Founder's villa

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The Stiftervilla is a listed villa built by the architect Johann Metz in 1861 ( list entry ) in Kirchschlag near Linz in Upper Austria . It bears the name of the poet Adalbert Stifter , who was a guest here temporarily for relaxation and cure.

history

From 1848 until his death in 1868, Adalbert Stifter lived in the house Untere Donaulände No. 6, today's Stifterhaus , which was built by master builder Johann Metz in 1844. It was also Metz who built the first bourgeois country houses in the increasingly popular resort of Kirchschlag. After building Kirchschlag No. 25 on the southern edge of the Rudolfswald in 1858, he built a second villa on the southern edge of the Schauerwald in 1861, the upper or small Metz Villa at No. 27 (in the geographically rather than chronologically numbered place now Kirchschlag 38). During his stays in Kirchschlag in the last years of his life, Adalbert Stifter was often a guest at his friend Metz, hence the name reference to the villa. In 1873 Metz sold the villa to Camillo Starhemberg, which is why the Starhemberg coat of arms was attached to the southern facade of the house. In 1917 the villa came into the possession of a Linz family.

In 2004 the municipality of Kirchschlag acquired the building and the property and used it as an event location on the occasion of Stifter's 200th birthday. In 2005, Stifter's bronze cast from the Stifterdenkmal in Linz was also awarded to Kirchschlag, and a copy of the cast has been sitting on a bench in front of the Stiftervilla in Kirchschlag ever since. After the dry rot appeared , the villa was completely renovated by the architects Josef Ullmann and Christoph Weidinger. 150 years after Stifter's death, the multifunctional cultural center was officially opened on June 24, 2018, with actor Thomas Kasten reading excerpts from Stifter's winter letters from Kirchschlag .

Web links

Commons : Stiftervilla Kirchschlag  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Upper Austria News: "Keyword: The villa in the donors went in and out" of August 6, 2010
  2. ^ Franz Pfeffer : Kirchschlag. The mountain village on the Breitenstein. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Vol. 15, 1961, pp. 201-252, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  3. ↑ Stifter-Orte on linztourismus.at with a picture of the two bronze casts in front of the Stiftervilla

Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 51.2 "  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 34.9"  E