Julie Deichmann, née vom Rath (1828-1904)

Julie Deichmann and her husband, the Cologne banker Wilhelm Adolph Deichmann (1811-1882), had a little home-made small palace, “Villa Rolandshöhe” or “Villa Deichmann”, near Remagen (borough of Rolandseck), where they spent the summers. Clara Schumann was a frequent guest at the villa, which gives a beautiful view of the Rhine with the island of Nonnenwerth, the ruins of Rolandsbogen Castle and the Siebengebirge hill range with the Drachenfels hill (“Dragon’s Hill”) in the background still today. She also gave piano lessons to the daughters and visited Julie Deichmann in Cologne. In 1882, she noted in her diary that she met her “[so kind and good as always.]”. Villa Deichmann was not far away from the meadows of Mehlem (district of the borough of Bonn-Bad Godesberg) and was located only in the autumn of 2001, thanks to the intensive research of Ingrid Bodsch and the municipal archivist Kurt Kleemann.

Adolph Deichmann’s older brother Wilhelm Ludwig (1798-1876), also a banker, lived in the meadows of Mehlem with his wife Elisabeth Jacobine Lenore, née Schaaffhausen (1811-1888), called Lilla. Clara Schumann was also friends with Lilla and Ludwig Deichmann. In the summer of 1853, the young Johannes Brahms had been a guest in the meadows of Mehlem before going to Düsseldorf where he called on Robert and Clara Schumann. Even later, Brahms and Clara Schumann were welcome guests at the house of the Deichmanns. A former pupil of Clara, Marie von Lindeman, tried to introduce Clara to Lilla Deichmann as a piano teacher, but the job did not materialise.

(J.M.N., translated by Th. H.)

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