Ernstplatz 8
Villa Ernstplatz 8 in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg is a residential and commercial building that was built in 1900. The planning and construction of the manorial residence for the meat manufacturer Tobias Großmann was the responsibility of the Coburg building officer Carl Kleemann . The building is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
The builder of the villa was the councilor Tobias Großmann, born in 1852 . Among other things, he also owned the Birkenmoor estate near Meeder . Großmann was the owner of C. Großmann GmbH, an important company in the meat processing industry with around 100 employees, which went back to a butcher shop founded in 1786 and existed as a stock corporation until the end of the 20th century. From 1919 to 1933 Abraham Friedmann headed the meat products company as general director, after the name was changed to a stock corporation on July 1, 1922 as a member of the board. As a Jew, Friedmann was exposed to a hate speech and defamation campaign by the National Socialists as early as the 1920s, as a result of which the Coburg NSDAP won an absolute majority in city council elections in 1929 (see also Coburg during the National Socialist era ). Großmann was a member of the company's board of directors until 1932. The company's best-known product was the Coburg delicatessen ham. This is why the stately home on Ernstplatz was also popularly known as the “ham villa”.
The planning and construction of the building with a natural stone facade and a roof covered with slate was the responsibility of the Coburg building officer Carl Kleemann. In 1900, a representative villa was built in the Baroque historicism .
After Tobias Großmann died in 1936 with no heirs, the property was sold and converted into a private hospital. The new owner added a terrace to the rear, added a garage and also expanded the attic. Instead of a flat roof, the upper hipped roof was created with new dormers and tiles as roof cladding. A major change in the appearance of the villa and garden ensemble in the 1970s meant the transfer of part of the property for the widening of Goethestrasse. The garden in particular was affected. In 1992, the purchaser of the property, Michael Knörnschild, arranged for his engineering office to be converted into an office building. He had the overgrown ornamental garden reconstructed. In 2003 the second floor was converted into an apartment. In 2013 the basement, which housed a copy shop, was rebuilt, and the south and west facades were renovated in 2015 and 2016.
architecture
The mansard roof structure has different forms of structure. On the garden side, the south side, the corner frames appear as grooved pilasters on the ground floor and Tuscan pilasters on the upper floor. The central risalit with a pilaster-framed garden portal and an upper floor divided by pilasters with a balcony bordered by a balustrade and supported by columns and pillars looks like a belvedere . The dwarf house is supported by volute braces , flanked by two dormer windows with corner pilasters and round arches.
On the east side of the street, on the right, is the entrance portal in the form of a columned aedicula with elaborately carved wings, above which there is a large cartouche with initials. A three-storey, five-sided oriel with half-columns on the upper storey is located in front of a pronounced central projection. The north side is structured by a central projection with the same elements as on the garden side.
The wide, wooden staircase has a balustrade of twisted pillars, decorated with dolphins below. On the mezzanine floor there is a wooden three-part arch with twisted columns and rich wall pillars. Stucco frames structure the walls and ceilings. The office entrance still has partially etched glass panes.
The terrace on the south side with its basement is characteristic of the building. With balustrades and a wide staircase with two stone figures, it forms the transition from the architecture to the garden.
The gardener Franz Wöhner planned the villa garden. The property was fenced in with a high wall in some areas for an earth wall. Essential elements of the historicizing art garden were the artificially created grotto in the earth wall, a wooden, eight-meter-high garden pavilion standing above the grotto and designed as a Nordic stave church, and a small water pond on the street. What remains of the original garden is the grotto, a primeval sequoia and two giant sequoia trees, as well as a real walnut at the northern end of the garden.
literature
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV.48 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 70 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 25 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 42 ″ E