Villa Söhnlein-Pabst
The Villa Söhnlein-Pabst in the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden was built between 1903 and 1906 by the Zurich architects Pflegehard and Haefeli for the sparkling wine manufacturer Friedrich Wilhelm Söhnlein (see Söhnlein Rheingold sparkling wine cellar ) on Warmen Damm ( Paulinenstrasse 7 ). In order to give his American wife Emma Pabst (see the Pabst Brewing Company brewery dynasty ) a little sense of home, the villa was planned based on the model of the White House in Washington . That is why it is also called the White House .
This fact was probably one of the reasons why the American military authorities used the villa from 1945 to 1990, most recently as the headquarters of the site. From 1995 it was owned by the State of Hesse .
At the end of the 1990s there was talk of accommodating the new Hessian State Chancellery here , which has since been housed in the former Hotel Rose on Kranzplatz and opened there in September 2004.
After that, the organizers of Nitefuel tried in early 2005 to use the orphaned villa as a new hotspot for Wiesbaden's nightlife. However, the owner, the State of Hessen, had decided to sell the property after several foreign governments had shown interest in the property as a consulate seat.
The building contractor and developer Willi Müller bought the villa at the end of 2005 and had it renovated from 2005 to 2009. Müller and his family live on the upper floors, on the ground floor a son and daughter ran the Café Weißes Haus until 2010 . Since 2010 the café can only be rented for events and is otherwise empty. The rest of the house is used privately by the family.
Individual evidence
- ^ FR-Online, July 10, 2009, Söhnlein-Villa - The White House of Wiesbaden
- ^ Website of the café, archive link ( Memento from November 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 53 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 53" E