Landhausvilla Benediktinerstraße 12
| Landhausvilla Benediktinerstr. 12 | |
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 View of the monument from the street |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin |
| builder | Felix Sturm |
| Construction year | 1934-1935 |
| height | 8-10 m |
| Floor space | 67 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 37 '55 " N , 13 ° 17' 0.6" E |
The country house villa at Benediktinerstraße 12 in the Berlin district of Frohnau was built in 1934/1935 according to plans and under the direction of the architect Felix Sturm and in 1989 it was placed under a preservation order because of its “architectural and artistic importance” .
Building description
Exterior
According to experts from the area of monument protection, the house in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf is designed in the style of anthroposophical architecture . In particular, it shows features of Art Nouveau and Expressionism .
The front of the building is a total of 7.5 meters long and faces southeast. The facade (outer house surfaces, entrance, all outer steps, cornices, basement neck covers) as well as the pillars of the front garden fence are clad with Bytom clinker bricks in the Dutch association . The facade ends in a two-tier stepped gable .
The gable lines are "broken up by outwardly rising staggering, attached brick ornaments and edgewise or radially offset stones on window lintels and door frames give the wall surface [...] structure and relief".
The entrance area is on the right-hand side and is framed with a “two-step parabolic ascending arch” made of “selected hard-fired red and colored bricks (make by Beuthener Stadtziegelei)” and designed with a striking keystone. A porch adjoins the semi-open, covered entrance. Input and windscreen are provided with Rabitz - vault spans. The porch door is rounded at the top, divided into rungs and decorated with colored antique glass, the entrance door behind it was glazed from mirror wire glass . It is alleged that the original design by the architect Felix Sturm had further "edges and corners".
The exterior walls of the villa facing away from the street are protected with tinted gravel wash plaster, the plaster for the weather side was given a water-repellent Ceresit or Sika additive.
The house walls were made from "burnt saltpeter-free bricks " - good demolition stones were also permitted - or from "first-class full-edged sand-lime bricks " or from extended cement mortar ( for the cellar). For the thicker outer walls, “only single-handed hollow bricks (EHZ bricks), honeycomb bricks or Frewen bricks ” were used. For non-load-bearing walls inside next to "extended cement mortar" could also Rabitz or cinder blocks of the Berlin slag works are used.
The left side is 12 m long, the right 11 m. The length of the rear front facing the garden is 8 m.
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On the left corner of the house at the level of the upper floor, the figure of Genoveva von Brabant with the doe is placed on the side of a gable. The sculpture was made by the Frohnau sculptor ("Herrgottschnitzer") Johannes Lotter according to the specifications of the architect, who had specified "concrete with artificial stone facing concrete to match the masonry" as the material.
The slightly arched bay window on the ground floor on the left side of the house, designed as a balcony , forms a counterpoint to the house entrance on the right.
The top floor has “outer half-timbered walls made of iron or planed wood, stiffened with struts and bolts” on the side and on the garden side .
The windows on the ground floor and the patio door received wooden roller blinds with inlaid steel plates, which are rolled up in a box above the lintel .
The main roof is a gable roof and is covered with blue folding pans (" Kodersdorfer manufacture"). The side roofs are covered with other materials such as zinc sheets, green lederoid or ruberoid cardboard. The bay window as well as the gutters and pipes were covered with copper sheets .
The entire property is demarcated from the street side with a front garden fence. The pillars were made from the same material as the facade according to the architect's specifications, and it rests on concrete foundations. The door pillars contain walled-in mailboxes. The fence panels and the "wicket door" are made of wood in the form of bars with struts.
Finally, the architect also determined the type and dimensions of the footpaths: the path from the property entrance to the house entrance with a total width of 1.40 m is laid out with red facing bricks and / or cement - artificial stone panels with a jointed border. The footpath from the basement entrance to the terrace stairs and the eaves strips were to be implemented in the same way.
The house has been a listed building since April 1989 .
Interior
Wooden stairs to the partial basement and to the converted attic with a loft above open up the floors in the residential building.
In the basement there are utility rooms such as a coal storage facility and a laundry room. Over the years, the coal heating was allowed to be replaced by a more modern and environmentally friendly oil heating.
The ground floor with a usable area of around 76 m² forms the living area with living and dining room, kitchen with pantry, veranda, cloakroom, closet and toilet. In the kitchen and other ancillary rooms, the architect planned several built-in cupboards, a loft and bench seats. The kitchen contains a hatch to the dining room.
Upstairs there are three living rooms, a bathroom, a toilet, a hallway, a small kitchen and the stairs to the floor. The bay porch from the ground floor is continued here as a loggia. The rear front carries a protruding balcony on this level.
The top floor of around 50 m² was initially only used as a drying floor, but was later expanded to include two “girls' rooms”. The floors have different room heights, in the basement they are 2.15 m, on the ground floor 3.15 m and on the upper floor 2.80 m.
The entire equipment of the rooms was specified in detail in the building specification. For example, in the basement “a sink with a high, square back wall, enamelled white inside and outside” or for the kitchen “a two-part sink with cupboard base [...], an electric stove with three holes for coal and electric. [...] in white enamel and nickel-plated fittings with oven and roasting tube, thermometer, grill and pan ”. The doors to be installed have also been specified in detail (material, width, air slots, etc.). In coordination with the monument protection authority, the future homeowners could and can make some changes to improve living comfort, for example to replace the combi stove or to have new sanitary facilities installed.
history
The Niederschönenfeld Hausener Irmgard Clausen, daughter of the city inspector G. Clausen from Linden Street 29g had acquired at the beginning of the 1930s a building plot in Frohnau in the Benedictine road and commissioned the architect Felix Sturm with the preparation of draft for an individual home. The architect, who had just completed the Maria Magdalena church in Niederschönhausen , then worked out an extensive project for the "construction of a single-family house [...] in Bln.-Frohnau, Benediktinerstraße 12 (Reinickendorf district)". It consisted of a 25-page building description and an offer form. The client at the time remained unmarried and had no children. So the property came to a new owner in the 1960s. The Schucht family acquired it in 2000 and has been renovating it in small steps since then.
literature
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Master builder for Berlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost , p. 367: Felix Sturm
(The representation contains two major errors: Felix Sturm was not a Bauhaus student and the address of the house is incorrectly given as Benekendorffstraße.)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Justification for monument protection, 1989.
- ↑ a b c d Felix Sturm, architect, Bln.-Pankow, Breitestr. 32: Building description for the construction of a single-family house for Miss Irmgard Clausen, Bln.-Niederschönhausen, Lindenstr. 29g, on their property in Bln.-Frohnau, Benediktinerstraße 12 (Reinickendorf district) ; 25 p., Hectography, no exact date given; owned by the current owner of the property, Joachim Schucht; October 25, 2017.
- ↑ Building regulations , p. 22.
- ↑ a b c d Felix Sturm, architect, Bln.-Pankow, Breitestr. 32: Implementation provisions for the construction of a single-family house for Miss Irmgard Clausen, Bln.-Niederschönhausen, Lindenstr. 29g, 19 p.
- ↑ Otto Wawrziniok: Handbook of material testing for mechanical and civil engineers , brief information on extended cement mortar . In: books.google.de; P. 466.
- ↑ Sepp Heidinger: Advances in Austrian Structural Engineering , Manual of Material Testing for Mechanical and Civil Engineers, etc. a. with representations of EHZ stones , on books.google.de, p. 34; accessed on October 27, 2017.
- ↑ Building regulations , p. 8.
- ↑ Building regulations , p. 18.
- ^ Building regulations , pp. 11–15.
- ↑ Building regulations , p. 9.
- ↑ Building regulations , p. 22.
- ^ Building regulations , pp. 13/14.
- ↑ Building regulations , p. 19.
- ↑ Niederschönhausen> Lindenstrasse 29g . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, IV, p. 2157.
- ↑ Frohnau> Benediktinerstr. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, IV, p. 2480 (Strangely enough, parcels 11 to 21 are (still) designated as construction sites this year).