Grumbche Villa

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Villa Grumbt, view from the north-west

The under monument protection standing Grumbtsche Villa is a prestigious Villa in the style of the Italian Renaissance Revival in Dresden district Leipziger Vorstadt (Statistical district Pieschen-South ), at the Alexander Pushkin Square 1. It was in 1888 probably by a student Constantin Lipsius ' for the merchant , Entrepreneur and Reichstag member Carl Ernst Grumbt established.

history

Photo of the villa from 1992
( Deutsche Fotothek , without attribution)

At the end of the 19th century, various industrial settlements took place in the Leipzig suburb, which had been rural until then. For example the Schlick shipyard , the Neustädter Holzhof and, in 1869, the steam sawmill owned by Carl Ernst Grumbt. Thanks to the good business with wood, which came by water from the Czech Republic, Sweden and Russia and was processed into timber and boards in the sawmill, Grumbt was able to build the representative, detached villa in 1888. The entrepreneurial family lived on the upper floor, servants' apartments were under the roof. The business premises were on the ground floor. At times, rooms were also rented to wealthy people.

The villa was owned by the Grumbt family until 1945; after the end of the Second World War , an Alfred Grumbt is entered in the address book as the owner. The family was soon expropriated it and in the villa were an officers' mess of the Soviet Army and a library set up. In the 1970s, this comprised around 9,000 volumes and is described by Helga Schütz in her autobiographical book “Jette in Dresden”. On May 17, 1949, the then Mayor of Dresden, Walter Weidauer , handed the villa over to the Dresden branch of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship as the "House for Studying Soviet Culture A. S. Puschkin " . For the next four decades, the Pushkin House served as a cultural and meeting center. The largest renovation of the villa was carried out at this time: the partition walls of three rooms on the upper floor were removed so that the resulting hall could serve as a cinema.

Villa Grumbt, view from the north-east

After the fall of 1989/1990, the building was returned to the heirs of the Grumbt family and in 1994 sold to the Upper Swabian businessman Jörg Mussotter. The restorers commissioned by him described the condition of the house as “relatively good”, “in principle everything was still there”. Up until then there had been individual water leaks, some ceilings had been dropped and the heating no longer worked, "but the roof was fine". Mussotter had the villa extensively renovated for two million euros. Until 2012 there was a furniture store in the villa known as Villa Sofa . The villa was sold in March 2013. During the June floods in 2013 , the basement was flooded and the three centimeter thick granite floor had to be replaced. By the end of the same year, the house was largely rented again. Today there are apartments in the attic and in the basement.

description

Outside

The two-storey building, inspired by the Italian Renaissance style, stands on an embossed sandstone base with an asymmetrical floor plan. The entire façade is made of sandstone, interspersed with some stucco marble - encrustations . The staircase tower and the balconies primarily meet the modern requirements of the owner; the model of an Italian palazzo can be found at most in the ornamentation and the shape of the three-part windows. The building has a size of five to three symmetrical window axes and a flat hipped roof .

On the street-side front there are powerful two-axis side risers . In the right side view, porches with a double flight of stairs , bay windows and exedra - like two-storey conversion of the central axes stand out. At the rear of the villa there is a domed, over-a-corner bay window. The floors are divided by cornices and pilaster architecture. The strong window frames are usually provided with flat gable roofs.

Inside

Entrance hall
Floor mosaic in the porch

Inside the villa, ceiling paintings, stucco ceilings and marble walls from the time it was built, valuable inlays and original interior paintings have been preserved . The latter show similarities to the ornamentation of the Semper Opera , for which Gottfried Semper was inspired by wall paintings in Pompeii . In keeping with Grumbt's profession as a timber merchant and processor, the house has coffered ceiling and wall coverings as well as parquet flooring , which has a different pattern in each room, supported by different dark woods. All doors in the house are made of wood, veneered with oak or walnut , coffered, profiled and some with elaborate inlays. The locks and fittings of the doors and windows are made of brass . Cuffs and edge bars often have chasings .

The lavishly designed staircase on the south side of the building is covered with soft yellowish shimmering artificial marble. The walls are completely covered with light, slightly reddish stucco marble. The stairs are made of real black granite .

In terms of furnishings, only the fixed fixtures from the time of construction have been preserved. These include oversized, richly decorated mirrors in the entrance hall and a tiled stove in the adjacent room to the north. Today it is no longer possible to determine whether the walls were originally covered with wallpaper or fabric. In the winter garden there is a tile picture with a forest motif from the time the villa was built. Half of the picture destroyed over time was replaced by a painting in the 1990s.

In 1997, a twelve-square-meter floor mosaic was restored in the entrance area of ​​the main floor. This was expired and damaged, many stones were missing. Within three weeks, 3000 new stones were inserted into the marble mosaic. The cost of the renovation amounted to DM 15,000.

gallery

  • South-west side of the villa with winter garden and terrace

  • Stucco ceiling

  • Decorated door and inlaid parquet

  • Carl Ernst Grumbt's initials on the southwest entrance door

  • Mirror in the entrance hall

literature

Web links

Commons : Grumbtsche Villa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kathrin Kupka-Hahn: Life is moving into the former “Villa Sofa” . In: Saxon newspaper . November 26, 2013 ( paid online [accessed on January 21, 2014]).
  2. ^ Siegfried Thiele: Leipziger Vorstadt - dream villas in Dresden (65): Grumbt-Haus - Holzkönig resided on Puschkinplatz . In: Dresdner Latest News . October 2, 2002.
  3. ↑ Herbert Wotte, Siegfried Hoyer: City Guide Atlas Dresden . 1st edition. VEB Tourist Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1978, p. 94 .
  4. ↑ Peter Salzmann: The center is the villa . In: Saxon newspaper . December 24, 2004 ( paid online [accessed January 21, 2014]).
  5. ↑ Information on Alexander-Puschkinplatz at dresdner-stadtteile.de, accessed on January 21, 2014
  6. ↑ Street names: Alexander Pushkin Square . In: Saxon newspaper . December 11, 1997.
  7. ↑ Siiri Klose: A diva in the village square . In: Saxon newspaper . April 6, 2006 ( paid online [accessed on January 21, 2014]).
  8. ↑ Kathrin Kupka-Hahn: "Villa Sofa" has a new owner . In: Saxon newspaper . August 1, 2013 ( paid online [accessed January 21, 2014]).
  9. ^ Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden, 1800-1900 . Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 978-3-364-00261-3 , p. 153 .
  10. ^ Anne Gärtner: Leipziger Vorstadt. Valuable floor mosaic in the Pushkin House restored. Restoration for 15,000 marks ended after three weeks . In: Dresdner Latest News . May 31, 1997.

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 11.7 "  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 46"  E