Dragon House (Trier)
The Drachenhaus on Stuckradweg 5 in Trier is a classicist building above the Trier district of Pallien.
history
Around 1819, the Lord Mayor of Trier, Wilhelm von Haw, bought the land on which he had his private villa built in 1823 . This also included the so-called Mergener Grünhäuschen. This small estate originally belonged to the St. Marien monastery and was replaced by the Drachenhaus in 1829, which was to serve as an economic building for the Villa Weißhaus . The dragon house is located about 500 meters northwest of the villa on the site of the former rose garden.
After Wilhelm von Haw died in 1862, the governor of Luxembourg, Prince Henry of the Netherlands , bought the property. He turned the dragon house into a dwelling place for his forester. The building, which is now a tenement house, later became the property of the city. As in Prince Heinrich's time, today (2011) the municipal forest ranger's office in Weisshaus-Pfalzel, which looks after the 1400 hectares of urban forest and the game reserve, including the depot in the Drachenhaus, is housed. In addition, four apartments are rented. In the immediate vicinity there is a log cabin with a forest museum, a forest nature trail and a game reserve.
Building
The dragon house is named after the two copper dragons that are mounted on its corner projections . However, these dragons, which originally served as gargoyles in a town house in Trier on Simeonstrasse, were not on the dragon house from the start, but were added a few years later.
The dragon house has a horseshoe-shaped floor plan. The main building is two-story, the two wings only one and a half story.
The facade is designed symmetrically. There is a fan-shaped skylight above the door . Both floors have five similarly designed axes, each with a window, to which an axis with three windows is attached on the outside. Of these three windows, the middle one is the same size as the windows in the middle of the facade, the two outer ones are narrower. The two risalites connect to these three-pronged axes. These each have a normal window on the ground floor and a large semicircular window on the upper floor; the wall surface is set back a little here. Consoles can be seen under the eaves and acroteries above the eaves .
The courtyard wings of the Dragon House are windowless to the outside, on the courtyard side they each have five windows and two doors on the lower floor, and on the mezzanine above five lunettes above a cornice.
The windows in the side wings are comparable to thermal bath windows . The building, like the villa to which it belonged, is a testament to Prussian classicism, which was represented by the city architect Johann Georg Wolff . However, the architect of the Drachenhaus was not Wolff himself.
Web links
literature
- Claudia Jaskowski: The rose garden at the Drachenhaus in Trier. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . 36th Volume, No. 2, 1999, pp. 122–127.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 6 ° 37 ′ 50.9 ″ E