Julburg
The listed Villa Zur Julburg in the Bachviertel in Leipzig is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings of historicism and was the residence of the architect Oskar Mothes .
description
The villa built in 1873/74 at Plagwitzer Strasse 38, later Helfferichstrasse, now Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse 70, in the historicizing neo-Gothic style - probably based on plans by Oskar Mothes himself - was named by the architect after his wife "Julburg". Mothes had his design office in the house, and the owner of the printing and publishing house, Otto Dürr and his wife (a sister of Oskar Mothes) lived on the ground floor. The villa has an English-style garden.
The following inscriptions are on the house:
Built AD 1878 by Baurath O. Mothes.
God save this building / Julburg it is called / in honor of the best woman / in the whole of Saxony.
My house, stand firm, don't turn to it, even if you are criticized by some men.
The striking appearance was achieved by the height grading of the individual buildings, which differed greatly from one another. There is a large stair tower with a covered wooden walkway and a small round tower with a conical roof, which also contains a stair spindle. Porphyry stone enriches the plaster facade of the multi-part corner building. Inside there are different style references and built-in spoilers , including painted wooden beam ceilings and leaded glass windows. The garden grotto has oil stencil painting. The pieces of equipment in the style of neo-Gothic and neo-renaissance have been almost completely preserved. In the basement there is a "drinking hall" with a column vault from the demolition of medieval village churches from the area.
The horse stable belonging to the villa was also built in 1908 in Gothic style.
In the years 1993-1996 the building was restored. From 1977 to 2001 it housed the premises for the museology course (until 1992 institute for museology, until 1988 technical school for museologists) in the media department of the university for technology, economics and culture . At the moment it is again a home and a law firm.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony II. The administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 542.
- Wolfgang Hocquél: Leipzig - Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 .
- Rudolf Mothes: Memoirs. 5 volumes (typewritten), City Archives, Leipzig ( online version ).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 5.2 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 14.9 ″ E