Villa Westermann

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The Villa Westermann is a former listed factory owner's villa in Hüsten (City of Arnsberg ).

Villa Westermann

History and construction

The villa was built around 1920 in the neoclassical style. But there are also stylistic elements of new objectivity and expressionism . It is located on the outskirts of the industrial district of Unterhüsten opposite the Neheim-Hüsten train station .

The villa is located in a deep garden plot. The building is two-story. The floors are separated from each other by a wide cornice. The copper-covered mansard roof is particularly striking . The street side in the south has a distinctive semicircular porch with a balcony. The main entrance with a monumental portico and outside staircase is on the east side.

The villa served as a manufacturer's villa for a metal industrial company founded in 1908 by the entrepreneur Martin Westermann. This finally traded as Westermann & Co. The entrepreneur families Westermann and Cronenberg lived in the villa in the 1930s. Because of the immediate vicinity of the factory, the building was given up as a residential building.

Since 1941 it has been a dormitory for women and girls who were employed in the company. It was not a question of the forced laborers employed by the company in large numbers, but of conscripted German female workers for the company that was considered to be important to the war effort. Their number ranged from 50 to 60.

In the 1950s, the villa was home to the employment office. Since the early 1960s it was used by the Westermann & Co. company as a residential and administrative building. In 1988 it was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Arnsberg . In recent years the house has been extensively restored and has been part of the company's outlet store since 2011 . A cooking school is also located there. During the restoration, numerous structural changes in terms of monument protection were reversed. In September 2013 the villa was named “Monument of the Month” by the Working Group of Historic City Centers in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forced labor in Arnsberg 1939-1945. Data, facts, background . Final documentation of the history workshop for forced labor Arnsberg, Heimatbund Neheim-Hüsten, Arnsberg 2007, ISBN 9783930264667 , p. 110
  2. ^ Villa Wesco: Monument of the month September 2013 , website of the city of Arnsberg

literature

  • Uwe Haltaufderheide: The architectural monuments of the city of Arnsberg. Collection period 1980–1990. City of Arnsberg, Arnsberg 1990, ISBN 3-928394-01-0 , pp. 208f.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 18.9 ″  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 17.6 ″  E