Country house (architecture)

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A country house is a rural stylized, detached house in the country, surrounded by a garden area. It was mostly built on the corridor of villages in the vicinity of larger cities for a wealthy family with their servants, who at the beginning of the 19th century usually only inhabited it in summer, for summer retreat.

With the urbanization of the peripheral communities, the country house developed into a villa with its higher representative standard and the possibility of year-round living. At the beginning of the 20th century, as an alternative to historicism with the garden city movement , reform architecture and homeland security architecture, there was a return to the simpler, sometimes "picturesque and irregularly designed" country house, which was replaced by the single-family home in the 1920s .

In terms of architectural style and monument preservation, a variety of intermediate forms can be found between the country houses of the early 19th century , which often belong to classicism , and the later villas, which are more likely to be assigned to historicism or Art Nouveau , as well as the country houses of the early 20th century influenced by ideas about reform architecture. These are then often described as villa-like country houses or country houses .

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