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On this postcard from 1905 the Villa Billa in Bonn Südstadt in Weberstraße No. 49, which appears in its appearance at that time – is shown on the back right. B. in the ornaments above the windows – great resemblance to the lower neighboring house No. 47 in front. Villa Billa was demolished in 1938.
Former Römerplatz (later renamed Remigiusplatz) in 1939. In the area covered by the exhibition pavilion, Sibilla Schmitz in 1900 had her shop in Haus Römerplatz No. 6, which later started the new Blömerhaus.

Villa Billa is a Schunkel waltz in Cologne’s dialect of the Cologne composer Willi Ostermann. The song tells of the sudden wealth of the Bonn market woman Sibilla Schmitz (Schmitze Billa) . The play was released in 1913 and is still a classic in the carnival – also interpreted by the Bläck Fööss group. [first]

For a long time, the historians moved the question of where the Villa Billa stood in Bonn-Poppelsdorf and how the “Schmitze Billa” could have come to the sudden blessing of money and the villa. Undoubtedly, according to the biographers, Ostermann used experiences and events made in everyday life to process them in his songs, so that one could rightly assume that there is also a real core in the Villa-Billa waltz. Reinold Louis gives a small hint in his book published in 1986 Cologne song treasure , in which it is said that Ostermann had brought what was “behind the hollow hand” at the time. According to this, a “highly born” from Hohenzollern had a “malörchen” (love affair with consequences) with the Billa Schmitz, which he wanted to forget with those 25,000 marks mentioned in the song. [2]

When researching the book Rhenish underworld the author Udo found citizens from Remagen in the Cologne court newspaper From April 14, 1906 an article that gives more details. The article reports on a much -visited negotiation from the Bonn Criminal Chamber, which had taken place a few days earlier. The curiosity was probably so great because the two accused women had previously caused a stir in Bonn. It was Sibilla Schmitz, who was already generally known at the time under the name “Et Schmitzen Billa”, and her daughter Else (Elsa). [3]

Sibilla Henriette Francisca Maria Schmitz was a native of Bonn. On February 17, 1852, she was born on February 17, 1852 on Bahnhof 1 at the then street at Bahnhof. [4]

The fact that Louis was not so wrong with his hint of a love affair of Sibilla Schmitz with a “highly well -born” shows that Else Schmitz, born on February 28, 1882, an illegitimate daughter of Ulrich von Schack (1853–1923 , lived in St. Goar for a long time). Although this was married to Sibilla Schmitz, who was three years younger, Gertrud Schmitz, was married, but also had a relationship with Sibilla from which the child Elese emerged. (A son of Count, Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack, later became known as a resistance fighter at the uprising of July 20, 1944 against Hitler). [5]

Else Schmitz was charged in the court hearing that, led by a false name, namely as a countess of Schack, and under the pretense of false facts in several cases, money and goods with a total value of more than 210,000 marks. Her mother was charged with the aid for this fraud and the coupling. [6]

In 1896 Sibilla Schmitz founded a small butter, egg and cheese business in Bonn, which she operated with her daughter Else, but had to give up in 1900 (in the song Ostermanns there is talk of Sibilla Schmitz on the market ). They moved their business several times within these few years (market bridge No. 5, Römerplatz No. 5 and Römerplatz No. 6). At that time, Sibilla Schmitz lived in Fürstenstraße (No. 4), in 1901 she moved to Bachstrasse (No. 28) and in early 1902 to Kaiserstrasse (No. 3). [7]

A year later, she moved to the house with her daughter, which became known as the “Villa Billa”. The later demolished house in the start -up style was located in Weberstraße No. 49: So the “Villa Billa” was not in Poppelsdorf, but in the southern city. Sibilla Schmitz rented the house with the intention of “renting furnished rooms to distinguished men”. In connection with the indictment of the coupling, this indicates the purpose for which these rooms could have served. It should be noted that Sibilla Schmitz did not buy the villa on Weberstrasse, as can be seen from the text of Ostermann, but only rented. [8]

In order to get the business going properly, the rooms should be equipped “quite luxurious”. For this purpose, daughter Else went to the commercial building of a Bonn furniture retailer in a cheek and introduced herself as Countess Else von Schack. She paid for your invoice for a few hundred marks within a short period of time in cash. A few days later, the “pretty young, young countess” car again held at the door of the furniture store. Now the merchant was commissioned to equip several rooms on Weberstrasse for approximately 30,000 marks that he never got. In this way, Else Schmitz not only bruised another supplier (again around 30,000 marks), but also other business people and craftsmen almost all industries. These and other complained funds were “carelessly cheered and the rest used to pay smaller debts with the greatest part of the two women with the devilish intent to make larger people”.

Many bonners were a mystery that the former cheese sellers could quickly become rich women. Ostermann is also surprised in his song how “the Minsch can change” overnight. Not long after the butter, egg and cheese shop was closed, you could see “the Else Schmitz sit in her own team like a countess dressed in her own equipment and yourself. In Weberstrasse, she lived with her mother a stately house that was equipped for the most luxurious. ” [9]

The prosecutor requested three years in prison against Else Schmitz and her mother. The court was somewhat more gracious in his judgment of April 10, 1906: Else Schmitz received 16 months in prison with the calculation of four months, her mother got away with two months in prison. After serving her punishment in Cologne, Sibilla Schmitz stayed in Roisdorf, in 1907 she and her daughter moved to Nideggen. While Sibilla Schmitz was located in Buschdorf from August 1908, her daughter went on a trip at the beginning of 1908 and was found in Renens and Lausanne, in 1912 in Pfaffendorf in the city district of Koblenz. [ten]

Although Ostermann only released the song years later, the idea of ​​this was obvious in those years around 1901 to 1905, when the life of the “Schmitze Billa” had taken such a rapid turn and her villa had become a fidel meeting point. The end of the end – perhaps in knowledge of the process – indicated by warning in the last stanza that the lifestyle of the “Schmitze Billa” could not be long -lasted and that she could be forced to earn her money back on the market.

The villa was demolished in 1938 and replaced by today’s Haus Weberstraße No. 49, which no longer has a Wilhelminian style facade. The house number has not changed over the decades, as the Bonn address books show. On a postcard from 1905 you can see that the villa was very similar to the neighboring house No. 47 (both houses were also managed as a unit in the address books around 1914 to 1922), which still exists today and suggests the impressive start -up architecture the ” Schmitz Billa ”received her guests. [11]

Twenty -twenty -the -five = 150. crop it BILLA smitz
paid op a bang (“the suggestive verb” pop “), and what do you mean Jitz?
Eeztens jov et bell om Maat on his shop,
compensate Wood a doll’s deeper ( The Bonn district includes the suggestive verb: “poppen”) en huus jeuf.
What hip-deedag nit ÜVERVER NOW ( in a love night) the minch can change.

Jetz could that embarrassment BILLA
In Poppelsdorf in Villa.
It would be a bijen husband, the bell es fine erus!

Janz Jenau the villa it like e redschildhuus,
just dat s nit jrad su jroß and su sowed us.
View Die Plaz Also, WO we Sai Pragies Die Auto,
softly it’s bell doch lots of it, what garages ( Traffic building, enclosed on all sides, with a front entry and exit) sin.
Wenn also nit jancing that husch of jlands, in spite of it in spite of heap it hückever:

Set up that Merg’s Game TILA …

If it comes to the Bell Jesellschaff, visit comes from Cologne,
To put the Villa Poppelsdorf on the Kopp.
Nit en seid, I don’t miss un Mem koppdoch ahn,
Jitt searches then dorme bell to Ihr there the mahathal in it.
Earz Singk It Ann Su

Set up that Merg’s Game TILA …

If et Bell su vöran mowed, it is not long,
Take Dat Met Dä Kühl and Kröpp Sing Ahle Jang.
Instead of as a home owner BRANGK ET Billa then
Koonyloot to andivius aries and r husband.
But vör d’r hand do it withstands, what later che it no matter:

Set up that Merg’s Game TILA …

  • Jutta Gay (ed.) And Stephan Meyer (editor): The Urkölsche song book , Cologne (Lund Verlagsgesellschaft) 2006
  • Udo Bürger: Rhenish underworld: criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 . Emons Verlag, Cologne
  • ReinOld Louis: Cologniii’s leathery pairs (which bowls of bodies of köwal assessments , Greven Verlag, Cologne 1986
  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFJutXHYDV4
  2. ↑ Louis, Rehenold: Pownnii’s leathery pairs. What köschal’s sparse of kicked , Cologne 1986, p. 25; Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, p. 234.
  3. ↑ Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, pp. 234/35; Cologne court newspaper and Rheinische Criminalzeitung No. 15 of April 14, 1906; same in: Düsseldorf court newspaper No. 15 of April 14, 1906.
  4. ↑ Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, p. 235; City Archives Bonn, registry office register Bonn 1852 (births) and 1894 and 1896 (deaths); City Archive Bonn, old inhabitant registration carty 1880–1919 (under Schmitz Sibilla and Schmitz Wilhelm Heinrich).
  5. ↑ Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, pp. 235/36; Cologne court newspaper and Rheinische Criminalzeitung No. 15 of April 14, 1906; Date of birth Else Schmitz: City Archive Bonn, old inhabitant registration carty 1880–1919 (under Schmitz Sibilla and Schmitz Wilhelm Heinrich, where the siblings of Sibilla Schmitz are also listed).
  6. ↑ Cologne court newspaper and Rheinische Criminalzeitung No. 15 of April 14, 1906.
  7. ↑ Cologne court newspaper and Rheinische Criminalzeitung No. 15 of April 14, 1906 (here it is said that business was only founded in 1897, but this was refuted by the address book of the city of Bonn from 1896, p. 224); Address books of the city of Bonn 1899 (pp. 90 and 233) and 1900 (pp. 91 and 240); Addresses of the places of residence: City Archives Bonn, old inhabitant registration card 1880–1919 (under Schmitz Sibilla and Schmitz Wilhelm Heinrich) and address book of the city of Bonn 1898 (p. 225), 1901 (p. 258) and 1902 (p. 271); Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, p. 236.
  8. ↑ Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, p. 237; House number 49 is not mentioned in the 1906 article. This results from the address books of the city of Bonn from 1903 (pp. 151 and 274) and 1905 (pp. 178 and 353) as well as from: City Archives Bonn, old inhabitant registration card 1880–1919 (under Schmitz Sibilla and Schmitz Wilhelm Heinrich).
  9. ↑ Cologne court newspaper and Rheinische Criminalzeitung No. 15 of April 14, 1906; Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, pp. 237–239.
  10. ↑ Cologne court newspaper and Rheinische Criminalzeitung No. 15 of April 14, 1906; City Archive Bonn, old inhabitant registration carty 1880–1919 (under Schmitz Sibilla and Schmitz Wilhelm Heinrich).
  11. ↑ Citizen, Udo: Rhenish underworld. Criminal cases in the Rhineland from 1815-1918 , Cologne 2013, pp. 239–240 (the postcard from 1905 on p. 240); General-Anzeiger Bonn from November 12, 2013; Express Bonn No. 232 of October 6, 2011, p. 27; Bönnsches Carnival Magazine Session 2012/2013 , S. 40–44; VIP. News for the parish association Bonn-Melbtal , 9th year, 4/2001, pp. 6–9; Blick up-AW journal on Saturday for the district of Ahrweiler No. 37/2001 of September 17, 2011.