Meyerburg
The Meyerburg , also known as Landsitz Meyer , is a listed residential building at Mohrenstrasse 5 in the Niederlößnitz district of the Saxon city of Radebeul . It was built in 1910/1911 on behalf of the Dresden factory owner Otto Meyer based on designs by the renowned Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner .
description
The large, castle-like country house in "strict Art Nouveau ", listed as a particularly representative example of this style in the Dehio manual , is located on the slope edge, seen from the valley to the right of the Mätressenschlösschen . It was realized on six plots of the Altfriedstein villa colony by the local construction company FW Eisold .
The two-storey building sits on a high quarry stone terrace and is characterized by two kinked gables looking towards the valley, surmounted by a striking square tower with a tent roof . The poorly structured plastered building shows some figurative building sculptures , at the top of the tower there are keystones above the windows that bend up the eaves . Wolf's detailed description of the building "at least proves its unique position among the 15 villa projects implemented here [in the villa colony] by Schilling & Graebner". The construction costs of around 200,000 marks were similar to those of the Luther Church, which was designed by the same duo of architects .
The plot of Meyer castle is located in the conservation area Historic vineyard landscape Radebeul and in the conservation area Lößnitz .
history
After just four years, the villa was foreclosed. From 1917 onwards, the "Meyerburg" changed hands several times, including in 1919 the Privy Councilor Max Barbe gen. Richards. In 1927 it was bought by the Philadelphia merchant Richard Ernst Schletter. According to the address book, Walter Helbig , who holds a doctorate in law and who was then registered as the owner in 1940, lived there in 1937 on the first floor under Schletter .
Helbig used the “Meyerburg” to house his private art collection, which was one of the largest of its kind in all of Germany. The collection included paintings, furniture, other furnishings, porcelain, glass, books and other items.
After Helbig had given his property to an administrative employee in Karl-Marx-Stadt on June 9, 1971 , he was allowed to move from the GDR to the Federal Republic together with his art collection . Shortly afterwards, the administrative employee transferred the property to what is known as public property , i.e. acting as a straw man , the process is consequently to be assessed as a covert expropriation. On December 22nd of that year, the Dresden District Council bought the “Meyerburg”, which then served as the boarding school of the “Edwin Hoernle” institute for teacher training .
When the tower head was renewed and the roof was re-roofed in 1974, a copper sleeve was found which contained, among other things, a document handwritten by the client's wife in 1911, in which she described the construction process and documented her "hope for many happy years in the newly built villa" . The participating employees of the Institute for Teacher Education "Edwin Hoernle" added various current daily newspapers, money and boarding school regulations to the content of the role.
After the political change, the "Meyerburg" was transferred back.
literature
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
- Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
- Tobias Michael Wolf: The villa colony on Altfriedstein . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2006.
- Tobias Michael Wolf: The Altfriedstein villa colony in Niederlößnitz / Radebeul: the work of the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner . Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-7587-7 .
Web links
- Manfred Richter: Meyerburg. In: Niederlößnitz from yesteryear. Retrieved August 29, 2011 .
- Manfred Richter: Altfriedstein (street). In: Niederlößnitz from yesteryear. Retrieved January 24, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 27 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
- ↑ Barbara Bechter, Wiebke Fastenrath u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony I, Dresden District . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 730-739 .
- ↑ Tobias Michael Wolf: The Altfriedstein villa colony in Niederlößnitz / Radebeul: the work of the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner . Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-7587-7 , pp. 104-111 .
- ^ Frank Andert: 100 years of "Meyerburg". (PDF; 96 kB) Part 50. In: Kötzschenbrodaer stories. 2011, accessed August 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, City of Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Saxony. ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, p. 219 as well as enclosed map .
- ↑ a b c Manfred Richter: Meyerburg. In: Niederlößnitz from yesteryear. Retrieved August 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Tobias Michael Wolf: The villa colony on the Altfriedstein . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2006.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 57 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 43.3" E