House Lesmona
The house Lesmona is like building houses in Bremen - St. Magnus . It is located on the high bank of the Lesum in the southwest corner of today's Knoops Park and is currently used as a residential building and gallery. The name refers to the Latinized name for the Lesum river, namely Lesmona .
Haus Lesmona has been a listed building since 1973 and has been part of the Knoops Park monument group since 2010.
history
1814 Merchants Anton and Henry Walter Raleigh built on a large plot in the classical style of a country house that Heinrichsburg was called. In 1882 the Melchers family, owners of C. Melchers & Co , acquired the villa. The staff and guests were accommodated in a second building.
The summer months from 1893 to 1896 were also spent in the villa by the writer Magda Melchers , the wife of the Kunsthalle director Gustav Pauli since 1896 . She was the niece of the owner at the time, Hermann Melchers, and during this time exchanged letters with a friend about her unfulfilled love, which appeared in the form of a letter novel in 1951 under the pseudonym Marga Berck with the title Summer in Lesmona by Christian Wegner Verlag with great success. This book was filmed in 1985 under the direction of Peter Beauvais with Katja Riemann in the leading role by Radio Bremen ; The park and the villa were the scene of the main acts. In 2001 the Magdalene Melchers monument was erected as a bronze bust below the villa.
In 1922 the property was sold to a tobacco merchant. In 1939 the city of Bremen bought Haus Lesmona and set up the isolation ward for a hospital. After 1945 war returnees lived in the buildings.
In 1975 the horticultural department of the Bremen-Nord building authority took over the building, which was destroyed by arson in 1980. The outer walls were preserved.
The villa was rebuilt after 1980 by the artist couple Birgit and Jürgen Waller and today also serves as a gallery. Waller organized larger exhibitions in Haus Lesmona in 1990, 1995 and 2004.
Haus Lesmona is next door to Haus Schotteck , which was built until 1894 and named after its first user, the banker Georg Wolde, known for his avarice as "Schotte Wolde". In 1949 Haus Lesmona was also used for the Haus Schotteck tuberculosis sanatorium .
The Hofmeierhaus Lesmona from 1905 also belonged to the Lesmona estate .
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Bernd W. Seiler: The Villa Lesmona of the Melchers family . In: H. Roder (Ed.): Bremen, trading city on the river . Bremen 1995, pp. 159-161.
- Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the architecture of Bremen . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1964.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 45.2 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 54.9 ″ E