Schweizerhaus (Alexisbad)

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The Schweizerhaus was a monument in the Alexisbad district of the city of Harzgerode in the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt . It was destroyed in World War II.

location

Park at the approximate former location of the Schweizerhaus, 2017
Tool shed, 2015

The building was located in the southern part of Alexisbad between today's Kreisstraße and the Selke . Today there is a park at the former location.

Architecture and history

The villa was built in 1822 as a ducal villa in the Swiss style, possibly based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . It served as the summer home of the ducal family of the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg around Alexius Friedrich Christian and their guests. The building shaped the appearance of the Alexisbad spa.

During the last days of the Second World War, the villa was hit by American troops and burned down. The ruin was later demolished. Only a tool shed that originally belonged to the villa remained .

literature

  • Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Monuments in World War II , Volume 2, Henschel Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , page 328.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Eckardt (editor), Fates of German Monuments in World War II , Volume 2, Henschel Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-926642-24-6 , page 328
  2. ↑ Schinkel's draft for a Swiss house, whether in Alexisbad, is questionable.
  3. ↑ Falko Grubitzsch in Georg Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 4
  4. ↑ Sigrid Elstermann, Thomas Nürnberg, Insights into the history of the health resort Alexisbad , 2008, page 32

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 56.1 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 0.4 ″  E