Villa Vogelsang

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Garden and entrance side: Left the Remise, right the Villa Vogelsang (2004)
View from the Ruhr to the villa with the two corner towers (2005)

The Villa Vogelsang is a villa on the Ruhr heights in the Horst district of Essen on Antonienallee. The name goes back to one of the previous owners, the entrepreneur Wilhelm Vogelsang . On the park-like property there is also a former coach house in the immediate vicinity of the villa . The villa and coach house are under monument protection and are part of the route of industrial culture .

history

The entrepreneur Friedrich Ludwig Niemann had the villa and the coach house built in 1840–1850 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The buildings are located on a rock about 30 meters above the Ruhr . The property has a private park of around 25,000 m² with old trees. Niemann sold the property in 1870 to his authorized signatory Heinrich Dammer, who lived in the villa with his sister Eugenie.

As a result of bankruptcy, the property with the buildings was auctioned on September 27, 1910 by the Essen entrepreneur Wilhelm Vogelsang (1877–1939), who built and operated a carbide factory nearby on the site of the Horster Mühle auctioned by him at the same time . The Vogelsang family sold the property in 1947 to the German Red Cross , which used the villa as a maternal convalescent home.

In 1962 the property was acquired by the diocese of Essen and used as a monastery , namely as the German novitiate of the medical missionary sisters. The entrepreneur Reinhard Wiesemann bought the facility on July 1, 1994 and had the building restored in accordance with monument standards by 1999 .

building

The buildings were designed by Schinkel from 1840 to 1850 in the style of the then popular classicism . The villa is two-story with a high plinth area of ​​a basement , has a structured plastered facade , partly with ashlar, and a hipped roof . On the long side facing the garden there is a three-part central entrance with an open staircase in front and with dividing pillars , and above it a loggia with fluted columns. On the opposite long side facing the Ruhr there are two three-storey corner towers ; the base area is pulled forward there and forms a gallery or a central balcony between the corner towers. The villa was supplemented in the 20th century with modern extensions.

The remise consists of a two-storey, elongated building with a plastered facade and a gable roof .

Linuxhotel

Today there is a hotel with a conference venue in the villa and the outbuildings , the Linuxhotel . It is considered "one of the most unusual hotels in the Ruhr area ". The total of nine guest rooms and suites as well as the two conference and seminar rooms are equipped with extensive technical facilities for holding conferences and seminars on all aspects of Linux and free software .

Linuxhotel GmbH offers its own courses and training courses all year round , which mainly deal with the use of free software. Developers of open source projects often meet here on weekends. In addition, company seminars as well as events, events and family celebrations take place in the hotel. The hotel's space and facilities also include a leisure, fitness and sauna area .

Linuxhotel GmbH is a member of the Open Source Business Alliance .

literature

  • Horst Hahn, Mathias Kitschenberg: Villa Vogelsang - the original room setting rediscovered. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. No. 3, 1991, ISSN  0177-2619 , pp. 120-122.
  • Corneel Voigt , Reinhard Wiesemann: treasure hunters, industrial barons, nuns and inventors. The first 160 years of a villa in the Ruhr area . Nobel-Verlag, Essen 2001.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on November 12, 2016
  2. ^ Wolfgang Ritschl: Success with Linux Hotel. Austria 1 (Ö1), July 21, 2005, accessed on July 1, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Offer for open source projects Website of Linuxhotel GmbH. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ FOSSGIS Hacking Event 2019 number 12 website of FOSSGIS eV. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ The FrOSCon Team Meets at Linuxhotel Website of the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) eV. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  6. ↑ Members of the IT provider / service provider website of the Open Source Business Alliance eV. Retrieved June 7, 2019.


Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 44 ″  E