Three-villa group Comeniusstrasse 61–65
The three-villa group Comeniusstrasse 61-65 in the Dresden district of Striesen consisted of three residential buildings, which were built from October 1899 to August 1900 based on designs by the Dresden architecture firm Rose & Röhle . They were destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945.
Martin Hammitzsch lived in the house on the left at Comeniusstrasse 61 from 1937 . In the middle house at Comeniusstraße 63, the respected royal Saxon chamber singer Marie Wittich lived with her husband, the former city councilor (retired), who had died before her , until her death in 1931 . jur. Karl Lazy .
description
They were in a privileged location in the immediate vicinity of the Great Garden and the City Exhibition Palace . Each villa contained a single-family apartment with a hallway extending through two floors. The buildings rested on a 1.25 m high basement. The business and social rooms could be found on the ground floor, which was raised in this way. The bedroom, guest room, bathroom and girls' room were on the two upper floors. The facades were smoothly plastered and kept in a yellowish shade. Sandstone was used sparingly.
The stair tower at Villa I was painted gray. Numerous sculptures in sandstone or lime mortar by the Dresden sculptor Reinhold König adorned the facade. The wood visible in the facade was stained in a gray-brown tone. The roof was steep and covered with fire-red beaver tails . The interior of the three villas was richly decorated with wallpaper, stoves and paintings.
Art historical significance
The building complex is considered an “interesting example” of the “English custom of combining several villas into one building group in order to create large resting points in the colorful row of small country houses along the streets of the suburbs and metropolitan suburbs”. Each of the houses was given its "individual physiognomy". Despite this "diversity in the details", the impression of unity dominated. This was the result of the coordinated color mood.
literature
- Wilhelm Kick (Hrsg.): Modern new buildings , 4th year, Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1902.
- Volker Helas, Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag for Architecture - Photography - Art, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 . Picture No. 144 and 145 and p. 97.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 30.2 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 13 ″ E