Villa Halstenbach
The Villa Halstenbach (street address: Am Diek 47 ) is a villa in the Wuppertal district of Oberbarmen . The historic building is located in the Wichlinghausen district and is considered the nucleus of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). As an architectural monument , it is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.
description
The two-storey villa was built in the second half of the 19th century and is a slated half-timbered construction . The building has a gable roof with a covering gable and decorative paneling. The roof is wide, this is made possible by the construction with eaves-side headbands and floating gables , partly as a truss . The entrance is on the street side in the central projections , the front side of which is lavishly designed.
A side wing was added on the northern side in 1896. This wing has a hall floor with a basement and a loft. The facade of the extension is plastered and the window and door frames are made of natural stone . The decorated gable of the central risalite and a bay window made of natural stone were also executed . The bay window on the eastern side with a trapezoidal floor plan is located on the gable side of the hall and in the middle under the cantilevered half-timbered gable of the gable roof. With columns and arches, the bay window is based on the Romanesque style . The central projection with a gable is based on the Renaissance style.
history
In 1796 the Lekebusch family moved into the house in Wichlinghausen. It is located in the vicinity of a number of houses that the Mittelsten Scheid family had built around 1800 on the still undeveloped hills of Wichlinghausen. According to another source, the house was built by Peter Mittelsten Scheid in 1806/07 , a year that is also named by another source.
In 1896 the house was expanded to the north. Today's namesake of the villa, Willy Halstenbach (1886–1953), acquired the building in 1922. From 1923 he lived in the villa with his wife Marie and their six children. The owner of the rubber band and machine factory Halstenbach had wide interests. In addition to painting , art history and literature , he was mainly interested in theological things. He worked as presbyter of the Evangelical Reformed community of Barmen-Gemarke. So he was a supporter of the professing church at the time of National Socialism and offered his house as a meeting. In the house, for example, men like Karl Barth , Johannes Schlingensiepen , Martin Niemöller and Hanns Lilje met and held secret meetings and forbidden theological exams that remained undiscovered by the Gestapo . The help for Jewish citizens also remained undiscovered. After the war, Halstenbach tried to reopen the Church University of Wuppertal .
During the Second World War , writers from the Eckart Circle met for literary evenings in the villa's hall. In the park, the gardener's house was rededicated as a private school, and later politicians such as Johannes Rau and Kurt Drees received lessons from a schoolteacher here. The gardener's house was inhabited by Helmut Kahlhöfer , organist of the Immanuelskirche since December 1945 and founder of the Barmen-Gemarke choir , which rehearsed in the house until 1950. In 1947, the Klingelholl student Bible group organized a parents' evening in the house, in which Klaus Goebel and Heinz Engel , among others, participated.
August 17, 1945 is another important date for this house and at the same time for the political development of West Germany after the Second World War. In the master bedroom of the villa, evangelical Christians met politically interested to the former on reviving the Center Party thinking. In addition to Halstenbach, this group included Ernst Plutte , Emil Marx , Otto Schmidt , whose villa was diagonally across from Villa Halstenbach, Klaus Brauda , Hermann Lutze , Erwin Finkentey , Willi Hennes , Gustav Theill , Robert Pferdmenges and the later Federal President Gustav Heinemann .
According to Lutze reminder: " ... It was only in the course of the discussion that the decision to found a new Christian gathering party matured ... ". This marked the birth of the Christian Democratic Party (CDP), which later formed as the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). The party was officially founded on September 2, 1945 in Cologne .
After Halstenbach's widow died in 1967, rooms in the villa were rented to students. In 1970 the villa was threatened with demolition to make way for high-rise buildings. But the classification as a monument on January 28, 1985 preceded the demolition. The lower protective position extends to the whole building including the roadside fence consisting of wrought iron fence on natural stone base. In 1980 the family sold the house and the new owner converted it into condominiums and apartments. The city of Wuppertal took over the rear part of the spacious park and built a retirement home there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Klaus Goebel : Historical scenes in Wuppertal, Solingen and Remscheid . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1990, ISBN 3-87093-043-8
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ a b Kurt Schnöring: Wuppertal Street Stories - Where Goethe once slept and “Derrick” picked pears . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2005, ISBN 3-8313-1591-4
literature
- Hermann Lutze : Stop in Wuppertal , Cologne, 1984
- Festschrift 20 years CDU Wuppertal , Wuppertal 1966
- Rainer Hendricks: Villa Halstenbach. History of a house and the manufacturing families Mittelsten Scheid, Lekebusch and Halstenbach , Schwelm, 1996, ISBN 3-00-000937-X
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 9 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 29.2 ″ E