Country house Baur

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Country house Baur
The Landhaus Baur, also known as the "Elbschlösschen"

The Landhaus Baur, also known as the "Elbschlösschen"

Data
place Hamburg-Nienstedten, Christian-F.-Hansen-Strasse 19
architect Christian Frederik Hansen
Client Johann Heinrich Baur
Construction year 1804-1806
Floor space 600 m²

The Landhaus Baur is a listed building on the Elbchaussee in Hamburg-Nienstedten . Due to its design, it is also known as the "Elbschlösschen".

Description and history

The Altona merchant and banker Johann Heinrich Baur (1767–1807) acquired the piece of land between today's Elbschloßstraße, Christian-F.-Hansen-Straße and Elbchaussee in 1803 and 1806 and then bought a garden house from Christian Frederik Hansen , a representative of Danish classicism build on the model of the Pantheon in Rome and the north Italian Renaissance villas of Andrea Palladio . The park was designed by the French architect Joseph Ramée . After Johann Heinrich Baur's early death, his younger brother and business partner Georg Friedrich Baur bought the building in 1807.

The country house, which has been a listed building since 1941, has bright, simple plastered facades, straight window canopies, an ionically arranged column portico and relief medallions . The cube-shaped building comprises, similar to the Villa Rotonda , a two-story circular central hall with a ten-foot dome with skylight. The hall is decorated with pilasters and statues arranged in a Corinthian manner , which stand in semicircular niches . The 20 rooms of the 600 m² house were faithfully restored by Alk Arwed Friedrichsen from 2002 to 2003 for two million euros. The central hall was painted with pastel tinted earth colors . The floors are made of Carrara marble. In 1943 a bomb hit the building. In order to restore the connection to the surrounding nature, a double house built in 1960 as well as part of the neighboring malt house, which approached the country house from the south up to eight meters, were demolished in the course of the restoration work.

use

The site including the buildings was sold to the Elbschloss Brewery in 1882 , which used it as an administration building until the company closed in 1997. Since 2000 the building has been owned by the Hermann Reemtsma Foundation , which is based there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide . 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 274 .
  2. ↑ Landhaus Baur (Elbschlösschen) website of the city of Hamburg. Retrieved December 27, 2014.

literature

  • Hermann Reemtsma Foundation (Ed.): The country house Baur by Christian F. Hansen in Altona. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-06541-5 .
  • Wolfgang Kemp : Hansen's country houses in Altona; their spatial organization , in Bärbel Hedinger (ed.): CF Hansen in Hamburg, Altona and the Elbe suburbs , Munich, 2000, pp. 42–43, ( pdf , 2 MB, University of Heidelberg).

Web links

Commons : Landhaus Baur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 0.1 ″  N , 9 ° 51 ′ 18.4 ″  E