Hohmannsche Villa

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Hohmannsche Villa, entrance area
Garden side

The Hohmannsche Villa is a listed residential building in the Magdeburg district of Westerhüsen , Alt Westerhüsen 132.

history

The villa , designed in the style of reform architecture with echoes of Art Nouveau , was built in 1911–1912 as the home of the entrepreneur Robert Hohmann . The building permit was granted on June 6, 1911, and the house was occupied on March 5, 1912.

Born on March 11, 1878 as the son of Magdeburg mortar manufacturer August Hohmann , Robert Hohmann was co-owner of the dragee factory founded in Magdeburg-Wilhelmstadt in 1902 and relocated to Westerhüsen in 1904 . The factory temporarily employed 120 people and processed 900 tons of sugar. Hohmann sold his factory on July 1, 1929 to the Wittmeyer & Wesche company and moved back to Magdeburg in autumn 1930. The villa was sold in 1930 to the Düsseldorf chemical company Henkel , who used it as the apartment of the director of the company's own straw cardboard factory Richard Linke in Westerhüsen . The production of the drageefactory was stopped on July 1, 1934.

architecture

The two-storey with rough plaster provided House was designed by the architects Richter Gustav . The design is reminiscent of buildings by the architect Albinmüller or the Darmstadt artists' colony . The steep, somewhat curved hipped roof is striking . The facade on the street side is characterized by a round bay window and a corner bay window on the southwest corner. In addition, the facade is pilasters and arched - aperture divided, the latter are decorated with small plastic elements. On the entrance side there is a dormer window , which is designed in the manner of a thermal bath window .

literature

  • Folkhard Cremer (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Saxony-Anhalt I, administrative district Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 627.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 57.
  • Between the factory chimney and the pigeon tower. In: Magdeburg-Westerhüsen, supplement to the Magdeburger Kirchenblatt , 7th year 1930, No. 3 (March), page 8.

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 45.8 ″  E