Sophienhof (Radebeul)

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The Sophienhof , also called Villa Louisenhof , is a villa with a tower in the Oberlößnitz district of the Saxon city of Radebeul , in today's Eduard-Bilz-Straße 21. It was originally located at the beginning of Sophienstrasse , which was expanded by the Ziller brothers at their own expense and which today forms the middle part of Eduard-Bilz-Strasse. Both the Sophienhof and Sophienstrasse are named after the Ziller sister Sophie Eugenia (1853–1874), who died of tuberculosis at an early age.

Sophienhof, on the right the two groups of figures by Ernst March (2009)

description

Sophienhof (2013)

Conceived as a coherent Gruppenbau, today under monument protection standing villa consists of four building structures in the form of a half-story main house, a one and a half storey annexe building, a single-storey connecting building, originally a columned entrance portico had, and the three-storey tower in the main view to the square.

The one and a half storey villa has a mezzanine-like knee floor and a gently sloping gable roof . It is traufständig the square. In front of it is the three-story tower with a belvedere floor and a flat tent roof . Behind the main house is the one-and-a-half-story annex, which is connected by the connecting structure.

The windows are framed by sandstone walls, at the top of the tower they are designed as coupling windows, framed by pilasters and roofs, as well as in the gable of the main house, where they stand between two narrow windows.

The formerly rich plaster structure made of smooth plaster has disappeared, only the former horizontal structure by cornices is now reproduced by plaster strips. The toothed frieze under the tower roof is still original .

Around 1985, a small glass shop was built in front of the connecting structure.

The fence was replaced by a fence that is not very typical of the Zillers, only two small pieces of lancet fence stand directly on the listed group of figures on the street corner.

history

Sophienhof, construction drawing

Around 1877 the Ziller brothers opened up the former Sophienstrasse at their own expense , which after completion was handed over to the rural community of Oberlößnitz. In order to upgrade the street that begins at a small square ( Alvslebenplatz ) or Nizzastraße , Moritz Ziller set up two groups of figures from the Ernst March pottery factory in Charlottenburg at the beginning of the street . The pedestals are integrated into the fencing around the corner properties, as is the case with No. 21, the Sophienhof .

In 1877 the Ziller brothers built the first building on this street, the Sophienhof , a villa with a main view towards the square and a tower. On the west side of the tower, towards the street corner, there used to be a medallion with the bust of Sister Sophie.

Similar buildings

  • Eduard-Bilz-Straße 17: Villa as a group building
  • Eduard-Bilz-Straße 19: Villa as a group building
  • Eduard-Bilz-Straße 21: 1877: Sophienhof (with tower, monument)
  • Eduard-Bilz-Straße 27: 1877: Villa Eduard-Bilz-Straße 27 (monument)
  • Eduard-Bilz-Straße 34: 1882/84: Villa Otto Hennig (monument)
  • Eduard-Bilz-Straße 37: 1878: Rudell house (monument)
  • Pestalozzistraße 39: 1879/1881: Villa Pestalozzistraße 39 (monument, erected by the construction company FW Eisold according to Gustav Ziller's design)

Figure groups at the Sophienhof

View from the western end of Alvslebenplatz to the north of the two groups of figures by Ernst March at the beginning of the former Sophienstrasse , hand-colored postcard from around 1910

The two groups of terracotta figures of the bacchants twining garlands on sandstone pedestals were erected by the Ziller brothers in connection with the construction of the Sophienhof to emphasize the entrance to Sophienstrasse.

  • Western group, condition before restoration, 2006

  • Eastern group, condition before restoration, 2007

Figure group after the restoration in 2011

  • Western group of figures, condition after restoration, 2015

  • Eastern group of figures, condition after restoration, 2012

  • Western group after restoration

  • Eastern group after restoration

literature

Web links

Commons : Sophienhof  - Collection of Images
Commons : Figure groups at the Sophienhof  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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.).
  2. ↑ Thilo Hansel; Markus Hänsel: On the trail of the Ziller brothers in Radebeul. Architectural considerations . Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2008. P. 128 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 18 "  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 38.3"  E