Villa Post

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The Villa Post in Hagen

The Villa Post is a historic, listed villa in Hagen , which has been used as a municipal adult education center after modernization.

The villa is centrally located near the train station in a small park with old beech trees . It was built in 1892 by the Wehringhausen merchant Wilhelm Post in the late Classicist style based on the Renaissance : a cubic , two-storey brick building with ashlar structure and a pan-roofed, gently sloping hip roof . Columns at the entrance portal, shell rosettes and applied pilasters adorn the late classical facade. The marble entrance area, the lush wooden interior and the numerous and spacious rooms inside are evidence of the wealth of the owner. The successful entrepreneur had the villa built for himself and his family in a spacious park very close to his hammer mills .

In 1927 the city of Hagen acquired the villa and used it as a museum from 1932. Mainly works by the painter Christian Rohlfs , who lived in Hagen for many years, were exhibited here. During the National Socialist era , the museum was increasingly geared towards the Nazi ideology. In 1937, as part of the NS campaign against "degenerate art", almost all of Rohlfs' works were removed from the museum and many were destroyed. After various uses since the 1950s, for example as an official place for the census or as an educational institution, the building was listed as a historical monument in 1987.

After extensive restoration work - financed by the European Union, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Hagen - the Villa Post was handed over in 1998 to serve as the headquarters and seminar building of the Volkshochschule Hagen as a municipal training center.

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Commons : Villa Post  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '25.9 "  N , 7 ° 27' 21.5"  E