Rolandseck station
- Left Rhine line ( KBS 470)
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The railway station Rolandsecks in Rolandseck at Remagen was built from 1856 to 1858. His reception building is considered as an important cultural monument of the Rhenish art history and of early German railway construction.
2004 the station was reopened after a temporary closure again as a stop on the rail passenger transport, it is the most northerly on the left Rhine route in Rhineland -Palatinate.
Since 29 September 2007, the station building is part of the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck. Directly below the railway station is the ferry boat to Bad Honnef.
History
The Bonn- Cölner Railway opened on 13 February 1844, the route from Cologne to Bonn, later part of the Rhine's left track. In 1846, the Company had in Berlin sought to be allowed to expand the range to Rolandseck. The Finance Ministry had rejected the request for military reasons. Finally, in 1853 the provisional approval for continued construction of the line to Rolandseck was left by " Most High Cabinets Ordre ". The new end point should be as close to the Rhine, to allow convenient connections to the steam ships. The chief engineer for the construction of the line also produced the plans for the railway station Rolandsecks. The endpoint of the line, the building was designed so that you could carry out the Corporate Assembly in him. Because Rolandseck was at this time with the legendary Roland Werther Rolandsbogen an epitome Rhine Romanticism. The construction began in 1856 and the station was completed in 1858.
The railway station Rolandsecks became the meeting place of the prominent company that moved here from the terminus of the private car to the Rhine or the coach. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Otto von Bismarck, Ludwig Uhland, Karl Simrock, the Brothers Grimm and Friedrich Nietzsche were there, also the musician Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt. Bernard Shaw wrote about the station and Guillaume Apollinaire wrote a portion of his early poems. There were many festivals and concerts in the old railway station.
Studio for artists
After the Second World War, the station was no longer farmed. In 1958, the President of the Railway Board Mainz decided to demolish the " oversized " rooms and for that to build a small reception building. However, the demolition shifted, and 1964 Wasmuth occurred and had a plan to use the station as a home, gallery and studio for artists. In a short time the station was a center of cultural life. The name Hans Arp, Oskar Kokoschka, Bruno Goller, Günther Uecker, Graubner, Stefan Askenase, Yehudi Menuhin, Hans Richter, Martha Argerich, Martin Walser and Marcel Marceau are representative of many others. In 1966, here the artist group ZERO dissolved solemnly.
After the death of John Wasmuth once ended the cultural life of the station.
Arp Museum
After extensive renovation and restoration work from 2001, the station was reopened on 22 October 2004.
The station building could not be returned to its original state due to structural measures at the beginning of the 20th century. The renovation measures oriented to it, the structural condition from 1906 with veranda and pale green stone paint to restore it. The whitewashed ceiling in the ballroom were exposed so that the stucco can be seen again.
The basement is now the entry level dar. base and ground floor serve as exhibit space. The ballroom on the second floor with an outdoor terrace and views of the Rhine and the Seven Mountains with the Drachenfels is now a museum cafe and bistro.
A special feature of the building is the design of its functional spaces by contemporary artists. Building on a well-founded by John Wasmuth tradition, who had imagined with colorful ironic quotations from art history, the sanitary facilities of the station and Bistro by the British painter Stephen McKenna, other function rooms with the participation of artists were equipped in the course of conversion: The Infirmary by Maria Nordman, the bistro by Anton Henning, the library by the Swiss Thomas Huber, and the helipad of the museum was created as part of the Ingold Airlines project by Res Ingold.
View from the outside into the basement with works by Hans Arp - Spring 2007
Banquet hall
Arp: Moving Tanzgeschmeide, sculpture outside the museum
Arp Museum in a southwesterly direction
Sculptures shore
Since 2000, the Arp Museum in collaboration with the city of Remagen, the " sculptures shore Remagen " along the banks of the Rhine between Rolandswerth, past the railway station Rolandsecks, up to Remagen.