Villa Tivoli Aachen

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Villa Tivoli, engraving by Thomas Cranz

The Villa Tivoli (also Gut Tivoli ) in the Soers in Aachen - Laurensberg was a representative residential building that no longer exists today. It was on the former Sandkaulsteinweg 205, today's Krefelder Straße ( B57 ). In Carl Borromäus Cünzer's 1851 novella Folie des Dames , the property is the main setting for the plot.

Building history

The new Tivoli at Krefelder Straße 205 (2013)

The Tivoli estate was probably built in 1806 by the Aachen builder Jakob Couven . The villa was named after the Villa Adriana , the summer residence of the Roman emperor Hadrian (76-138) near the city of Tivoli .

The original owner of the estate is unknown. Villa Tivoli has seen many changes of ownership and has repeatedly been privately owned. On December 30, 1864, the photographer Jacob Wothly bought this property , consisting of 10 ½ acres (about 33,350 m²) including residential and economic area. He redesigned the previous garden restaurant for his own purposes: His aim was photographic analysis and the establishment of an institute for teaching photography. Wothly ran an optical lens glass mill on the property.

By Hermann Wilhelm Vogel a description of the Villa Tivoli at the time of Jacob Wothly from 1865 is known: "The villa is located on the highway, but separated from it by a cute garden."

From March 1908, the city of Aachen rented a meadow from the old Tivoli estate to Alemannia Aachen and, at great expense , expanded the Tivoli sports field in-house. This area was used by the Alemannia until the new construction of the Tivoli stadium , which was located in the immediate vicinity, until 1928 and later by the Post Sports Club 1925 Aachen . During this time there was a restaurant Groß Tivoli on the property which also served the Post Sports Club as a club house. At that time, the property was owned by the Deutsche Bundespost, among others . The Post-Telekom-Sportverein 1925 Aachen got a replacement piece of land on Eulersweg in Aachen in 2007 .

Since August 2009, the Soers sports park with the new Tivoli has been located on the former property of the Villa Tivoli .

literature

  • Karl Borromäus Cünzer: Foil of the lady. (Reissued after the original version from 1851 and annotated by Paul Kuetgens; illustrations by Bert Heller ) Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei-Gesellschaft, Aachen 1932.
  • Franz Lohmeyer: Good Tivoli. In: Soers Schützenbruderschaft. (Festschrift) Burg, Stolberg 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diary of a Viennese photographer. In: Photographic correspondence . Journal for scientific and applied photography and all reproduction technology , 1865.
  2. ↑ A visit to Jakob Wothly. In: Echo der Gegenwart from February 1, 1866. Quoted from: Josef Lambertz: Aachener Leben im Spiegel des Echo der Gegenwart. Aachen 2003.
  3. ↑ Site plan on the PTSV Aachen website.

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 31.2 "  N , 6 ° 5 ′ 45.6"  E