UPCOMING EVENTS
On this page we inform you about events that are either organised by the Denkmal- und Geschichtsverein Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e.V. or that the association would like to point out.
NEW DATE
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.
MONDAY, 03.04.2023 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.
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More information about the Beueler Zentralstelle für Familienforschung
TUESDAY 25 APRIL 2023: GENERAL MEETING
GENERAL MEETING
Tuesday, 25 April 2023, 6.00 p.m. - Parish Hall St. Josef Beuel, Joh.-Link-Straße / corner An St. Josef
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CANCELLED: Due to Corona illness of the speaker, the event is cancelled
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 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.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 04, 2023: HANDS-ON TOUR OF THE COMBAHN DISTRICT
One of the politically topical issues at the moment is the statute on listed buildings for the Combahn district of Beuel. The council has decided to draw it up. And now the draft will be presented to the citizens during the whole of February, who can make suggestions and express concerns that will ultimately be taken into account in the political decision-making process.
The draft of the statute itself, with a lot of textual and pictorial material, as well as the expert opinion on the technical justification, can be publicly viewed in the Bonn Council and Information System via www.bonn.de. In order to enable citizens who are not able to use the digital system to participate accordingly, the Bonn-Rrh Monument and History Society has made all the relevant documents available for everyone to view free of charge in its Mayor Stroof House in Vilich; the house is regularly open on Fridays and Sundays from 3 to 6 pm.
After the municipal monument authority presented the project to the public on 24 January in Beuel's town hall, what is still missing is a practical demonstration. To this end, the Denkmalverein and the citizens' initiative Combahnviertel Linneman, whose joint initiative, as is well known, is to thank for this protection statute in the first place, invite you to a practical tour of the Combahnviertel.
This will be technically supported by Dr. Elke Janssen-Schnabel, the expert of the monument authority of the Landschaftsverband (Brauweiler), who has provided the entire scientific basis for these statutes. The event is scheduled for the coming
Saturday, 4 February 2023, starting at 3 p.m. at the forecourt of the town hall, Friedrich-Breuer-Straße 56
It ends at around 4.30 p.m. at the Bröltal railway station. Participation is free of charge. Pre-registration is not necessary, but the organisers reserve the right to repeat the tour if the number of participants is too great.
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
24 JANUARY 2023 IN BEUELER RATHAUS: DISCLOSURE OF THE COMBAHN BYLAWS. INFORMATION EVENT
The statute for the listed area of the Combahn district in Beuel, which was obtained by our association in cooperation with the Combahn Initiative (W. Linnemann), is ready for public submission.
This will take place in the period from 1 February to 1 March 2023 in the Beuel City Hall as well as in the Bonn City Hall.
In addition, on
Tuesday, 24 January 2023 at Beuel City Hall
an information event will be held by the administration. Our association is also planning a guided tour of the Combahn district at the beginning of February; more information will be provided later.
Invitation of the administration to the information event as pdf
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.
BOOK AND PICTURE SALE IN THE MAYOR STROOF HOUSE
At
Sunday, 04.12.2022 from 12:00 h to 18:00 h
the Monument and History Society offers a book and picture sale in its Mayor Stroof House in Vilich.
While there is "Advent hustle and bustle" at the neighbouring Lede Castle, he evokes history: he opens his antiquarian bookshop with books on the history of Bonn and the region, second-hand as well as hot-off-the-press literature, and a colourful mixture from lithos on Rhine Romanticism to "modern" oil and watercolour.
The museum is also open from 12 to 18, admission is free.
The income is intended to cover the museum's greatly increased operating costs.
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
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EVERY 1ST MONDAY 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 1st Monday of the month at the "Central Office for Beuel Family Research" in the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus.
Waltraud Boß, genealogist and author of various family books from the region, will answer your questions.
Participation is free of charge, but donations are welcome. Please register by email so that Ms. Boß can prepare for your questions.
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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.
Figure: Charles II, the last Habsburg ruler, who will be discussed in the lecture.
LECTURE: CURIOSITIES FROM FAMILY RESEARCH
At Tuesday, 27.09.2022 at 7:30 pm the genealogist Waltraud Boß gives a lecture in the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus on the subject of Curiosities from family research.
Visitors can expect a short excursion into the genealogical cabinet of curiosities: funny, sad and also scary incidents in family research. The duration of the contract is about one hour.
ATTENTION: The maximum number of 20 participants has been reached, registration is no longer possible.
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.
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"The History of the Mayor Stroof House" on Open Monument Day, Sunday, 11 September 2022.
The Mayor Stroof House. The architectural origins of the listed Mayor Stroof House are still unclear. Recently, however, the Denkmal- und Geschichtsverein Bonn-Rechtsheinisch e. V., which runs the 300-year-old half-timbered house as a museum commemorating the municipal beginnings of the borough of Beuel, seems to be on the right track.
This "KulturSpur" leads to the neighbouring Lede Castle, which once had its well house here at the edge of the park, perhaps even a medieval residential tower.
Saved from demolition by the association, the historical and architectural monument has revealed many traces of its history during its extensive restoration. Visitors are made aware of this during the guided tour.
Place: Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus, Vilich, Adelheidisstraße 3, Bonn (53225)
Guided tours on demand - Refreshments in the monument courtyard - Info sheet
Opening hours: Sunday, 11.09.2022 from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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)
Picture: Grave cross of the Bleibtreu family at the Old Protestant Cemetery in Holzlar
The Old Cemetery in Holzlar
Excursion "History after hours" on
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 5 pm
What many people do not know: Holzlar is home to one of the oldest cemeteries in the Rhineland, far older than the Old Cemetery in Bonn, for example.
It goes back to Protestant roots, which were able to survive there "in the hidden hinterland" despite the Counter-Reformation. Because they were not tolerated in the surrounding Catholic cemeteries, two Holzlar families had themselves buried in their own garden.
This is the beginning, it was in 1658. The cemetery received a new boost at the beginning of the 19th century, when the factory owner Bleibtreu brought Protestant specialists from Hesse for his alum production, for whom there was also no burial place.
He then also made the cemetery the burial place for himself and his family. Of lasting importance both historically and in terms of art history, the cemetery is of course a listed building.
Dr. Friedrich Gebhardt, who has been looking after this gem for years, will lead a guided tour on behalf of the Bonn-Rrh. monument and history association.
The Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch Monument and History Society invites you to this event as part of its public event series "History after hours" at the
next Tuesday, 2 August 2022 , at 5.00 p.m.
on.
The event is free of charge; a donation for the upkeep of the Mayor Stroof House is appreciated. The short pedestrian access route leaves from the main road opposite Primrose Way.
The Waldcafé is reserved for a convivial evening.
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.
Image: Kuladig
Guided tour of the Vilich monument site
Historic Vilich is full of architectural monuments, which the Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch Monument and History Society naturally has a special eye on.
At
Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 2:30 pm
he invites you to another tour, which starts at 2.30 pm at the church, Adelheidisstraße 8, and ends about two hours later at the museum Mayor Stroof House.
The painter Leo Breuer exhibition can also be visited there at the moment (except on Sundays, also on Wednesdays and Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m.). The path through the village with a visit to the church and cemetery and a view of Lede Castle is just under 500 metres long.
A special emphasis is placed on the unusual collection of grave crosses from the late Gothic period to the beginning of the 18th century, which is currently the focus of official monument preservation.
At the same time, the monument preservation problems caused by the current provisional new school buildings in front of the 800-year-old immunity wall will be discussed. The tour will be led by the association's chairman Carl J. Bachem.
The event is free of charge; a donation for the association's tasks is requested. The number of participants is limited to 25.
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!
Coffee party with Mrs. Mayor
The Monument and History Society regularly organises a Coffee party with Mrs. Mayor a meeting with coffee and cake in the idyllic courtyard of the Bürgermeister-Stroof-Haus.
The events will kick off on
Sunday, 19 June 2022 at 4:00 pm
The Coffee party with Mrs. Mayor takes place regularly every third Sunday of the month.
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