Villa Leonhart

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View from the northeast (2013)

The Villa Leonhart is a villa in Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was built in 1893, but was given its current appearance at the end of the 1930s. The villa is including an associated park as a monument under monument protection .

location

View from the southeast (2009)

The villa is in a prominent urban position at the north-western entrance of Königswinter's old town on the corner of Hauptstrasse / Clemens-August-Strasse with the address Hauptstrasse 330 and extends with the park area to the west as far as Rheinallee above the banks of the Rhine .

history

The villa was built in 1893 as a country house with a classicist Belvedere by the family of Baron von Leonhart-Kurtzrock , who had settled in Königswinter in the mid-19th century. She remained in the property of the building until 1935 when, after the death of Freiin Sophie von Leonhart-Kurtzrock (* September 22, 1852, † August 22, 1935), no descendants from the family could be found as heirs. Instead, the Catholic Church took over and sold the property to the German Labor Front (DAF) in 1936 . In 1936/37 it served as a school for German emigrants from Spain who had been brought to safety due to the civil war there. In October 1937, plans for a renovation of the villa on behalf of the German Labor Front (DAF) were announced, which had a training center in today's Adam-Stegerwald-Haus in Königswinter. Following the building application from December 10, 1937, the building permit was granted on January 20, 1938 . The renovation went hand in hand with a structural expansion and was based on the Bauhaus style based on a design by the local architect Franz Josef Krings (1886–1968). The building then served as the DAF guest house. Users included Robert Ley , the head of the DAF, whose wife lived in the villa with her child during her divorce from Ley. Towards the end of World War II in December 1944, the officer pulled the Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP in Gau Cologne-Aachen in the guesthouse of DAF. In 1949 a dining room and a winter garden or a veranda were added as part of a renovation for a planned but not realized use of the villa as a casino .

In July 1952 the state of Pakistan took over the property and established the residence of its embassy there , the residence of the ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn (→ list of diplomatic missions ). The property passed into the possession of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia at the latest in the following time . In 1987/88, the symbolism still existing on the building, going back to the conversion to the DAF guest house, became the subject of a public debate: After a corresponding decision in the city council of May 1987, the swastikas used to decorate the window grilles were closed with additional metal bars on January 27, 1988 converted to a square pattern. In 1995 Pakistan gave up the ambassadorial residence in the run-up to the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999). The Villa Leonhart stood empty until the land was acquired by the municipal economic development agency until 2007. It was then sold on a long lease to Hermann Josef Nolden, who had the villa extensively restored and converted in 2008. A gourmet restaurant opened there in January 2009 and received a Michelin star in November 2009 .

The Bonn-based consulting company Wild Consulting Training Coaching GmbH has been using Villa Leonhart since May 2016 . Meetings, events and seminars for customers of the company are held here. The villa can also be booked as an event location for events.

The villa was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on May 23, 1995.

description

Rhine front (to the park)

The villa is two-storey, has a solid construction, a mansard roof and has five axes . On the front facing the main street, it has a three-story tower. The renovation in the Bauhaus style in 1938 resulted in cubic porches on the north side, which accommodate the entrance and a garage, as well as stepped gables and a terrace porch on the Rhine front. The usable area of the building is 610 m².

park

The park of the villa, enclosed by a wall and iron grating , was purchased by the city and has been open to the public since September 2009 after a three-month renovation as part of the Regionale 2010 . It covers an area of ​​3700 m² and is the location of a military cemetery , a historic pump house of the municipal sewage works and a pavilion from the time of the renovation in 1938. An unknown number of Austrian soldiers who died in the hospital were buried in the military cemetery in 1793 . A swimming pool , which was originally also located in the park, was converted into a bed during the recent renovation.

literature

  • Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 150.
  • Renate Wald: My father Robert Ley. My memories and father's story , Nümbrecht 2004.
  • 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. 140-141.
  • Address book of the Siegkreis 1940, Cologne 1940.

Web links

Commons : Villa Leonhart  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 290
  2. ↑ formerly Hauptstrasse 119
  3. ↑ Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter (= monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 46.
  4. ↑ Life data according to the coat of arms in the mausoleum of the Leonhart-Kurtzrock family in the Am Palastweiher cemetery
  5. ^ Echo des Siebengebirge , October 28, 1937
  6. ↑ Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter (= monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 106.
  7. ↑ Villa Leonhart once again a prominent focus in Königswinter , General-Anzeiger , March 25, 2009
  8. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 602/603 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  9. ↑ There is still dust in the air, but soon it will smell coffee , General-Anzeiger, July 25, 2008
  10. ↑ The history of the Siebengebirge region at a glance , Heimatverein Siebengebirge eV
  11. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 641/642. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007)
  12. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  13. ^ "Particularly iridescent mosaic stone" , Bonner Rundschau , September 22, 2004
  14. ^ Only a lonely rose is still in bloom , General-Anzeiger , September 13, 2006
  15. ↑ The design of the park of the Königswinterer Villa Leonhart takes shape , General-Anzeiger , March 11, 2008
  16. ↑ http://www.ksta.de/region/rhein-sieg-bonn/restaurant-kritik-villa-leonhart-beste-gourmet- Adresse- 5485144
  17. ^ Buyer wanted for Villa Leonhart , Kölnische Rundschau , March 1, 2016
  18. ^ Villa Leonhart sold , Kölnische Rundschau , May 10, 2016
  19. ↑ Start of conference and seminar operations in the Villa Leonhart , General-Anzeiger , October 14, 2016
  20. ↑ Home . In: Villa Leonhart . ( villaleonhart.de [accessed on August 1, 2017]).
  21. ↑ Königswinter: The redesign of the Villa Leonhart park will start shortly ( memento from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , press release from the city of Königswinter
  22. ↑ Contemplative celebration of the inauguration (PDF; 183 kB) , General-Anzeiger , September 28, 2009
  23. ↑ Embassy Park is transformed into a beer garden , General-Anzeiger , May 10, 2004
  24. ↑ Ambassador present. Heimatverein has memorial cross set up in the park of Villa Leonhart , General-Anzeiger , March 15, 2007

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 36.4 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 27.7"  E