Villa Prieger

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View from north-east (2013)
View from the south-west (2013)
Photo of the villa (late 19th century)
Architectural drawing from 1864

The Villa Prieger is a villa in the Gronau district of Bonn , which was built from 1864 to 1866. It is located above the banks of the Rhine at Raiffeisenstrasse 2-4. Today the villa is the center of Monday foundations and stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The villa was built from 1864 to 1866 for the builder Oskar Prieger (1820–1897), a doctor, based on a design by Bonn city ​​architect Paul Richard Thomann . Stylistically , she combines elements of the Italian Renaissance , English Picturesque and antiquity . At the time of construction, it had a park stretching from Koblenzer Strasse to the banks of the Rhine and was located in an urban-planning row equivalent to the recently built Troost (now Hammerschmidt ) and Loeschigk (now Palais Schaumburg ) villas . Erich Prieger (1849–1913), musicologist and co-founder of the Beethoven House , took over the villa in the second generation and turned it into a meeting place for the music world. Some valuable music archives were stored there at that time.

The villa was changed in the following decades through some renovations and additions. After the view of the Siebengebirge had been impaired by the construction of the Villa Spiritus and the bank wall there (1895/96), the Prieger family had a two-storey garden hall and roof terrace built on the banks of the Rhine as a replacement and privacy screen .

At the end of the Second World War , the villa was destroyed on October 18, 1944 in the most devastating of the bombing raids on Bonn by stick bombs, except for the surrounding walls and the inner walls of the ground floor. After Bonn became the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the ruins of the villa were in the middle of the new parliament and government district . A large part of the property became the property of the German Raiffeisen Association , which established its headquarters there (“Raiffeisenhaus”). A restoration of the villa intended by parts of the Prieger family failed. In 1951 a residential pavilion was built in the north part of the park on the Rhine side, which was extended to the south in 1965. In 1976 the Prieger family sold the villa. The federal government, the new owner, intended to use it as a replacement property. A drawn consider demolition for a new building of the Federal prevented the protected status of the building in 1985. 1989 there were concrete plans to set up the guest house of the Foreign Office in the rebuilt Villa Prieger. In the same year an emergency roof was built on the ruins.

The federal government's plans were abandoned when the decision to move the seat of government to Berlin was taken in 1991 . The Villa Prieger was offered for sale. The entrepreneur Carl Richard Montag acquired it in 1996 and had it rebuilt with a significantly modernized facade from 1996 to 1999, with the exception of the music hall, while retaining the original floor plan and room structures. He established a residence there and also the seat of the Montag Foundations, whose campus extends to the surrounding buildings.

“Paul Thomann's extremely successful and very individual work grows (...) from different roots. Both the idea of ​​the antique villa and the asymmetrical composition of the English Picturesque with the tower of the 'Italian Villa' live on. But the tight design of his Berlin training and suggestions from Semper also show their effect. There is no doubt that he created something entirely of his own. "

- Olga Sunday (1998)

literature

  • Olga Sonntag : Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, pp. 202-204 (description of architecture and art-historical classification). (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
  • Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , volume 2, catalog (1), pp. 325–342 (building history and builders). (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)

Web links

Commons : Villa Prieger  - Collection of Images

References and comments

  1. ↑ Originally Coblenzer Straße 123 , later Coblenzer Straße 127
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 46, number A 866
  3. ↑ The fate of the war in German architecture. Loss - damage - reconstruction. Documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 1: Nord , Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-02685-9 , p. 390.
  4. ↑ Villa under monument protection , General-Anzeiger, city edition Bonn, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819-1914 , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-416-02618-7 , Volume 1, p. 204.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 26.3 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 56.4"  E