Palais Lanz
| Palais Lanz | ||
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 Photo of Villa Lanz in 1917 |
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| place | Mannheim - Schwetzingerstadt / Oststadt | |
| architect | Eugène Saint-Ange | |
| Client | Karl Lanz | |
| Construction year | 1907-1913 | |
| building-costs | 3.5 million marks | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 29 '2.4 " N , 8 ° 29' 9.6" E | |
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The Palais Lanz (also Lanz-Villa ) is a representative building in Mannheim's Oststadt , which was built from 1907 to 1913 on behalf of the engineer and entrepreneur Karl Lanz .
location
The Palais Lanz is located between the Neckar and the Augustaanlage in Mannheim's Oststadt. The area around the palace is characterized by villas from the Wilhelminian era . Other sights of Mannheim such as the water tower , the Christ Church and the Mannheim telecommunications tower are in the immediate vicinity of the Palais Lanz. At the time of completion, the building was on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city and bordered on undeveloped fields in the east.
description
The building was built according to plans by the French architect Eugène Saint-Ange (1848–1914) and has significant parallels to buildings of comparable size in Paris . Under the sign of the Franco-German hereditary enmity propagated at the time, contemporaries criticized the building as an expression of a lack of patriotism because of the French style . The four-storey building is decorated with elements of classicism , including the portico in front of the frontal main entrance of the building as well as numerous cornices and pilasters . The fourth floor of the building is above the cornice and is asMezzanine floor designed with a lower height than the lower floors.
The interior of the building is characterized by elaborate wood carving and a fine stucco ceiling . In particular, the representative rooms on the ground floor that have been preserved show the complex design of the building to this day. Due to renovation work since its completion, large parts of the building differ from its original appearance, in particular the roof construction, the rear side of the facade and the interior design on the upper floors have undergone considerable changes since then.
Building history
In 1903 Karl Lanz and the industrialist daughter Gisella Giulini married, in 1905, after the death of his father Heinrich Lanz , Karl Lanz took over the management of the agricultural machinery manufacturer Heinrich Lanz AG , one of the largest companies in the region. The outstanding position of the Lanz family in the Mannheim upper middle class was documented by the construction of the palace. In size and cost, the building exceeded all other private houses in Mannheim. The Palais Lanz is still regarded as the largest private house in Mannheim.
The death of Karl Lanz in 1921 and the economic aftermath of the First World War forced his widow Gisella Lanz to sell the building, which she offered to the Deutsche Reichspost in the winter of 1922 . The Reichspost acquired the palace and the Lanz family had to vacate it by April 1, 1923. Gisella Lanz was one of the first builders in Mannheim to commission the construction of a much smaller villa in the immediate vicinity of the Palais Lanz, where she lived after the palace was sold. The palace was then used as a telegraph office and, for this purpose, significantly redesigned, especially in the area of the roof.
Another change to the building meant the completion of an extension in 1956, which made it necessary to redesign the rear facade of the palace. In the decades that followed, the building was often empty, some of it was owned by Deutsche Telekom , but was not used permanently. As part of the sale of the Telekom subsidiary DeTe-Immobilien to the Austrian Strabag , the Palais Lanz also changed hands again, but was sold to a group of private investors in 2011. An extensive renovation of the building began in 2018; Mixed use for office, event and catering rooms is planned.
literature
- Tobias Möllmer: The Palais Lanz in Mannheim. French architecture in the German Empire = contributions to Mannheim architecture and building history, Volume 5, Mannheim 2008. ISBN 978-3-926260-73-4
- Tobias Möllmer: French architecture import: Palais Lanz and Villa Bohn . In: Ferdinand Werner : Mannheim villas. Architecture and living culture in the squares and Oststadt = contributions to Mannheim's architecture and building history, Volume 6. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-88462-289-6 , pp. 347–362.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Monika Ryll: Villa Karl and Gisella Lanz in Mannheim-Oststadt. Rhein-Neckar-Industriekultur eV, July 2, 2019, accessed on October 30, 2020 .
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^ Gerhard Bühler: A touch of Paris. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . September 10, 2012, accessed October 30, 2020 . Mannheim's "second castle". In: Mannheimer Morgen . April 22, 2017, accessed October 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Lanz Karl Wilhelm Konstantin Philipp - detail page - LEO-BW. In: Discover regional studies online - Baden-Württemberg. Accessed October 31, 2020 .
- ↑ DeTe-Immobilien: Telekom sells subsidiary to Austrians. In: Der Spiegel. July 23, 2008, accessed October 31, 2020 .
- ^ City Archives Mannheim (ed.): Oststadt - Past and Present . Mannheim.