Villa Heckenfels
The Villa Heckenfels (also Berghaus Heckenfels ) is a villa in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The villa (address: Bondorfer Straße 34) is a solitary building above the district of Bondorf at 135 m above sea level. NHN on the slopes of the Siebengebirge and on the edge of the Honnef city forest . It is accessible from Bondorfer Strasse via a private access road.
history
The villa was created according to a design by the Honnef architect Fritz Wolfgarten. The garden design was in the hands of the independent garden architect Victor Calles (1901–1969) in Cologne from 1921 . In order to open up the view over the Rhine valley, the trees in the way were removed. The property was named after the surrounding parcel Am Heckenfels or Heckenfeldt , which once comprised meadows, wood and vineyards .
After the Second World War , Belgian occupation forces, led by General Jean-Baptiste Piron, seized the villa. After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and the Belgian armed forces left the city, it served as the residence of the British Deputy High Commissioner . This position was held from 1949 to 1950 by Christopher Steel (1903–1973), who lived there with his wife. During his tenure, he held talks with Herbert Blankenhorn in the villa, then called “Maison Blanche” (“White House”) . Later the property was the residence of Wilhelm Lepper, owner of the August Lepper company named after his father and founded by him .
Today the villa is rented out for events and filming purposes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Valentien: House gardens . In: Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): Planning and building in the new Germany , Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 1960, p. 429.
- ↑ Helmut Arntz (with the assistance of Adolf Nekum ): Urkataster und Gewannen: using the example of the community of Honnef 1824/1826 . (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV : Studies on the local history of the city of Bad Honnef am Rhein , Issue 13, Bad Honnef 2000; Society for the History of Wine eV .: Writings on Wine History , ISSN 0302-0967 , No. 133, Wiesbaden 2000) p. 128.
- ^ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , p. 59.
- ↑ Christopher Audland: Right place, right time , Memoir Club, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84104-091-2 , p. 88.
- ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt: "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 215.
- ↑ Herbert Blankenhorn: Understanding and Understanding: Pages of a Political Diary 1949 to 1979. Propylaen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-549-07396-8 , p. 80
- ↑ Villa Heckenfels ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Film entourage caused bottleneck Im Gier , General-Anzeiger , August 7, 2012
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 50.8 ″ E