Villa Weyermann
The Villa Weyermann in Leichlingen (Rhineland) was part of a villa ensemble in a park on the Wupper , now on the “Am Hammer” street, designed by Joseph Clemens Weyhe .
history
The buildings were built for the Weyermann family from Elberfeld , who ran the A. Weyermann-Söhne Turkish red dyeing works in Leichlingen , the city's largest employer at the time. This flourishing company was founded in Elberfeld by Abraham Weyermann , later also a member of the council there, and moved to Leichlingen in 1865. It was under the direction of Abraham Weyermann's son, Kommerzienrat Rudolf Weyermann (1824–1889), who was also President of the Steamship Society for the Lower and Middle Rhine in Düsseldorf and a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament .
The land on which the dye works and the villas were built had inherited to the Weyermann family. The Elberfeld merchant Johann Friedrich Wülfing , member of the Conseil General of the Département Rhine , had acquired extensive property in the Bergisches Land during the Napoleon period. In Leichlingen, parts on the Wupper, Eicherhof Castle and the Büscherhof , Roderhof with Roderbirken and Staderhof were included. The area “am Hammer” went to his granddaughter Emma Schniewind, who was married to Rudolf Weyermann. In contrast, Eicherhof Palace, located in the immediate vicinity, fell to a sister of Emma Weyermann, Helena Schniewind, married to the secret councilor Wilhelm Boeddinghaus .
The oldest of the three villas, which has a pointed roof, was built in 1866. There was a restaurant in it until 2009. Today it is privately owned.
The most magnificent villa, called Villa Lindenhof at the time, served as Rudolf Weyermann's residence until his death. Her appearance had lost a lot after a fire. Among other things, the roof structure was completely burned out and replaced by a flat roof. This villa had served the city as the town hall for many decades since 1927. It was demolished in the early 1970s to make way for the municipal secondary school.
Rudolf Weyermann's son Ludwig and his family lived in the smaller building, now known as Villa Weyermann , but formerly known as the parking garage , until 1889. After the dye works were sold to the Opladen dye works owner A. Römer in 1890, the Weyermann family moved away from Leichlingen.
The Villa Weyermann (parking garage) was built in 1877 in the style of late historicism . A renovation took place in 1887. Later it came into the possession of the district, which sold it to the city of Leichlingen in 1957. In the following year the house was transformed into a hotel and operated as Hotel Lindenhof for 18 years . After a brief use as a youth center, the building was restored in accordance with the decision of the Council of the City of Leichlingen on December 4, 1978 in accordance with the guidelines for monument protection . The costs for this amounted to 1.3 million DM, of which the state of North Rhine-Westphalia took over 565,000 DM.
The villa Weyermann than today community center used and is available for meetings, adult education classes, club meetings, rehearsals, concerts, exhibitions, club or family celebrations.
Weyermannstrasse in Leichlingen and the Weyermannsaal in the community center were named after the family. Rudolf Weyermann's brothers were Franz Weyermann, owner of Hagerhof Castle near Bad Honnef and a friend of Johannes Brahms , and Moritz Weyermann, who was one of the first works by Charles Dickens to translate (including “Five Christmas Stories” ) into German. A sister, Marie Charlotte, married the German-Italian oil importer Karl Wedekind .
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 36 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 45 ″ E