Ohlendorff's villa
The Ohlendorff villa from 1929 is located in Hamburg-Volksdorf . The listed villa is located between the street Im alten Dorfe and Ohlendorffs Park. The upper-class residential and representative building from the first third of the 20th century has been owned by the non-profit foundation Ohlendorff'sche Villa since 2014 .
Previous construction
Heinrich von Ohlendorff , who became rich through the guano trade , leased land between Volksdorf and Ahrensburg as a hunting area in 1867 . In 1878 he bought three farms in Volksdorf and had a hunting and summer house built there from 1879 to 1880 on the site of today's villa. The architect was Martin Haller .
After purchasing additional land, the building was converted into a manor house by 1885. Next to this main building, built in the Swiss style, there was a guest house on the west side. To the east of the manor house was the manor with cow stalls and barns. At that time, the park behind the house was laid out in the style of an English landscape park. The driveway to the villa that still exists today also dates from this time.
Heinrich von Ohlendorff died in July 1928 and left the estate to his youngest son Hans. He had the manor demolished in September of the same year.
Ohlendorff's villa from 1929
In place of the old manor house, the current villa was built between 1928 and 1929 by the architects Erich Elingius and Gottfried Schramm . The building is built in the neoclassical style. The architects had to combine the needs of a single-family home with the representational needs of the Ohlendorff family. At first glance, the front of the building is axially symmetrical, but due to the different functions of the rooms inside, the wall area to the right of the portal is actually somewhat smaller. The portal itself protrudes accentuated and bears the appearance balcony . Decorative elements were used sparingly. The basement is characterized by arched windows arranged in groups of three, while rectangular windows were chosen on the upper floor. What both types of windows have in common is the framing with chiselled stone . Both the balcony on the front and the terrace on the back are accessible via French windows. The wooden roof cornice protrudes far and is decorated with a toothed frieze. Unlike the classic straight shape, it has rounded arches at the top. This frieze is taken up again on the chimney heads . The original facade color was white, not pink.
The garden side of the building is characterized by a conservatory porch. There was originally no direct access from there to the park. The terrace extension with the stairs was only added in 2014 with the establishment of the coffee house on the ground floor.
inside rooms
The interiors reflect the original separation of the rooms into the representative areas on the ground floor and the private rooms on the upper floor. When you enter the house, you first come to an oval vestibule. From the inside, the portal is surrounded by a crenellated ribbon and the inscription * HABE * ALWAYS * SOMETHING * GOOD * IN * SINN * . The floor of the vestibule and the adjoining stair hall are covered with Solnhofen slabs . The reception room with sloping corners is connected to the stairwell. From here the winter garden could be reached straight ahead, on the right the library, which is also used as a music room, and on the left the dining room. These rooms all belong to the coffee house today, although the library is now also a public bookcase and is used as an event location in the evening.
In the stairwell there is a flag with the coat of arms of the Ohlendorff family, probably created in 1885. Heinrich and Albertus Ohlendorff acquired this coat of arms after they were raised to the nobility.
The bedroom and dressing room with its own bathroom and an octagonal breakfast room were on the upper floor. The latter can now be used as a so-called club room, as can two other rooms of roughly the same size, for courses, meetings or small celebrations. In the western area there was access to the guest wing with two rooms and a bathroom. This area can be reached via two steps. The reason for the raised floor here is the music room below, in which one wanted to achieve better acoustics through the higher ceiling. In the eastern area, a hallway leads to further rooms and to a narrow staircase, via which the servant's apartment in the attic was accessible.
The basement, which has normal windows on the garden side due to the hillside location, today offers all the necessary rooms for a confectionery , in which the cakes and pies of the local coffee house are made.
Entrance door from the inside
Stairs to the upper floor
Winter garden
The coat of arms of the von Ohlendorff family
Use of the building in the past and today
Hans von Ohlendorff sold the building in 1953 to the city of Hamburg, which it used as the local office for Volksdorf until 2006 . At the initiative of the Kulturkreis Walddörfer eV, the property, which according to the city's ideas should be privatized, was placed under monument protection and the city was obliged by a public petition to keep the villa for public use. After years of negotiations, the Kulturkreis managed to finance the Ohlendorff villa as a cultural and meeting place for the district by buying the building and the property in 2013 by the Frank Group. The purchase was tied to the condition that the building had to be renovated in accordance with a listed building and then handed over to the “Stiftung Ohlendorff'sche Villa” established for this purpose by the cultural group. The primary interest of the Frank Group was on the property east of the villa, on which three town villas are being built. The renovation was completed in 2014 and the Ohlendorff villa reopened on August 30, 2014. Today the villa is home to the Viennese coffeehouse “Die Villa”, the day care center of Kindergarten Volksdorf eV and several conference rooms on the upper floor.
Web links
- Homepage of the Ohlendorff'sche Villa Foundation
- Homepage of the coffee house "Die Villa"
- Photo of the old manor house from 1880 from the northwest
- Photo of the old manor house from 1880 from the south
Individual evidence
- ^ Ohlendorffs Park. In: treffpunkt-volksdorf.de. January 6, 2015, accessed January 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Full name: Heinrich Hans von Ohlendorff, see Elisabeth Ohlendorff. In: Franklin Kopitzsch: Hamburgische Biografie Vol. 2, Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , S. 304. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ^ Building history - The Ohlendorff villa. (No longer available online.) In: ohlendorffsche.de. December 23, 2014, archived from the original on May 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ohlendorff'sche Villa flies its flag - The Ohlendorff'sche Villa. In: ohlendorffsche.de. December 16, 2013, accessed January 6, 2015 .
- ^ M. Suhr: First evening event in the Kultur-Villa Ohlendorff. (No longer available online.) In: volksdorf-journal.de. Archived from the original on January 6, 2015 ; accessed on January 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reference to use as a local office until 2006
- ↑ wuzonline: Opening of Ohlendorff'schen Villa - WUZ. In: wuzonline.de. August 29, 2014, accessed January 6, 2015 .
- ^ Edgar S. Hasse: Ohlendorff'sche Villa: from the local office to the foundation. In: Abendblatt.de . August 6, 2013, accessed January 6, 2015 .
- ^ Opening of the Ohlendorff villa as a cultural and meeting place in Volksdorf ( memento from November 30, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) In: stadtkultur-hh.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '54.4 " N , 10 ° 9' 57.9" E