Kussmaulstrasse 10
The building at Kußmaulstrasse 10 in the Neuenheim district of the city of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg was built in 1901. The villa is a protected architectural monument .
The plastered building with two storeys on a roughly square floor plan and a mansard roof was built according to plans by the architect Fritz Hirsch . The villa on the corner of Handschuhsheimer Landstrasse shows a volute gable on its main side to the west and a sandstone cartouche with Art Nouveau shapes above the entrance door to the south .
- Builder and residents
The builder and first resident was the then curator and "permanent assistant" of the Heidelberg University Library, Rudolf Sillib . In the cartouche above the entrance he left the Latin saying “Hoc erat in votis. Modus agri non da magnus. ” (That was my wish. A piece of land not that big.) . The quote alludes to Horace 's thanks to Maecenas for donating the villa in the Sabine Mountains . Sillib had already sold the villa again in 1911. This year the economist Hermann Levy is listed as a resident and owner.
The building has had different commercial users in recent times; it is currently used as a practice for physiotherapy and physiotherapy.
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Stadtkreis Heidelberg (Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg). Volume 1, Thorbecke Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3 . P. 276.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Address book of the city of Heidelberg together with the districts of Neuenheim, Schlierbach and Handschuhsheim as well as the adjacent parts of the municipality of Rohrbach for the year 1911. Heidelberg 1911. P. 80. Digitized
Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 7.2 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 27.9" E