Rathenaustraße 4 (Worms)

View from the street Am Bergkloster

View from Rathenaustraße

The Rathenaustraße 4 in Worms is a villa , particularly by one under the sill extending copy of parts of the Parthenon stands out. The building is a listed building .

Geographical location

The villa is located on a corner plot at the intersection of Rathenaustraße and the street Am Bergkloster , opposite the Wormser (formerly: Städtisches Spiel- und Festhaus), so it is also visually prominent.

building

The building has three more floors above the ground floor and is covered with a hipped roof. The second and third floors each step back a little. The main facade facing the street Am Bergkloster is designed symmetrically around a rounded, two-storey bay window with three window axes, the roof of which forms a balcony on the second floor. There are two window axes on either side of the bay window. The side view of Rathenaustraße is designed asymmetrically, but here is the entrance. The most striking decorative element today is the circumferential band of copies of the Parthenon frieze between the second and third floors. Originally, the areas between the windows on the first floor were designed with sgraffito , which showed a geometric pattern.

Villa Dietler in Freiburg im Breisgau

The Parthenon frieze is a copy of the original in reinforced concrete on a scale of 1: 1. It consists of 16 individual panels that were inserted into the wall during the construction of the house - mostly in groups of three. It is not known where the records came from. For example, the Glyptothek in Munich supplied such casts - also in concrete . There was something similar in the Heylshof in Darmstadt (destroyed in World War II) or at the Villa Dietler in Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

The villa was designed in 1912/13 for the doctor Walter Armknecht by the local, regionally renowned architects Georg Rohr & Ludwig Bruckmann . In the decades that followed, the house lost part of its original decoration, but the Parthenon frieze was retained and restored. The building is a cultural monument due to the monument protection law of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

literature

• Irene Spille: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 10 = city of Worms. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1992, ISBN 978-3-88462-084-7 , p. 138.
• Ferdinand Werner : The long way to new building . Volume 2: cement and artificial stone. The triumph of the imagination . Worms 2016, ISBN 978-3-88462-372-5 .

Remarks

1. ^ In Werner, p. 524, incorrectly stated as "Rathenaustraße 6".
2. ↑ In Spille, incorrectly described as "two-story".
3. ↑ Maria-Theresia-Strasse 8.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner, p. 524, fig. 820.
2. ↑ Werner, p. 525.
3. ↑ Werner, p. 526.
4. ↑ Werner, p. 441.
5. ↑ Werner, pp. 524f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '52 "  N , 8 ° 21' 24.6"  E