Dumba mansion

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First state around 1876
Developed state around 1880
The salon of the villa around 1880

The Dumba Villa was a hunting lodge in Liezen in Styria in Austria, built in the historicism style and demolished in 1960 .

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The Liezen Dumba Villa was built in 1874/1875 as a hunting lodge by Friedrich von Schmidt's student August Krumholz for the Viennese industrialist and politician Nikolaus Dumba . Since around 1865 he has regularly spent the summer and autumn months in Liezen and in 1870 received honorary citizenship of the community for his social and economic commitment . The villa , which was built in two successive construction phases on Ausseer Straße, was located west of the then place in an exposed position above the Styrian Ennstal and represented an asymmetrical group of buildings with a side tower with a half-timbered top. The exterior appearance was characterized by the use of wooden arcades that the building should give a country house-like character. A surrounding sgraffito frieze with hunting scenes indicated the purpose of the house . Part of the Dumba family's extensive art collection was housed in the richly furnished villa.

The Dumba Villa became an important cultural center in the last quarter of the 19th century. Regular visits by the music critic Eduard Hanslick and the composers Richard Heuberger and Robert Fuchs are documented . The artists who stayed in Liezen as guests of the Dumba family included a. Rudolf von Alt , Gottfried Seelos and Karl Pischinger , who died here. In 1879, a meeting of the Liberal faction in the Austrian Imperial Council , led by Dumba, was held in the Dumba Villa . Nikolaus Dumba’s brother, Michael Dumba, owned his own, still preserved villa in Bad Ischl .

In 1940 a South Tyrolean settlement was established in the park of the Liezen Dumba Villa . In 1960 the villa building , which was last used as a music school , was demolished in favor of further housing developments. Has received other hand, the partially timbered built mansion of the associated Gutsanlage , but without the 2016 in favor of the "Dumbaparks" broken and already heavily over-molded, economic wings. This so-called Small Dumba Villa has been extensively restored since 2014, including its ornamental interior painting based on Ernst Brücke's color physiology published in 1865 .

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Web links

Commons : Dumba-Villa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Polzer, Wolfgang Flecker: Nikolaus Dumba, hunter and patron. In: Liezen im Zeitenwandel , episode 7, September 2002.
  2. ^ Adolf Schachner : Old, but good. In: Liezen im Zeitwandel , episode 44, December 2011.
  3. ^ Gerwald Mitteregger: Carl Pischinger, animal and landscape painter. In: Liezen im Zeitenwandel , episode 43, September 2011.
  4. ^ Elisabeth Springer: History and cultural life of the Wiener Ringstrasse ( The Wiener Ringstrasse - picture of an epoch, VIII, 3). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1979, p. 538.
  5. ^ Johann Josef Böker: The Small Dumba Villa in Liezen. In: Liezen im Zeitspiegel , episode 6, March 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 7.9 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 14.7 ″  E