Grützner Villa
The Grützner Villa is a building on Bautzner Straße 17 in the Äußere Neustadt in Dresden . The villa has been a listed building since 1971 .
history
The Grützner Villa was built around 1835 on what was then Bautzner Strasse 10. The first occupant of the house was Heinrich August Schönert, a wine tavern in 1835. It is not known whether he also initiated the construction of the house. Later, individual rooms in the building were rented to the military, among others.
In 1887 the already seriously ill industrialist Karl August Emil Grützner (1841–1888) bought the house for himself and his family. He had the villa expanded and the interior rebuilt according to the modern taste of the time and adapted to his illness. This gave it the character of a city villa. Grützner died in 1888, his wife in 1908. The house was then used as a practice by an alternative practitioner until 1939 and rented out. A relative of Carl Maria von Weber lived in the villa for a while; from 1927 to 1931 one room served as the Nicaraguan consulate, while later a local branch of the Reich Air Protection Association used rooms in the villa.
The house was popular with artists in the 1950s. The singer Ruth Glowa (1918–1971) lived in rooms in the adjoining building, and Theo Adam , as a still unknown singer, gave house concerts with musicians in the building. The villa was later used commercially by dentists and various companies, among other things, with the leather wallpaper removed and the floors renewed. In 1971 the building was placed under a preservation order and in the following years it was modernized, among other things, by cladding the walls and hanging the ceilings, with historical parts of the furnishings being lost. The house began to deteriorate in the 1980s when damage to the roof increasingly led to water damage in and on the building. The last private tenants moved out of the villa in 1992.
In 1990 a project development company acquired the building and had the villa restored from 1991 to 1993 in accordance with a listed building. In 1993 a branch of the Löbbecke Bank moved into the Grützner Villa. Today the villa can be rented for corporate and private events.
Building description
The Grützner Villa was built around 1835 as a simple, classicist house. It consisted of a living area that stretched over two floors and a separate side building that was used as a stable and wash house and was also rented from 1882. After Emil Grützner had acquired the house in 1887, the exterior and interior were remodeled in a historicizing manner. The villa was connected to the side building, which was almost at right angles to it, which now functioned as a side wing and was additionally extended. The newly created transition area became a dining room. A spacious staircase connected the individual floors with one another.
Inside, the rooms were elaborately designed in the neo-renaissance style with strong colors, paintings and stucco decorations. In addition to a spacious back garden, the villa also has a narrower front garden, which was created as an ornamental garden around a newly created fountain as part of the redesign of the house.
The building remained undamaged when Dresden was bombed in 1945 and was largely in its original structural condition until the 1950s. Due to the commercial use of the villa, the interior room layout was changed several times, for example through new partition walls or the suspended ceilings for better heating of the high rooms. During the restoration of the building in the 1990s, the additional partition walls and ceiling inserts were removed in order to come close to the floor plan of the villa from 1887.
literature
- Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, p. 119, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
- Hans-Peter Lühr (Ed.): The Grützner Villa. History and renovation of a Dresden town house . Verlag Sandstein, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-930382-03-2 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '48.6 " N , 13 ° 45' 0.7" E