Villa Buth

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Villa Buth (2010)

The Villa Buth is a listed factory owner's villa in Kirchberg near Jülich , probably built in 1893 in the neo-renaissance style . Her address is Wymarstrasse No. 8. During the Nazi era , Jews were interned and detained in her before they were transported to Theresienstadt . Today the villa is empty, the future is unclear. A citizens' initiative calls for repairs.

history

The Villa Buth was probably built in 1893 by the paper manufacturer Carl Eichhorn, to whom it was dedicated to his daughter Clara Eichhorn, who moved into the property with her husband and namesake of the villa, Emil Buth. He was a Prussian cavalry officer before becoming a partner in the paper mill. After Clara Eichhorn's death, Emil Buth lived in the building alone, and soon afterwards on March 30, 1901 in Bonn, he married Theresa Osterhaus, the daughter of the German-American Peter Joseph Osterhaus , a former major general in the US Army. After Emil Buth's death in 1925, his widow probably lived there until 1935.

During the Nazi era, the villa was used as a so-called Jewish house in 1941/1942. Jews from the Jülich district were initially interned there. Later Jews from the districts of Düren and Erkelenz were added: for example from the "Jewish houses" barley mill in Düren and Spießhof in Hetzerath near Erkelenz . The Nazi regime had stripped them of their apartments and so they were held in the ghetto house until they were deported to a labor or extermination camp. The residents had severe restrictions on going out, the men probably had to work in the community of Walheim near Kornelimünster in road construction on today's B 258 . A labor camp for Jews existed in Walheim from March / April to November 1941. The inmates also had to do forced labor in Jülich, Alsdorf and on the Westwall . Some men were also transferred to the Rhenaniastrasse labor camp in Stolberg .

By March 24, 1941, when all Jews had to move in by decision of the district administrator at the latest, there were 96 people in the villa. 127 of the interned persons are known by name. Another 20 people are named in the literature, but they were not actually held there. On July 25, 1942, the last residents were deported eastwards.

Vacant Villa Buth (2018)

After the war, the villa was used to accommodate guest workers. The villa has been empty since they moved out.

architecture

The building is registered under No. 57 in the list of architectural monuments in Jülich . The back of the house faces the street, this side has a risalit that serves as an inner staircase. The front, however, faces away from the road. A wide flight of stairs leads to the first floor. The building has four floors, with two floors, the bottom and the top, being less developed. These were supposed to be used for household chores, while the other two floors served as living space. Opposite is a large garden, which is followed by a large park with an old tree population. The park has several terraces and is designed with some architectural elements; a greenhouse, a tower made of slag, a music temple, a fountain, a three-story grotto and a small cemetery with graves of the Eichhorn family. The park is bounded by the mill pond. The park is also a listed building. The villa and park are in a state of disrepair.

Work-up

In 2018, an upper school course at the Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium Würselen worked on the history in detail in order to make the history, which is still mostly unknown to the public, accessible and to draw attention to it. It was a project work within the school program of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . The students created a comprehensive documentation (315 pages), a 3D print model and a 41-minute documentary film.

Web links

Commons : Villa Buth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Timo Ohrndorf (Hrsg.), Iris Gedig (Hrsg.): Villa Buth- Intermediate Station for the Holocaust , Jülich History Association; Edition: 1 (2019), ISBN 978-3-930808-20-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Citizens' initiative criticizes plans for logistics center . In: Aachener Zeitung . ( aachener-zeitung.de [accessed on April 23, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Monuments of the City of Jülich, No. 57, No. 57a
  3. ^ Stadtarchivkoblenz.wordpress.com, Peter Joseph Osterhaus - a German-American life
  4. ↑ Yannick Longerich: Project at the HGG: contemporary witness who makes history tangible . In: Aachener Nachrichten . ( aachener-nachrichten.de [accessed on April 23, 2018]).
  5. ↑ http://www.wgdv.de/wege/walheim
  6. ↑ Villa Buth - intermediate station for the Holocaust, Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium Würselen 2018, p. 120
  7. ↑ Villa Buth - intermediate station for the Holocaust, Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium Würselen 2018, p. 127ff
  8. ↑ Gabriele Spelthahn: Disenfranchised, uprooted, murdered: Book of memories of the Jews of the Jülich country . Jülich History Association, Jülich 2006, ISBN 978-3-933969-58-3 .
  9. ↑ Villa Buth - intermediate station for the Holocaust, Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium Würselen 2018, p. 85 ff
  10. ↑ HGG homepage | Project course “Villa Buth”. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Yannick Longerich: Project at the HGG: contemporary witness who makes history tangible . In: Aachener Nachrichten . ( aachener-nachrichten.de [accessed on April 23, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Monument active: Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium, Würselen (in charge) . In: Denkmal-Aktiv: cultural heritage goes to school . ( denkmal-aktiv.de [accessed on April 23, 2018]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 2.8 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 1.2 ″  E