Herfurthsche Villa (Leipzig)

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Villa Herfurth

The Herfurthsche Villa at Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse 11 in Leipzig is a three-storey villa .

history

The development of Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße is mainly due to the redesign of the southern Leipzig promenade and the continuation of the park from the Grimmaischer Tor to the esplanade in the second half of the 19th century. Especially after the construction of the New Theater on the Schneckenberg in 1864, the large plots of land and gardens adjacent to the southern promenade ring were parceled out and sold as building land. Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße encircles such former garden land in an arc to the east; the rectangular layout of the properties and side streets still reveals the planned parceling of the green areas. The villa was built on such a plot from 1892 to 1894 by the Leipzig architects Karl Weichardt and Bruno Eelbo for the geologist Hermann Credner (1841–1913). The house became an intellectual and cultural center of Leipzig, guests included Meyer and Brockhaus, Amundsen, Nansen, Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Max Klinger and Max Liebermann .

In 1913 the villa was sold to Edgar Herfurth , the publisher of the Leipzig Latest News . In 1915 and 1927 renovations took place. In 1945 Herfurth was expropriated and the villa was given to the university clinic . In 1990 the villa was used by the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Academy of Music , after which it was handed over to the Leipzig Gallery for Contemporary Art . In 1996 restoration and conversion work took place .

description

The villa was built in the style of historicism , based on northern Italian villas. The building is plastered and shows, in addition to bay windows and balconies, a column portico with an elevated central projection . The north-west side as the show side shows a painting over the triumphal arch-like vaulted balcony on the first floor, which adorns the recessed gable wall .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waltraud Volk: Leipzig. Historic streets and squares today. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1981, p. 176 ff.

literature

  • Kurt-Rudolf Böttger: New Leipzig pocket dictionary for locals and foreigners. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-933240-51-4 , p. 62. ( Preview on Google Books )
  • Christa Grimm, Ilse Nagelschmidt, Ludwig Stockinger: Theory and practice of cultural studies. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-936522-34-0 .
  • Katharina Kunath: The Villa Credner / Herfurth in Leipzig. unpublished master's thesis, University of Leipzig, Institute for Art History, 2007.
  • Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Saxony. City of Leipzig. Vol. 1, southern urban expansion. State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.), Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-345-00628-9 , p. 272 ​​f.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 2.3 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 55 ″  E