Lössnitz Castle

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Lössnitz Castle is the name that the Oberlößnitz naturopath Friedrich Eduard Bilz gave to the main building (Kurhaus II) of his Bilz sanatorium , which still exists today . It is located in the Radebeul district of Oberlößnitz on a section of the Albertsberg vineyard , at Eduard-Bilz-Straße 55. Today, like the two neighboring former spa houses, the building serves as a residential complex.

Lössnitz Castle
Bilz Sanatorium 1897, in the foreground right: Lössnitz Castle
Lössnitz Castle , east side view, picture postcard around 1910

description

The two-winged building mentioned by Bilz Schloss Lössnitz is with the main view to the south, the side wing looks to the east on the vineyard. The design comes from the Dresden architects Oscar Wend & Paul Eger, the implementation planning from the Ziller brothers . They designed a four-storey spa house in the Swiss style with facing bricks, the facade facing south received gallery-like wooden balconies over the entire area. In the middle of the roof sits a lattice tower with a hood, a lantern attachment and a pointed helmet as well as a clock, on the sides of the building are corner projections with half- hip gables and turrets. A large terrace extends to the south.

Inside there was a representatively decorated entrance hall with Ionic wall pilasters , console friezes and a coffered ceiling . In addition, rich stucco decorations adorned the rooms.

history

Bilz sanatorium, complete facility around 1900
Bilz Sanatorium Schloss Lössnitz (2008)

In 1890 Bilz moved from Dresden to Oberlößnitz. There he had bought the property at Strakenweg 86 (today Eduard-Bilz-Straße 53) from Viennese privateer Richard Strubell on a section of the Albertsberg vineyard above Haus Albertsberg . In the existing classical building, which was given a dwelling with exposed balconies by the Radebeul architect Carl Käfer , he opened a small sanatorium for his naturopathic facility (later Kurhaus I, today Eduard-Bilz-Straße 53) for initially 15 patients ( Bilz-Sanatorium ).

Since this building quickly became too small, Bilz had Kurhaus II, the so-called Lössnitz Castle, built to the east following Kurhaus I by 1895 . From 1896 the bathhouse (Kurhaus III, today Eduard-Bilz-Straße 57) was added to the north behind Kurhaus II at a 45 degree angle.

On December 12, 1893, he submitted the building application for a new sanatorium, which would later become the main building for up to 70 patients. The building permit was issued on November 3, 1894, the building inspection took place on September 5, 1895. At the rear of the building there were and still are many smaller additions, which were changed by them almost every year according to plans by the Oberlößnitz brothers.

The Bilz Sanatorium existed until 1941, when it was confiscated by the Wehrmacht and Lössnitz Castle became a military hospital, and the Soviets confiscated it at the end of the Second World War.

During the GDR era, it served as a boarding school and then stood empty for a long time. After the renovation of the listed building in the 2000s, residential units are now located there.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schloss Lössnitz  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 107 f .
  2. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 14 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 39 "  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 36.5"  E