Villa Ackermann

This article deals with the Villa Ackermann in Leipzig. For the villa in Heilbronn Sontheim see director's villa at Zwirnerei Ackermann .

Villa Ackermann seen from Emil-Fuchs-Straße. The villa, which can still be seen in the background, is the villa of his son-in-law Alfred Roßbach, built 8 years after his own. (2012)

The Villa Ackermann is an upper-class villa of historicism in Leipzig , Lortzingstrasse 19. It stands on the edge of the Waldstrasse district and borders the Rosental park in the northwest of Leipzig city center. It is named after its client, the Leipzig entrepreneur and city councilor Albin Ackermann-Teubner , son-in-law of the founder and from 1853 one of the managing directors of the traditional BG Teubner publishing house . The building is a listed building .

history

Villa Ackermann Contemporary illustration of the front in Lortzingstrasse from "Leipzig and its Buildings" (1892)

Villa Ackermann floor plan from "Leipzig and its buildings" (1892)

The publisher and bookseller Ackermann-Teubner acquired the property directly on the Rosental at the corner of Lortzing- and Zöllnerstraße (today: Emil-Fuchs-Straße) and left the property there for himself and his family between 1862 and 1863 according to the plans of the architect Carl Gustav Aeckerlein build today's villa in the late classical style.

8 years after Ackermann-Teubner had his villa built, in 1870 another son-in-law of the publisher's founder Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner , Adolf Roßbach, who became co-owner of BG Teubner-Verlag in the 1850s and who was married to his daughter Julia, build his own villa, the Villa Adolf Roßbach , at the confluence of Lortzingstraße with Emil-Fuchs-Straße (house number Lortzingstraße 16) .

Villa Ackermann, which was continuously owned by the family between 1871 and 1910, took into account the need for representation of the Ackermann family, who at that time owned one of the city's leading publishing houses and were the focus of social life in Leipzig.

It was a special honor for the house when the Saxon princes Friedrich August , Johann Georg and Max went in and out during their study visit to Leipzig.

The letters AA were affixed to the front of the villa that Albin Ackermann-Teubner had built for himself and his son Alfred Ackermann-Teubner later sold. The monogram was removed after the sale . It has been decorating the wrought-iron gate of Gundorf Palace and Estate near Leipzig ever since .

The villa was extensively renovated by UKB Denkmal AG in 2005 and is now used as an apartment building.

literature

• Friedrich Schulze: History of the Ackermann family from Gödern in the eastern district of Altenburg, 1560–1912. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1912, p. 237. (prepared on behalf of Alfred Ackermann for his son Erich; with family tree)

Web links

Commons : BG Teubner Verlag  - Collection of images

Commons : Villa Albin Ackermann-Teubner  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 48 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 9 ″  E