House of Ithaca
The House Ithaca or Villa Ithaka is a neo-baroque villa in Weimar that the Horn 25 above the eastern slope of the Park on the Ilm is. The house was designed by the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg in 1906/07 for the writer and diplomat Ernst von Wildenbruch (1845–1909). In 1907 Ernst von Wildenbruch moved to Weimar and the House of Ithaka, after having regularly spent several months a year in Weimar since 1892. For Wildenbruch this name was probably also a reminiscence of an earlier trip to Greece, especially Athens .
At the beginning of the 20th century, the villa was one of the most modern residential buildings in Weimar; the historian Willi Oberkrome counts them among Schultze-Naumburg's “famous buildings” and sees them as one of the “emblems of modern German architecture”. After Ernst von Wildenbruch died in 1909, his widow lived there until her death in 1920. A poetry museum, as once thought, was not established there. Instead, the house was passed into municipal ownership and between 1928 and 1990 a. a. used as a hospital or children's home.
The Ithaca house was supposed to allow an unobstructed view of the park, which is no longer possible today because of the buildings that were erected below the villa "in the usual investor architecture " following the sale of the property to a project developer in 1997 .
The architect had already met Ernst von Wildenbruch in 1903, and they both realized several projects together. Schultze-Naumburg designed the poet's tomb with Doric columns, which is located in the historical cemetery .
House Ithaka in Graal-Müritz
Rudolf Presber wrote a novel entitled Haus Ithaka , which was published in Stuttgart in 1926. This does not mean the Weimar villa, but Presber's summer house at Fritz-Reuter-Strasse 17 in Graal-Müritz , which he had acquired in 1922. Today the bathing library of the Baltic Sea is located there .
literature
- Villa Ithaca. In: Kerstin Sucher, Bernd Wurlitzer: Weimar. DuMont, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7701-7272-6 , p. 108.
Web links
- Christoph Schwarzkopf: Episodes from 100 years of heritage protection and monument preservation in Thuringia. On: Denkmalpfleger.de .
- Paul Schultze-Naumburg (1869-1949). On: Naumburg1933.de .
Individual evidence
- ^ Willi Oberkrome : German home. National conception and regional practice of nature conservation. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2004, ISBN 3-506-71693-X , p. 144 .
- ↑ a b Christoph Schwarzkopf: Episodes from 100 years of heritage protection and monument preservation in Thuringia. ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: Denkmalpfleger.de .
- ↑ bathrooms library "House Ithaca". ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ostseebibliotheken.de .
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 36.4 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 20.5 ″ E