Wilhelm Auguste Viktoria House
The Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus (now also known as the Palastweiher ) is a villa with an attached gym in Königswinter , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , built in 1910/11. The building is on Winzerstrasse (house number 7) east of the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine . It is a listed building and is now used as a municipal event and cultural building.
history
The building was created as a donation from the factory owner Ferdinand Mülhens , who is based on the Wintermühlenhof , to the city of Königswinter, based on a design by the Honnef architect Ottomar Stein . As a “people's well-being building”, it should be available for use by clubs, events and public facilities such as a library , drawing and music hall, and the rear hall extension (built in 1908) should serve as a gym. It was dedicated to the then Empress Auguste Viktoria . The construction plans had received a revision in the sense of Art Nouveau during the execution . Since the war year 1916 the gymnasium served as a hospital . In 1923 the people's welfare building was converted for the first time.
During the Nazi era , the Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus was initially used as a home for the Hitler Youth , and a middle school was established here in 1939 . Towards the end of World War II , the building housed a field hospital with an air raid shelter . After the end of the war, a girls' college was located in the People's Welfare Building until it moved to a new building in 1971. From 1975 to 2002 it served as the seat of the education and advice center of the Rhein-Sieg district . In 2005, after extensive renovation, the local group Kultur der Lokalen Agenda 21 moved into the building as a tenant in order to use it as an art forum ( Kunstforum Palastweiher ). The former drawing room on the upper floor was now divided into three rooms rented out as studios . The property also serves as a study house for Celtic languages and culture.
architecture
The main building of the Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus is a three-storey plastered building with a mansard hipped roof on a high basement , which has an ashlar structure . It has decorative forms that can be attributed to Art Nouveau (iron grating on the entrance door), Neo-Baroque ( oculus as window shape ) and Neoclassicism ( triangular gable ). The entrance is located on the facade facing Winzerstraße, framed by a lava basalt wall . The builder (Ferdinand Mülhens) and architect (Ottomar Stein) are noted in an inscription framed by floral ornaments . Inside there are gilded coffered and stucco ceilings that were exposed during the recent renovation.
The rear, single-storey gymnasium is barrel-vaulted and supported by lava basalt buttresses with windows and an oculus on each side. The roof turret is polygonal and includes a stepped hood . Two round arched gates are let into the front, in the gable area there is the inscription Gut Heil .
literature
- Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 187.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Menden: Königswinter in old views. Volume 2, European Library, Zaltbommel 1981, Fig. 21
- ^ A villa with a gym , General-Anzeiger , March 10, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 49.1 ″ E