Villa Selve

Villa Selve, Rhine front (between 1893 and 1898)

Villa Selve, street front (after 1898)

The Villa Selve (former names Villa Böker and Villa Martius ) was a villa on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn , which existed as a ruin from 1872/1873 to 1949 and from 1949 to 1955. It was in the district of Gronau in the center of today's landscape park between Palais Schaumburg and Villa Hammerschmidt .

history

The villa was built in 1872/1873 for the client Hermann Heinrich Böker between the then Villa Loeschigk in the south and Villa Koenig in the north. It is the last to be added to the first development phase on Bonn's banks of the Rhine (1819–1872). The building plot had an area of 34,062 square meters. The villa was probably built according to a design by the Berlin architects Walter Kyllmann and Adolf Heyden . In 1873, Böker had a stable and coach house built on what was then Cöln-Mainzer Staatsstrasse . In 1876, the approval for the construction of a garden wall on the Staatsstrasse ( Coblenzer Strasse , later called Adenauerallee ) was granted. The Böker family sold the villa in 1892 to the university lecturer Götz Martius , who added a terrace roof in 1893. In 1899 the property was transferred to the entrepreneur Gustav Selve . In 1901 a coachman's apartment was built above the stable building, which the construction engineer Albert Trappe planned.

In the same year, under the direction of the Cologne architect Johann Georg Eberlein (1858–1918; son of Georg Eberlein ) near the Nibelungen grotto of the adjacent Villa Hammerschmidt, a garden hall called Walhalla was built on the Rhine side of the property , which also served as a viewing platform. An adjacent flight of stairs to the Rhine promenade followed in 1902. In 1922 the apartment above the stable building was extended. During the Second World War , the roof structure of the villa was destroyed, and the Selve family's asset management team erected a temporary emergency roof to replace it. After the end of the war, the building was used by the officers' staff of the Belgian armed forces , after whose planned move the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn intended to accommodate the Evangelical Theological Faculty here in 1947.

After Bonn was designated the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, it became the owner of the neighboring Villa Hammerschmidt (seat of the Federal President ) and the Palais Schaumburg (seat of the Federal Chancellery ). The Villa Selve with its 18 rooms and a usable area of 730 m² went up in flames when the occupation troops moved out. After the establishment of the Federal Border Guard as a special federal police force in March 1951, the three properties of the villas (from north to south) Hammerschmidt, Selve (in ruins) and Schaumburg were jointly guarded by them. The Federal Criminal Police Office , which was founded at the same time, used the stables and coach house of the villa from 1951 until at least 1953. In 1955 the community of heirs of Selve sold the area to the federal government. The villa, coach house and coach house were demolished and the dividing property walls removed. The now shared park was linked to that of Palais Schaumburg in 1954. On the Romanesque vault of the garden shed then was the so-called Chancellor's teahouse and east of the foundations of the Villa - closer to the Rhine - 1964, designed by Sep Ruf of Kanzlerbungalow .

Individual evidence

^ 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. 25.
^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 821.
↑ Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 2, Catalog (1)
↑ From the Federal Police Criminal Office to the International Security Authority. 60 years of the Federal Criminal Police Office. In: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. Edition 27, year 2012, Edition Blattwelt, Reinhard Zado, Niederhofen 2011, ISBN 978-3-936256-46-8 , p. 174.

literature

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. 351-361. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1994)
City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , pp. 20, 59/60 (with illustration).

Web links

Commons : Villa Selve - Collection of Images

50.721389 7.117778Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 17 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 4 ″ E

[1] 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. 25.

[hagspiel1996-2] Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 821.

[Sonntag2-3] Olga Sonntag: Villas on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn: 1819–1914 , Volume 2, Catalog (1)

[4] From the Federal Police Criminal Office to the International Security Authority. 60 years of the Federal Criminal Police Office. In: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. Edition 27, year 2012, Edition Blattwelt, Reinhard Zado, Niederhofen 2011, ISBN 978-3-936256-46-8 , p. 174.