Villa Camphausen

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Villa Camphausen (2013)
Villa Camphausen seen from the Rhine side, aerial photo 2020

The Villa Camphausen is a villa in Mehlem , a district of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn , which dates back to the second half of the 19th century. It is located on the east side of Mainzer Straße (house number 233) with a park extending to the banks of the Rhine . The villa stands together with the park and a Prussian milestone as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa, the exact construction dates of which are unknown, goes back to a property that was built in the 1860s. It first appeared in the building files in December 1895 in connection with the construction of a garden pavilion inside the park. It was completed in June 1896. At that time, the villa was owned by Arthur Camphausen, deputy chairman of the Cologne Reinsurance Company and a member of the supervisory board of A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bankverein in Cologne . In 1900 he had the coach house enlarged , and a riding school was built in the same year . In 1903 a greenhouse was built . The middle wing of the villa was extended in 1907/08 with a bay window and triangular gable , as was the gardener's house (design: August Scheidgen ). Stylistically , it can be attributed to the late pictureque classicism .

In 1912 the park belonging to the villa covered an area of ​​seven hectares . A change of ownership took place until 1924, when A. Ringsdorff appears as the owner. This year there has been a slight expansion of the villa in the northwest according to plans by the Godesberg architect Willy Maß . At the time it served as a British boarding school . Between 1935 and 1938 the Villa Camphausen was a quarter of the SA-Hilfswerk Nord-West as the successor organization of the Austrian Legion , which was recruited from Austrian National Socialists who had fled to the German Reich. Several cooks were employed here to entertain members of the Legion in Bad Godesberg. In 1942 the property was made available to the Hitler Youth , who planned the (unauthorized) installation of a small- bore rifle shooting range there . After the Second World War it became the property of the family of the Bad Godesberg filmmaker Hans Fischerkoesen , to whom it served as a film studio from 1951 . At the beginning of 1985 the Republic of Korea (South Korea) acquired the property with a land area of ​​18,000 m² and established the residence of its ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany there. To this end, some renovation work was carried out in the course of 1985.

In 1999 the headquarters of the South Korean embassy moved with the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin . The head of the embassy branch that remained in Bonn then resided in the villa. After the sale in private ownership in 2003, the Villa Camphausen started operating a retirement home in 2004 . For this purpose, it was expanded to include two wings.

literature

  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 3, Catalog (2), pp. 78-83. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 138-139.

Web links

Commons : Villa Camphausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 39, number A 546
  2. ^ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. 1819–1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, p. 292.
  3. ↑ a b c Michael Wenzel: Small story (s) Bad Godesberger Messages , 2nd edition 2011, p. 70.
  4. ^ Karl Josef Schwalb: Austrian National Socialists in exile in Bad Godesberg (1934–38) . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 36/1998, p. 56/57.
  5. ^ Horst Heidermann : Godesberger Industrial History III . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 50/2012, Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2013, pp. 94–145 (here: pp. 135– 139).
  6. ^ A b Bonn: Seniors instead of Korean diplomats , IZ aktuell, October 18, 2004
  7. ^ South Korea bought Residenz , General-Anzeiger , city edition Bonn, February 19, 1985, p. 4
  8. ^ Kursana retirement home in Bonn

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 29.3 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 41.3"  E