SATURDAY, 23.09.2023: INVITATION TO THE BUS TRIP TO THE AHR

• Programme:
• 10:00 am: Departure Vilich, bus stop Bonn Vilich Kloster (Käsbergstraße)!
• Drive via Bad Bodendorf to Ahrweiler, there visit to the Schützenmuseum with expert explanations on the restoration of the Quirinus figure
• Stay "on your own" in Ahrweiler, approx. 1 hr.
• Onward journey with stops in Dernau, Rech and/or Mayschoß, incl. expert explanations.
• Continue to Hönningen, visit the "Hubertus Chapel" (painting and altar), which has just been restored by volunteers.
• Continue to Dümpelfeld, where you can visit the historic railway bridge and learn about flood protection.
• "Body and Soul": Conclusion at the "Gasthaus Strohe
• Departure at 19:00 to Vilich
  (Subject to change!)

• Art historical direction : Dr Ulrich Eltgen
• Overall management: Claudia Knöfel
• Bus company: Axel Wolf Busreisen, Cologne

Price for club members EUR 25,00 p.p.
Price for non-members EUR 30,00 p.p.

The number of participants is limited, therefore registration is required under denkmalverein.bonn@t-online.de

To the registration by mail
Download invitation letter as pdf

MONDAY, 02.10.2023 FROM 5 - 7 P.M.: FAMILY RESEARCH CONSULTATION HOUR

Would you like to know where your family name comes from or where your ancestors lived?

For this purpose, we regularly offer you a personal consultation hour every first Monday of the month in the "Central Office for Family Research" in the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus.

Waltraud Boß, a proven genealogist and author of various family books from the region, will answer your questions.

Participation is free of charge. Please register by mail so that Ms. Boß can prepare for your questions.

Send mail to Denkmalverein
More information about the Beueler Zentralstelle für Familienforschung

THURSDAY, 07.09.2023: NOTICE OF AN EVENT IN THE CHURCH ST. JOSEF

TUESDAY, 29.08.2023 StroofKOLLEG

"How the Foveaux Cottage Came to the Ennert - and a Little Temple to the Finkenberg".
The end of Heisterbach Abbey and the whereabouts of its architectural sculptures and art treasures

Lecture by Katrin Heitmann M.A., Bad Honnef

• Tuesday, 29 August 2023
• 8.00 p.m. in the St. Gallus Küdinghoven parish hall, Gallusstraße 11-13 (Küdinghoven)
• Free admission; "for a glass of wine" to round off the evening

After 1803, the Cistercian Abbey of Heisterbach was also dissolved. The buildings were auctioned off to the highest bidders, their art treasures destroyed or scattered all over the world.

Some of the architectural sculpture, however, columns and capitals, as well as sculptures and gravestones, quickly found a new use as decoration in the parks of the local landlords.

Among them was J. H. Foveaux from the Mylendonker Hof in Limperich. In her lecture, Katrin Heitmann M.A., a graduate art historian from Bad Honnef, traces this history of "great art in a small garden".

The material for this is taken from her dissertation at Bonn University, in which she investigates the whereabouts of the former furnishings of the former monastery church of Heisterbach.

Picture above left: Construction of the Foveau cottage, view from the Ennert to the south, lithograph by an unknown painter.

Parking:

Arrival by car:

• Parking is available a few metres away on the village square (Kirchstraße, opposite "Kleine[n] Bäckerei") or on Hangstraße next to the church in the direction of the cemetery.
• You can park bicycles in the courtyard of the parish hall

Arrival/departure by public transport:

• Take tram 62 to the Schießbergweg stop, then walk for approx. 7 min.
• Take bus line 636 to the "Küdinghoven Kirche" stop, then approx. 2 min on foot.
• With the night bus line N8 from the bus stop "Küdinghoven Kirche".

Image rights: GA Bonn, Ursula Becker

TUESDAY, 30.05.2023: STROOFKOLLEG -> VILICHER HISTORY IN DIALOGUE

The Vilich Citizens' Association has recently published a book on the history of Vilich. The author is Ursula Becker: "The historical Vilich. The collegiate church and the historic site". (155 p., richly illustrated - €19.80).

This is an occasion for the Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch Monument and History Society to take a closer look at the important local and territorial history of Vilich at its regular StroofKollegs - every last Tuesday of the month.

He has invited the author to a professional dialogue with the association's chairman Carl J. Bachem. It will be moderated by the new deputy chairperson of the association, Claudia Knöfel.

If you have questions on your mind that you have always wanted to ask in this regard, then this is the event for you!

The public event is on

Whit Tuesday, 30 May 2023, at 19.30 h in the Mayor Stroof House

At the end, as usual, there will be an invitation "for a glass of wine"! As always, admission is free; donations for the purposes of the association are welcomed.

Image rights: GA Bonn, Ursula Becker

TUESDAY, 28 March 2023: StroofKOLLEG

StroofKOLLEG February

Tuesday, 28.2.2023, 19.30 h Lede Castle (Vilich, An der Burg Lede 1)

"Tring, Sting on Dröck heeße all ärm Löck - Die schönsten Rheinischen Redensarten und was sie bedeuten."

Jörg Manhold speaks and sings (with accordion) about the Rhenish way of life and the lovable homeland around Cologne and Bonn.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2023: StroofKOLLEG

StroofKOLLEG January

Tuesday, 31.1.2023, 19.30 h Mayor Stroof House

Barbara Brockmeier: "The Bonn artist Pitt Müller and his time in Vilich".

Picture credits: Benjamin Westhoff, General-Anzeiger Bonn

BOOK AND PICTURE SALES EXTENDED UNTIL 23.12.2022

Antiquarian book and picture market in the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus - after-sale until 23.12.2022 Fridays and Sundays from 3 to 6 p.m.

This year's antiquarian book and picture market initiated by the Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch Monument and History Society was a very great success.

Numerous visitors interested in history and art found their way to the Vilicher Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus to purchase historical books, lithographs, oil paintings and watercolours.

Stone-printed pictures showing scenes from the romantic Rhine Valley were particularly popular. But also those with motifs from the local districts of Beuel were extremely popular.

The chairman of the association, Carl J. Bachem, was extremely pleased with the financial success: "In times of high gas and electricity prices, every euro is of course welcome to us. The proceeds will be used to finance the increased instalment payments from the energy suppliers."

Those who are still looking for Christmas presents or want to give themselves a treat: The real bargains can still be purchased until 23 December. Until then, there will be a post-sale in Vilich, Adelheidisstraße 3, on Fridays and Sundays from 3 to 6 pm.

SATURDAY, 19.11.2022 AT 15:00: CULTURAL-HISTORICAL TOUR OF THE BEUEL CEMETERY ON PLATANENWEG

Warm invitation!

At

Saturday, 19.11.2022 at 3:00 pm

The Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch Monuments and History Society offers

a Cultural-historical tour of the Beuel cemetery on Platanenweg an.

The speaker will be Dr Dagmar Hänel, who will explain the special features of the cemetery, which include not only the widely known Sinti and Roma graves.

Meeting point is the old  Main entrance on Platanenweg.

From the Shell petrol station, the road axis leads up a slight incline, at the end of which is the gate.

Admission is free, but donations are requested.

The subsequent social evening will take place in the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus, Adelheidisstraße 3 in Beuel-Vilich.

As the number of participants is limited, please register by mail.

Image: Wikipedia

THE BEUEL PAINTER HELMUT DEGENHARDT AND THE TORCHES OF THE VILICHER ADELHEIDIS SCHOOL CHILDREN

at the Mayor Stroof House
Adelheidisstr. 3
53225 Bonn-Vilich

Vernissage: Friday, 11.11.2022 at 7.00 p.m.

Introductory lecture: Dr. Sylva Harst

open daily from 5pm - 7pm

Finissage: Sunday, 20.11.2022 at 17.00

Guided tours for school classes are available on request.
Contact: denkmalverein.bonn@t-online.de

The Beuel painter and graphic artist Helmut Degenhardt (1924 - 2002) was an exceptional artist. Severely handicapped from birth by spastic paralysis, he initially took painting and drawing lessons with Theodor Pape, a private lecturer in Bonn, and from 1943 to 1946 he studied glass painting, among other things, at the Cologne Art Academy. His breakthrough came in 1950, when the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Bonner Kunsterzieher" (Working Group of Art Teachers in Bonn) exhibited twelve of his watercolours showing children in a (Beuel) St. Martin's procession. Later, this cycle was published by the city of Bonn and used as a representative gift.

Although he also drew protraits and continued to paint watercolours, his artistic love was stained glass. In close collaboration with the Derix glass workshop, he creates stained glass windows for the parishes of St. Michael (Weststadt), St. Maria-Magdalena (Endenich), St. Maria-Königin (St. Augustin) and St. Benediktus (Düsseldorf-Heerdt) according to his strict specifications. He also designed the stained glass windows of the Anne Frank secondary school in Vilich.

Since he is not only dependent on the support and care of his parents as an artist, it is a bitter blow for him when his mother dies in 1970 and his father twelve years later. It meant the end of his artistic career. He died on 4 October 2002.

The exhibition presents his twelve-part Martin cycle in Vilich's Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus and is accompanied by the torches of Vilich's Adelheidis School children, who are invited to collect them again in a small ceremony on 20 November.

StroofKOLLEG on Tour to historic Küdinghoven

Only very few people know that the oldest towers in Bonn are in Beuel. The residential towers of the castles of Limperich, Vilich (Lede) and Rheindorf (Wolfsburg) date back to the Middle Ages, the Möllestomp on the Limperich bank of the Rhine perhaps even to Roman times. The most interesting of all, however, is probably the church tower of Küdinghoven, about 1000 years old.

With its hidden staircase, it is an absolute rarity. Initially the population's refuge and defence tower, it was also the place where the Bergische Unterherrschaft Küdinghoven kept its records until secularisation. This church tower, all the way up to the belfry, is the goal of the StroofKOLLEG of the Denkmal- und Geschichtsverein Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e.V. (Bonn Historical Society).

At the same time, of course, the church itself will be visited, one of the very few classicist longhouses in our region, and the neighbouring grave cross garden, which preserves the historic stone crosses of the 17th and 18th centuries, including plague crosses from 1666. Finally, the painter Leo Breuer from Bonn will be remembered, whose grave in the Küdinghoven churchyard has been elevated to a municipal grave of honour on the initiative of the monument association. Recently, the association presented an exhibition of paintings by this important constructivist in its Mayor Stroof House.

The event at Saturday, 8 October 2022, is under the direction of Carl J. Bachem and Johannes Junglas. It starts at 15.00. There is no cost; a donation for the upkeep of the Stroof House is requested. Registration is not necessary.

Image: Wikipedia

Guided tour "VILICH TREASURES" on Open Monument Day, Sunday, 11 September 2022

The listed churchyard at St. Peter's was laid out in the Middle Ages and was for centuries the burial place of the formerly large parish of Vilich, which also included places such as Beuel, Rheindorf, Geislar, Pützchen and Holzlar, and thus practically the entire northern half of today's Bonn district of Beuel.

On the Day of the Open Monument, 240 stone grave crosses in particular, in keeping with the motto of the day, invite visitors to search for "traces of culture" dating back to the late Gothic period.

A remarkably high number. Probably the oldest, on which a date can still be clearly seen, dates from 1580. This unusual cultural treasure has long been abandoned to decay; after years of effort, the first signs of rescue are now coming into view.

Carl J. Bachem, Chairman of the Denkmal- und Geschichtsverein Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e. V., will report on this and present selected grave crosses as well as the gravesites of important Vilich families.

Guided tour by: Carl Jakob Bachem

Leadership 1:
Date/Time: Sunday, 11/09/2022, 13:00
Meeting point: Vilich, Kirchplatz Adelheidisstraße 8, Bonn (53225)

Leadership 2:
Date/Time: Sunday, 11/09/2022, 17:00
Meeting point: Vilich, Kirchplatz Adelheidisstraße 8, Bonn (53225)

Leo Breuer exhibition extended until 07 August

The picture exhibition of Leo Breuer, the internationally important Constructivist, in the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus is being extended by two weeks - until 7 August 2022 - due to its surprisingly great response.

As before, it is open on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 3 to 6 pm. At the same time, it is possible to visit the museum memorial, the first official residence in Bonn on the right bank of the Rhine.

Admission is free; a donation towards the upkeep of the house is appreciated. Constructivist of international standing, Breuer (1993-1975) had his studios in Paris, but at the same time also here in Bonn, more precisely in Beuel.

His gravesite is located in the mountain cemetery in Küdinghoven and has been elevated to the status of a municipal grave of honour on the initiative of the Bonn-Rrh Monuments and History Society.

The exhibition in the Stroof House focuses on constructivist works, but also allows an insight into the oeuvre as a whole.

1,000 years of history in Pützchen. The old and the new monuments

Everyone should know Pützchen's market. But what about the historical monuments that give it its justification? For 1000 years, the Pütz, the "Brünnchen" that gives it its name, has been gushing. Since the Baroque era, impressive buildings have been standing there, and in recent times they have been surrounded by "modern architecture"...

This is the aim of an extensive exploration of our association on the

Saturday 18 June 2022, meeting at 15:00 at the Brünnchen

Afterwards (from approx. 17 h) a convivial evening in the restaurant "Klosterpforte".

We ask for your (initially non-binding) pre-registration: Please call 0228 / 422 14 664 (TAB) or mail: denkmalverein.bonn@t-online. en

You are very welcome to join us! Why not bring your friends too!

Exhibition at the Mayor Stroof House from 23 June to 17 July 2022

The Monument and History Society will be exhibiting in the period from

23 June 2022 to 17 July 2022 at the Mayor Stroof House

Works by the painter Leo Breuer. The Parisian constructivist was born in Bonn in 1893, worked in Paris and died in Küdinghoven in 1975.

The vernissage will take place on Thursday 23 June 2022 at 6:00 pm in the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus (Adelheidisstraße 3, 53225 Bonn-Vilich) under the direction of the art historian Dr. Uelsberg.

Opening hours of the exhibition: Wed/Fri/Sun 15:00 -18:00 and by appointment: 0228 474508