Hohenhof

The Hohenhof in Hagen- Emst was in the 20th century apartment building, work of art, the hub of a European cultural network. The house was built in 1906-1908, designed by Henry van de Velde for Karl Ernst Osthaus within the garden city Hohenhagen. It is now next to the art district one of the sites of the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum of the City of Hagen.

In the industrial town of Hagen at the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area of art patron Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874-1921) tried at the beginning of the 20th century, with its Folkwang thoughts art and life together. In his hometown Osthaus was a museum of world cultures build, as well as a German Museum of Art in trade and commerce. He founded the Folkwang -Verlag.

He also initiated the designed by internationally renowned artists build a housing estate, a garden city project, and suggestions for a general development plan for the Rhine-Westphalian industrial area.

Two buildings have been preserved in Hagen, who were also for Osthaus personal domicile and place of work: his museum and his house, both designed by Henry van de Velde.

In 1920, a collection started by Osthaus reform school was located temporarily in a part of the High Court, which, however, was only one year. From 1924 to 1930 in the premises of the High Court's hand weaving Hohenhagen was housed. Eberhard Osthaus and the couple Horst and Evangeline Helbing built this hand-weaving of a thriving company. 1930 left hand weaving and Hagen moved to Bremen. The name " hand weaving Hohenhagen " was retained there until its closure in 1965. In 1927 the family sold the building and land to the city of Hagen, with the condition to get the plant as a " total work of art ". 1933, the City of the Hohenhof the Nazi Party to establish a Gauverwalter school. End of the war it was used as a hospital, from 1946 to 1962 he served as a women's clinic. From 1963 to 1976, the Hohenhof was the seat of the Pedagogical University Hagen, until it was merged with other universities in the Ruhr College of Education, based in Dortmund. After extensive renovation, the Hohenhof has since been open to the public as an architectural work of art.

The Hohenhof is the anchor point of the Route of Industrial Heritage in the Ruhr.

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