Villa Schaaffhausen

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Villa Schaaffhausen (2016)
Villa Schaaffhausen (1844), with the "Wasserfall'schen Haus" demolished in 1856
Villa Schaaffhausen (Richard Huhnen 1923)
Park with Monopteros (2014)

The Villa Schaaffhausen is a castle-like complex in Bad Honnef , which received its present appearance from 1843 to 1870. It is located on Möschbach in the Rommersdorf district on Schaaffhausenstrasse (house number 5) on an area that rises from west to east towards the Korferberg .

The first manor buildings were built after the merger of two wineries in 1770 by the Cologne procurator and imperial notary Peter Gottschalk Wasserfall. In 1772 he had a massive tower blown up, which suggests a castle that had previously existed on the property. The owner transferred the villa to a relative, the Cologne bookseller Lambert Bachem, in 1818. From 1825 to 1836 it was inhabited by William Dawson, son-in-law of the Duke of Wellington . During this time the property was called "William's House" and was given a park that was created from the fields and vineyards on the property. The next owner (from 1841), again an Englishman, was named Lewis Agassiz. The northern part of the Tudor-style house from 1843 goes back to him . On May 26, 1846, the manufacturer Hubert Schaaffhausen acquired the 54- acre property for 18,000 thalers. In 1856 he had the south wing of the main house built by demolishing the so-called “Wasserfallschen Haus”.

The tower of today's villa was built under his son Hermann Schaaffhausen , and in 1865 a third floor was built towards the courtyard. In the 1870s, the house was a focal point of social life. The scientific reputation of Hermann Schaaffhausen attracted high representatives from the military, church and high nobility, including the later Kaiser Wilhelm II - who planted the "imperial oak" there in 1876. The Queen of Sweden also occasionally spent her holidays at Villa Schaaffhausen from 1892 to 1906. After the death of his wife, Schaaffhausen had a classical round temple built. He himself died in 1893 and bequeathed the villa to his son Hubert, who passed it on to his sisters. In 1926 it came to the Archdiocese of Cologne , which had smaller extensions built that year and in 1959. It set up a children's home there after the Second World War. In 1984 the archbishopric granted long-term heritable building rights to the villa, and since 1988 it has been used as a privately operated health center. A fundamental renovation of the villa and partial development of the property with residential buildings is planned.

With a half-timbered house (former winery) from 1776, Monopteros from 1874 and a park as a historical monument , the complex is a listed building . The base of the Monopteros is a grotto that is open on four sides and clad with lava stones . The villa was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bad Honnef on April 26, 1984.

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Web links

Commons : Villa Schaaffhausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rhöndorf (ed.); August Haag : Pictures from the past of Honnef and Rhöndorf .
  2. ^ New life in old walls , General-Anzeiger , February 27, 2013
  3. ^ Villa Schaaffhausen: Only 16 instead of 20 apartments on the site , General-Anzeiger , May 8, 2014
  4. ↑ New opportunity for the villa , General-Anzeiger , April 22, 2015
  5. ↑ Adolf Nekum : The viticulture in Honnef - memories of a 1,100 year history (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein "Herrschaft Löwenburg" eV : studies on the local history of the town of Bad Honnef am Rhein , issue 10). Bad Honnef 1993, p. 286.
  6. ^ Rita Hombach: landscape gardens in the Rhineland. The collection of the historical inventory and studies of the garden culture of the "long" 19th century. (Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 37) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-88462-298-8 , p. 209.
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 54

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 29.2 ″  E