A major entrepreneur from the greater Cologne area has been awarded the contract for the purchase of the ruins of the "Adenauer Villa" in the Eifel. He had the last highest bid of 35,000 euros slightly outbid, said previous owner Lissa Ilse Thurner in North Rhine-Westphalia Solingen.

It is the ruin of a property that was once used by Konrad Adenauer as a hunting, weekend and guest house in a wooded area near Duppach (Rhineland-Palatinate). Business representatives wanted to give Adenauer in the fifties with the villa. But it quickly came to speculation about possible about Klüngeleien between business and politics. The construction was stopped, Adenauer did not accept the gift. (Read more about the backgrounds here.)

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The buyer of the property, which has a total area of ​​2000 square meters, did not want to be named, said Thurner after the end of the private auction. She could only say so much: "He is a big Adenauer fan." She was glad that the property got into good hands.

Thurner said that bidders had very different ideas about the use of the site: from the hunting lodge to a place to paint up to a reconstruction for traumatized firefighters and police officers. The plans of the buyer are not known to her.