Hofmann Villa

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The Hofmann-Villa , also Lindenhaus or Villa Lindenhaus , is a representative villa-like country house in the Kötzschenbroda district of the Saxon town of Radebeul . The building in the neo-baroque style , listed as an example of this style in Dehio , is located on Ledenweg 2a / b north of Meißner Straße , which is now a listed building, along with the outbuilding, gate entrance and park .

Hofmann villa between the old trees, view from Meißner Straße

description

Hofmann-Villa: Side entrance from Ledenweg

The two-storey plastered building, facing the park and Meißner Strasse, has a symmetrical facade with a central projection , in front of which there is a semicircular sill with pilasters . In front of this is the terrace with a bowl fountain with a figure. The facades are structured with stucco decoration and corner pilaster strips , they stand over a base made of stone .

The villa has a high mansard roof with a drum-like belvedere on the ridge. On the street side there is a large dwelling in the roof with a triangular gable, in which a entwined cartouche with two putti can be seen. The cartridge shows a hand holding three lightning bolts, a symbol of the client's activity in the field of high voltage.

At the back of the building are two side projections, between which there is a veranda with pilasters. Another veranda faces east into the park-like garden. The property is accessed from the west from Ledenweg, where there is a gatehouse.

In the garden there is now an old, tall tree population of linden trees , after which the house is also called Lindenhaus . The property is considered a work of landscape and garden design . As a cultural center with gatehouse and gardens , the property was already a listed building during the GDR era .

  • Söller with well system

  • Fountain figure

  • Outbuildings

  • Gate system and old trees

history

The entry for the property begins in the Radebeul house index in 1872 as Meißner Straße 14 in Kötzschenbroda owned by Heinrich Franz Ferdinand Breymann as the owner of the villa, a Prussian first lieutenant and, from 1873, the father of the future genealogist Hans Breymann . He owned a residential building with a vineyard, approx. 104 years old “and in pretty good condition (!)”, Plus an approx. 31 year old salon building “in completely good condition” and an approx. 104 year old stable building “with saddled strong brick size […], also in good condition ”and an approximately 34-year-old greenhouse with a 23-year-old extension. These were supplemented by a shed, a second side building with a horse stable and coach house, "also about 104 years old and everything in good condition".

With the construction of the Ledenweg as a diagonal cut between Gradsteg on Meißner Straße and Schulstraße on Heinrich-Zille-Straße to the north of it, the property got the last number because of the horseshoe numbering beginning on the west side and was categorized as Ledenweg 7. In 1886 Breymann , who lived in the Lindenhaus , was listed in the address book as senior tax inspector; In 1897, after the death of his wife Katharina, born Swinburne, the address book showed him as a senior tax inspector living in Eibenstock and as a landlord to Lieutenant Colonel ret. D. Ernst von Egidy.

The 1910 address book documents Axel von Kirchbach as the house owner. He was followed by the Kötzschenbroda factory owner and later honorary citizen of the city of Kötzschenbroda, Johannes Wilhelm Hofmann . Hofmann was the founder and owner of the electrical fittings factory JWH .

The neo-baroque villa was built in 1915/1916 as a "single-family home" for Johannes Wilhelm Hofmann based on designs by Felix Sommer ( Adolf Neumann's successor ).

Hofmann had a new building erected to the north in 1934/35, the Wilhelm Hofmann single-family house (Ledenweg 8) , which is also listed today . The Villa Frikell of the magician Wiljalba Frikell had previously stood there at the address Ledenweg 6 . In 1935 the Ledenweg breakthrough and the Schulstraße in Niederlößnitz were merged to form a continuous Ledenweg. As a result, when the site was converted to orientation numbering, the property to the east on Meißner Strasse was given number 2, which is still valid today.

Hofmann was expropriated in 1953 and his villa became the seat of the FDJ district leadership, while it was also used as the Radebeul youth club .

In the early 1990s, the property was transferred back and renovated. Today it serves as an office building. The RKW Sachsen was housed there until the beginning of the 2000s .

The company health insurance company BKK Medicus is currently located there and, after the merger with the BKK Verkehrsbau Union, the ServiceCenter Radebeul of the Berlin-based company health insurance company.

The Radebeul-West City Library has been located at Ledenweg 2 in a new building northeast behind the villa since 1996.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hofmann-Villa  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 23 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul).
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ^ Dietrich Lohse: Signs between art and commerce . In: Radebeuler Monatshefte eV (Ed.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . November 2013.
  4. ↑ a b 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 .
  5. ↑ from the Radebeul house index of the Radebeul City Archives
  6. ↑ Gottfried Thiele: Radebeul. 1949-1989 . In: The series of pictures from the GDR . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-89702-490-X , p. 20 ( online version ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 28 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 11"  E