Villa Four Seasons

The Villa Vier Jahreszeiten is a listed building with a representative character in the Saxon textile town of Crimmitschau .

history

The " Villa Vier Jahreszeiten" was commissioned by the textile manufacturer Bernhard Schönfeld between 1903 and 1905 for 200,000 gold marks by the local architect and building contractor Emil Birkner in the historicism style opposite the Bismarckhain. The usable area was an impressive 1,600 square meters. The house used to be popularly known as the “Eskimo Villa”. Its builder, City Councilor Schönfeld, gained wealth and reputation through the industrial production of a heavy Eskimo coat material in the father's textile factory "Heinrich Schönfeld" founded in 1841.

The house was built in solid construction with a clinker-sandstone facade. The red of the clinker brick surfaces contrasts with the black slate of the mansard roof , the roughly hewn natural stones of the basement and the sandstone-colored walls, cornices , oriels , gables and balconies. The villa combines stylistic elements of the French Neo-Renaissance with those of the Art Nouveau . In the design of the wrought-iron enclosure of the park-like garden, motifs similar to daisies with five-fingered leaves are recessed from the grilles of the villa doors and windows. The size of the restored main gate is exceptional. The interior of the stairwell, entrées and the representative rooms are made of valuable materials and artistically. Stucco work and decorative painting, more clearly than the exterior design, following the development of the interior design over time, are without exception committed to Art Nouveau.

Bernhard Schönfeld (1856–1931) lived in the villa until his death. After the Second World War, in addition to members of the remaining factory owner family, up to eight other resettled families lived in the villa at the same time. It was administered by the municipal VEB building management and fell into disrepair. The large garden was divided several times as a result of inheritance disputes and expropriation. In 2000, a civil engineer from Crimmitschau acquired the main part of the 2,800 square meter villa estate, renovated the house with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , furnished it completely with antique furniture from the imperial era and opened a museum 4-star hotel in 2006.

An oversized stained glass window depicting the Prussian Queen Luise was the backdrop for the foundation of the new Queen Luise Association in 2010. In the villa there is a thematic library, a collection of paintings, pictures and postcards about the mythical veneration of Queen Luise.

literature

Andrea Bergler: Manufacturers' villas in Crimmitschau. Westsächsisches Textilmuseum Crimmitschau, Crimmitschau, 2002, ISBN 3-00-009024-X .

Rita Müller: Crimmitschau villas tell history. Zweckverband Sächsisches Industriemuseum, Chemnitz, ISBN 978-3-934512-25-2 .

Michael Gabor: Villa Vier Jahreszeiten - intellectual chatter of an educated citizen about the stories of this house. Hotel Villa Vier Jahreszeiten, Crimmitschau, 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059365-9 .

U. Haese, E. Schmidt, M. Strauss, M. Less: Matters of opinion - strong women in the Zwickau region. Gutenberg Buchhandlung Zwickau, Zwickau, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9803702-5-7 .

Armin Andrä , Ch. Rabe: Crimmitschau and surroundings in words and images, Volume 1. Self-published, Rostock, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039961-9 .

Erhard Lemm: Crimmitschau - Large district town in Saxony. Verlag Erhard Lemm, Gera, 2004, ISBN 3-931635-27-9 .

Andrea Bereš: Crimmitschau through the ages . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95976-092-8 .

Holger Norden: Factory owner's villa is turning into a four-star hotel. In: Freie Presse from December 22, 2018

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50.82014 12.38354Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '12.5 " N , 12 ° 23' 0.7" E