Villa Herminghaus

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Villa Herminghaus Velbert
Villa Herminghaus Velbert

The Villa Herminghaus , partly also the Herminghaus Villa , is an entrepreneur villa built in 1885 in Velbert-Mitte , Kolpingstrasse 34.

The foundry owner Carl Tiefenthal senior submitted the building application for the neo-Renaissance building in 1885. The villa remained in the possession of the Tiefenthal family until 1913 and then became the property of the Emil Herminghaus family . The building has had its current name since then. Herminghaus was an entrepreneur whose castle factory and iron foundry were adjacent to the house except for a small garden. After the expropriation and the departure of the entrepreneur Herminghaus, the house and the ruined factory stood empty until the early 1970s and then became the property of the city of Velbert. After extensive renovation in the early 1980s, the building has served various departments of the city administration, currently the city's cultural office. The Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation placed the Villa Herminghaus under monument protection in 2001 . The interior fittings of the villa, which are still largely preserved, and the two-winged entrance door are also significant.

The villa is located on Kolpingstrasse, which at the time of construction was still called Kirchstrasse because of the adjoining St. Marien Church , and borders in the north on the edge of the city center at the intersection of Kolpingstrasse and Oststrasse. In the south are the municipal forum and the Europaplatz , mostly just called forum square.

At the end of 2009 it was announced that the market center adjacent to Europaplatz, which had been vacant for several years, was to give way to a large shopping center. For this project, Europaplatz would have had to be built on and Villa Herminghaus demolished. At the beginning of 2010 a citizens' initiative was founded to oppose the demolition of the villa. In February 2010, the application by the city of Velbert to lift the monument protection and demolish the villa was rejected by the LVR Office for Monument Preservation in the Rhineland . The citizens' initiative had collected in the weeks before already signed for receipt of the villa to necessary a referendum to bring about. Since the shopping center was still to be completed by 2014, it was now planned to fundamentally renovate the Villa Herminghaus, integrate it into the shopping center and relocate the German Castle and Fittings Museum to the villa. In October 2013 it became known that the planned shopping center would not be realized after the investor's withdrawal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Info folder Market Center of the City of Velbert from October 17, 2011, pp. 19–21. ( online ; PDF; 1.2 MB)
  2. ↑ Der Westen.de: Controversy about the Herminghaus villa. “Significant Importance,” dated December 23, 2009.
  3. ↑ The Westen.de: demolition planned. Villa in the way , from December 19, 2009.
  4. ↑ The Westen.de: decide preservationists. The Villa Herminghaus remains from February 17, 2010.
  5. ↑ The Westen.de: shopping center in Velbert is not built , October 30, 2013.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 46.3 ″  E