Villa Lenders

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Villa Lenders, 2016

The so-called Villa Lenders was a twin house in the Bayenthal district of Cologne . It was located on the south side of Schönhauser Strasse 65/67, corner of Bonner Strasse, and characterized the townscape . Due to its facade design, the representative residential property looked like a classicist villa.

history

Carl Friedrich Mann , a Cologne entrepreneur from Schildau in the Prussian province of Saxony , acquired the Lender manor house on Schönhauser Strasse, north of what was then Bayenthal , south of Cologne in 1869 and 1873 . His goal was to found a middle-class residential colony. At the intersection of Bonner, Brühler and Schönhauer Strasse, he had numerous rental houses built. He called this residential colony Mannsfeld ; it developed into a separate district, which only became part of the Bayenthal and Raderberg districts after 1945 .

In this context, in addition to the “Lenderschen Gut”, the double dwelling later called “Villa Lenders” was built in 1876.

Appearance and art historical significance

The “villa” was not a villa , but a two- or three-storey double residential building that stood away from Schönhauser Strasse. A small front garden with historic fencing separated the property from the street. The three-storey middle section was crowned by a balustrade and emphasized the stately character of the building. The two two-storey side wings were bent back, which was reminiscent of baroque palace architecture . The late classicist facade of the building was in the tradition of bourgeois suburb development in the central Rhineland . It was not aimed at Schönhauser Strasse, but directly at Cologne Cathedral . This had been completed at the time the "villa" was built. The "Villa Lenders" was the last Schinkel style building from the 1870s of its kind in Cologne.

demolition

The property is owned by the city of Cologne, which demolished the building in March 2018 in order to widen the intersection of Bonner and Schönhauser Strasse in connection with the construction of the light rail on Bonner Strasse. The last tenant was given notice on December 31, 2012.

As part of this planning, the “Villa Lenders” was named Monument of the Month for June 2012 by the “Working Group Monument of the Month” in the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection (RVDL) and presented to the public.

literature

  • Alexander Hess: "Villa Lenders" - Monument of the Month June 2012. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . Vol. 49, No. 4, 2012, pp. 300-302.
  • Barbara Schock-Werner : Cologne to the point. In it: The missing district villa Lenders. Cologne 2015, pp. 56–59.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Hess: "Villa Lenders" - Monument of the Month June 2012. P. 301.
  2. ↑ a b Alexander Hess: "Villa Lenders" - Monument of the Month June 2012. P. 302.
  3. ^ Ingo Schmitz: Bonner Strasse: The last days of the Villa Lenders. In: Kölnische Rundschau , February 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ Invitation to the presentation: Monument of the Month June 2012 - Villa Lenders in Cologne Bayenthal (formerly Cologne-Mannsfeld). (PDF; 140 KB) Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection , archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; Retrieved September 25, 2014 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 46 ″  E