Since 1955, the building ruins with the originally wonderful view of the Eifler hills have been falling into disrepair. The locals call it Villa Adenauer or Camp Konrad, because the planned villa was intended to be a gift from the then CEO of AEG, Friedrich Spennrath, to the first Chancellor of the young Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer. Why not a Camp Konrad at the heights of the Eifel, when the US President can also relax in his Camp David on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the US state of Maryland?
But Adenauer refused ... and thereby avoided a corruption scandal at the last second, for example when it became known that the building plans came from his son-in-law, the architect Heribert Multhaupt, who had married Adenauer's daughter Chalotte in 1954. This circumstance in itself was a target for the GDR Ulbricht regime, which used this circumstance to denounce the fact that politics and industry were intertwined in the West.
But, all's well that ends well, at least for Adenauer - just not for the villa, which, as an unused ruin for almost 70 years, can only show one highlight, namely in the crime thriller Eifel-Jagd by Michael Preute.
The pictures show some external views of the ruins. More information about this interesting lost place can be found in the book by Heike Pander, Lost & Dark Places Eifel, 2023 Bruckmann Verlag GmbH, Munich, ISBN: 978-3-7343-2473-4
