This imposing, former industrial villa in the middle of a spacious park offers stately rooms on four floors in a central location in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.
A tasteful combination of representative architecture, historical design elements, high-quality materials and modern furnishings combine sophisticated living and stylish representation.
The listed and partially renovated villa comprises a total of eight bedrooms and seven bathrooms, an impressive reception hall, stately living rooms, including an oval salon and a library room, a dining room, high-quality kitchen rooms including a fitted kitchen and house bar, various reception rooms, a conservatory, various work and utility rooms, a spacious dance hall with bar, two balcony terraces and an exposed terrace area of approx. 160 m² with park access.
While the Beletage with its halls, cosy lounge rooms and its magnificent terrace including a floor window with a view into the large dance hall in the basement is currently designed for first-class receptions and festivities, three spacious residential suites and a hotel room have been created on the upper floor. In the attic there are additionally two separate residential units as well as an attic converted into a studio.
On the one hand, the property is predestined for private use as a unique residence for the upscale extended family, including the accommodation of staff and guests.The multitude of impressive rooms, the exclusive indoor and outdoor living areas, the historic charm with modern furnishings, the generously thought-out and variable division of the floors with connecting doors and separate entrances, as well as the possibilities for hosting impressive festive occasions, make the property an elegant private residence of the highest standard.
On the other hand, there is also the possibility of taking over the commercial use concept as an exclusive hotel and event location with attractive returns in a central location of the largest conurbation in the country.
The property with a total area of 3,136 m² includes a building plot of approx. 997 m², on which, according to the available documents, an additional two-storey residential building with underground garage can be erected.
All in all, an extravagant property with history, style and class, which makes every effort to meet the demands of your international, sophisticated lifestyle and at the same time offers valuable, variable use potential.
It would be a pleasure to provide you with further details on this special property and the location as well as the possible usage concepts in the course of a personal communication.
- Historic preservation
- Stucco ceilings
- Herringbone parquet / Marble & granite floors
- Windows with glazing bars
- Elegant country style kitchen with cooking island & house bar
- Oval salon room
- Conservatory with park view
- Ballroom with bar
- Terrace complex with park access
- Park incl. building plot
History & Historic Preservation
The property was commissioned by an industrialist and was probably completed in the early 1920s as a factory owner‘s villa in a very representative style.
After the Second World War, the villa with its stately rooms was used as an officers‘ mess for the British Army of the Rhine.
The Officers‘ Mess served as an event venue for the officers of the British armed forces both during the week and at weekends. The officers held receptions and celebrations in the prestigious rooms and on the terrace.
They belonged to the REME (Royal Electric and Mechanic Engineer), a base workshop of the British armed forces in which mainly tanks were repaired and maintained.
Visitors from Great Britain stayed overnight on the upper floors. The villa always served as a social centre.
Not until the withdrawal of the British Rhine Army did the property return to private ownership and, after several transfers of ownership, was most recently used by private investors as an exclusive hotel with an event location.
The quality of the design, the order in measurement and function as well as the appearance of the villa as a contemporary witness of a 1920s mindset prompted the registration of the listed building, encompassing the interior and exterior of the building, in the 1990s.
Accordingly, the terrace complex was also planned as part of a reconstruction in accordance with the requirements of a listed building, but in consultation with the Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments, realised in a manner that was more in keeping with the spirit of the times.
