Villa to the lip
The Villa zur Lippe is a neo-baroque villa building from 1904 in the Dresden district of Blasewitz . The renovated building with the address Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 88 is used today by the Saxon District Association.
history
The villa, named after one of its previous owners, was initially built on a single floor in 1904 in the neo-baroque style. The clients were the internationally successful theater actor Felix Schweighofer (1842–1912) and his second wife Friederike (1851–1945), who commissioned the architect Richard Schleinitz with the design. The lively baroque facade of this building is preceded by a large terrace with a dolphin fountain as a wall fountain on the ground floor.
However, the building soon proved to be unsuitable for the needs of the artist couple, so that only a few years later Schweighofer and his wife moved into the neighboring house No. 87 (from then on called "Felixhof", destroyed in 1945).
In 1908, Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich V von Mecklenburg-Strelitz bought the property for his daughter (Victoria) Marie before her foreseeable divorce from her husband, who from then on lived with the two children from her first marriage both in Neustrelitz and here. She had the building added and rebuilt inside. In 1911, the landscape architect JP Großmann, with the help of the gardening expert Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg, laid out a spacious garden in a functional design language, which was one of the most important of its kind in Dresden. Below the floor and edged with natural stones, there is also a small fountain, a water feature with a clear water nozzle .
On August 11, 1914, Marie married Prince Julius Ernst zur Lippe (1873–1952), the third son of Ernst zur Lippe-Biesterfeld and Karoline, born in Neustrelitz . Countess von Wartensleben and became the "Princess of the Lippe". The couple had two children here and the villa began to be known as Villa zur Lippe .
After the couple initially used the Waldsee hunting lodge as their second residence, from 1930 Julius Ernst zur Lippe began renovating the family home, the Lippesche Landhaus in Oberkassel near Bonn , and from then on the family spent the summer in Oberkassel and the winter in this villa.
During the air raids on Dresden , the neighboring building at Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer 87 was destroyed by a bomb, but the Villa zur Lippe was preserved except for minor damage. The family took this as an opportunity to flee to Oberkassel. The advancing Red Army requisitioned the building and the family was expropriated.
From the beginning of the 1950s, after the Red Army left, this building was used by the hotels and restaurants of the trade organization (HOG) of the Dresden district (HOG), where it remained until 1991. After the Red Army moved out, there was a night dance bar, "Kaskade", in the house until the end of the 1960s, and for many years the only night dance bar in Dresden.
After 1991 the Sächsische Landkreistag took over the building, on whose behalf it was renovated (building and room acoustics planning: engineering office Löwe, structural planning: company Kröning ∙ Ulbrich ∙ Schröter from Dresden). In addition to the Saxon District Association, it houses S-Factoring GmbH (a company of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden and Sparkasse Leipzig ) and other offices.
Dolphin fountain
There is a wall fountain on the terrace in front of the house . In the middle of the terrace wall , a round arch lined with pilasters has been added. It frames the relief of a scallop shell and has a lion's head motif on the keystone. The scallop is adorned by a dolphin, which also serves as a gargoyle : a water veil falls from its mouth into a semicircular basin lined with lead, from which the water flows in individual rivulets into an approximately 2 meter * 4 meter almost rectangular basin below falls. The well has been renovated and is ready for operation, but is only rarely put into operation.
See also
literature
- Detlef Eilfeld, Jochen Hänsch: The Dresden fountain book - water in its most beautiful form. Volume II, SV Saxonia Verlag, Dresden n.d. 2016, ISBN 978-3-944210-75-9 , pp. 82-83.
Web links
- The Villa zur Lippe on dresdner-stadtteile.de
- Use of the villa by the family on mecklenburg-strelitz.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical views of Blasewitz states that the year of construction was 1906.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 43.1 ″ E