Adam Stegerwald House

The Adam-Stegerwald-Haus is a former conference centre in Königswinter, a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the main street in the south of the old town and is a listed building.
The Adam Stegerwald House goes back to a villa of the Barmen Kommerzienrat Philipp II Barthels from the early 20th century, which was built according to a design by the Honnef architect Ottomar Stein. In 1924, Jakob Kaiser, a politician of the Centre Party, acquired it for the Catholic social association Arbeiterwohl as a conference centre and as a mother-and-child recreation home. In 1927/28, the villa was extended by an extension by demolishing existing buildings. In 1930/31, the "Königswinterer Kreis" was founded here as an association of Catholic social ethicists and social scientists, which worked out a socio-political concept for political Catholicism in Germany. During the National Socialist era, the property was confiscated from May 1933 for the German Labor Front and served under the name Robert-Ley-Schule as one of initially two Prussian state leadership schools, which was responsible for 16 districts in the west of the German Reich. Its ceremonial inauguration took place on 24 July 1933 in the presence of DAF leader Robert Ley, and from the beginning of 1935 it bore the name "Reichsschulungsburg" and was increasingly used as a pure Gauführer school of the DAF. With a capacity of 75 participants, the house had a reading room, library and smoking room in addition to the classrooms and meeting rooms; the rooms were comparable to a first-class hotel in terms of their facilities. In 1937, a second state guide school, the Hotel Mattern, was added in Königswinter.

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