The Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus in the Bonn district of Südstadt was built for the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt .
9-541: The 19th-century building is Bonn's oldest Rhine villa and is now used as a branch of the Stadtmuseum Bonn . It is located at Adenauerallee 79, about 50 metres (160 ft) from the Rhine bank. The villa is listed under Denkmalschutz . Ernst Moritz Arndt had the villa built from January 1819 at the latest in a wine-growing area outside the city walls of the time. The builder had been appointed professor of modern history at
18-530: A building erected in the 1970s at Franziskanerstraße 9, opposite the university building adjacent to Koblenzer Tor in downtown Bonn . The two floors used by the museum previously belonged to the sauna and cleaning wing of the now abandoned Viktoriabad . A further whereabouts in the premises is unclear. In 1886 an association was founded in Bonn with the aim of creating a city history museum. Today's Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein transferred its extensive collection to
27-508: The Rhine. The building stands on a rectangular ground plan, consisting of two above-ground floors and a high hip roof . The front and rear façades are articulated in five axes, with a three-axis avant-corps protruding from the front, crowned by a triangular gable . This gable is also found at the rear, but here without a risalit. On the north side of the villa, there is a one-storey, also hipped-roofed, utility and garage building. An inscription in
36-607: The city of Bonn in the mid-1950s. As a result, there was close cooperation between the association and the city archive. In the anniversary year 1989 ("2000 years of Bonn"), the city council under Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann decided to found the Stadtmuseum Bonn, although no suitable premises were available at the time. In the early years only the small Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Haus in the Adenauerallee 79. Small special exhibitions and cultural events take place here. The founding director of
45-583: The door cornice of the front facade refers, according to the builder, to "a sweet spot" in the Rügen homeland. Presumably a small oak grove of the same name near Arndt's birthplace Groß Schoritz is meant. This house is in God's hand and Lülo is the name of it[.] God's peace and joy will move in with us[,] then happiness will be the gatekeeper Since 1989, the Bonn City Museum, founded in that year, has continued to use
54-411: The exhibitions are managed by Ingrid Bodsch . 50°43′44″N 7°06′39″E / 50.7289°N 7.1108°E / 50.7289; 7.1108 Stadtmuseum Bonn Stadtmuseum Bonn was founded in 1989 and is dedicated to the representation of Bonn's city and cultural history as well as the presentation and maintenance of the extensive collection. The museum rooms are currently located in
63-408: The newly founded and nearby Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in Bonn in 1818 and had acquired two vineyards on a hill directly on the Rhine in the same year. The Royal Prussian Building Inspector Friedrich Waesemann was engaged as architect. The Arndt family moved into the house as early as October 1819, even before the interior work was completed the following February and the pink paint
72-525: The villa for special exhibitions, concerts and readings. In addition to being used for events or exhibitions, the Arndt Villa is run as a museum. On the ground floor, a room is furnished with furniture from the estate of Ernst Moritz Arndt; there are also several contemporary portraits of the poet. The upper floor is furnished in the Biedermeier style, in keeping with the period of construction. The museum and
81-592: Was finished in September 1820. Arndt lived in the villa until his death in 1860. Since 1867, the building has been owned by the city of Bonn. The Neoclassicism designed villa is situated on an approximately 6,000 m (65,000 sq ft) rectangular plot of land extending from the Adenauerallee to the Rheinuferstraße (here Rathenauufer ); the villa is located at the eastern end of the park-like grounds, above
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