color of the villa and is also kept in white, yellow and light gray.