Robert Bosch House
The Robert Bosch House (occasionally called Villa Bosch ) in Stuttgart is the former residence of the manufacturer Robert Bosch until his death in 1942 and has served as the headquarters of the Robert Bosch Foundation since 1986 , after initially being used by the Americans after the Second World War served as a guest house and later as a consulate for the French . The house is located in the middle of a park at Heidehofstraße 31 in the Gänsheide district in the East district of Stuttgart .
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The Robert-Bosch-Haus was built in 1910/11 by the architects Jakob Früh and Carl Heim for the industrialist Robert Bosch and is considered to be one of the last stately villa buildings of late historicism in Stuttgart. The property has 25 rooms and is listed .
The building is a cube on which a gently sloping hipped roof rests. The influences of the Schinkel School of the 19th century, which are based on models of the Italian early Renaissance of the 15th century, can be seen here. This is particularly illustrated by the Belvedere tower , which is inserted on the northeast side and towers over the property . At the side, the building is framed by a single-storey veranda and bay windows.
The model for the facade design of the villa is the rural villa type, characterized by hierarchical building structures. The high base is made of roughly hewn sandstone . The main floor has finer rustication ashlar . The bel étage is reached via a two-flight staircase that leads into a four-pillar portico . The upper floor is kept simple and clad in sandstone. A low attic storey sits on the upper floor , which is set back, i.e. not flush with the upper floor, and ends with a triangular roof. The floors have different window shapes and sizes. By using reinforced concrete for the ceilings and stairs, the villa already delivers modern construction principles.
The sculptor and jewelry designer Franz Boeres was responsible for the sculptural work on the Robert Bosch House and its surrounding park . He added the existing Art Nouveau elements to the historicist interior of the villa . Bruno Paul , avant-garde of modern functional architecture, designed the dining room.
The villa can be reached from Heidehofstraße via a powerful portal. This was redesigned in 1934 and provided, for example, with the relief of the “Bosch fuse”.
Heidehof house of the Robert Bosch Foundation
The extensive area around Villa Bosch measures 13,000 m². This meant that there was enough space on the property to build a new building that could be used for the purposes of the Robert Bosch Foundation. In the years from 2002 to 2004 the house Heidehof was built in the south-western area of the property . The construction period of three years goes back to a temporary construction freeze, which had to be decided by the Stuttgart Administrative Court for reasons of protection of neighbors . The property was built by Peter Kulka . It stands in the tradition of the classic-modern design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . Meetings, seminars and other events take place in the 3000 m² training center. The building also houses a dining room and a guest casino along with a (catering) terrace.
The landscape architect Peter Kluska designed the open spaces of the site. He not only restored the historic park of the complex, which is protected as a natural monument, by restoring its original shape, but also created a harmonious transition to the new part of the property.
Villa Dillmann
Robert Bosch moved into the Robert Bosch House on Gänsheide, after having lived in the Villa Dillmann until then and from 1893 onwards . The park-like property of Villa Dillmann is located between the approach from Dillmannstraße to Hölderlinstraße on Hölderlinplatz in Stuttgart-Nord . After moving to Gänsheide, Bosch housed the library of the Association for the Promotion of Popular Education , which he founded in 1918 with Theodor Bäuerle and Wolfgang Pfleiderer .
literature
- Rainer Müller: The Robert Bosch House , DVA, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-421-02939-3 .
- Christine Breig: The villa and country house construction in Stuttgart 1830–1930, an overview of the different implementations and changes of the villa construction type in Stuttgart (= publications of the Stuttgart City Archives , Volume 84), Stuttgart / Hohenheim City Archives, Stuttgart / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 (Dissertation University of Stuttgart 1998, 552 pages, with illustrations)
- Martin Wörner, Gilbert Lupfer, Ute Scholz: Architekturführer Stuttgart , 3rd edition, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-496-01290-0 .
- Werner Buthge: From Feuersee to Birkenkopf, forays through the west of Stuttgart , 2nd edition, Schmetterling Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-89657-129-8 .
- Werner Skrentny (Hrsg.), Ralf Arbogast: Stuttgart on foot: 20 district forays through history and the present . 5th edition, Silberburg , Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8425-1163-7 .
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 56 ″ E
- Virtual and interactive 360 ° tour through the historical rooms of the Robert Bosch House and the adjacent park
- The-Bosch-Haus-Heidehof-von-Peter-Kulka
Individual evidence
- ^ Villas of celebrities in Stuttgart: Former residence of the manufacturer Robert Bosch. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . September 2, 2015, accessed February 5, 2016 .
- ^ Robert Bosch House in Stuttgart: Where the spirit of the founder lives. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. July 3, 2014, accessed February 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Breig, p. 244
- ↑ Architecture Guide Stuttgart, p. 108
- ↑ Skrentny, p. 242
- ↑ Construction freeze for the further training center Villa Bosch
- ↑ Robert Bosch Foundation homepage, accessed April 1, 2017
- ↑ Peter Kulka (book presentation on the Heidehof house) on baufachinformation.de, accessed on June 1, 2012
- ^ Peter Kluska: Landscape Architecture: Projects + Competitions 1970–2010 . Hirmer 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-5681-2 , page 176 ff.
- ↑ Werner Buthge, p. 105 ff.