Villa Agnes

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The Villa Agnes , also called Villa Petersdorf , is located in the Oberlößnitz district of the Saxon town of Radebeul , at Lößnitzgrundstraße 2 (formerly Nizzastraße 13). The house, built by the Ziller brothers in 1879, was the third (rented) Radebeul residence of the writer Karl May from 1891 to 1895 . From here he moved with his wife Emma into the purchased Villa Shatterhand .

Villa Agnes, garden side in the south; with entrance gate as Nizzastraße 13 (2015)

description

Villa Agnes, pavilion with a view of the similar neighboring houses
Villa Nizzastraße 11 and Villa Agnes, architectural drawing from 1879

The arbor together under preservation properties, cottage-type Villa is a two-story building on a Syenitsockel with sandstone and replaced with a very shallow saddle roof , which by wooden acroteria is crowned. Due to its structure and plastering, the building can be stylistically assigned to late classicism, with its high ground floor and comparatively low upper floor referring to Greek models.

The main view of the building faces south towards Nizzastrasse, it is also the view of the garden. To the left of the main building is a flat, one-and-a-half-storey auxiliary building with a flat roof and the former entrance, which is connected to the adjacent building at Nizzastraße 11, which is mirrored on the property boundary. In contrast to Nizzastraße 11, Villa Agnes is followed by another two-storey auxiliary building with a very flat gable roof, the gable of which is at a right angle to the main building.

On the right side of the main building there is a polygonal, single-storey extension with a mezzanine on top, which has only small window openings under the protruding, flat hipped roof . In front of this building to the south there is a large veranda with an exit on top. Behind the extension to the north is a narrow, two-story porch. At the rear of the main building there is a söller in the middle with today's entrance, on top a covered exit with a wooden railing.

The smoothly plastered group of buildings is structured by sandstone walls. The window parapets on the ground floor have blind balustrades with terracotta balusters, and triangular gable roofs are located above the windows. The lower windows on the upper floor lie between two cornices that run around the entire building and are framed on both sides by plaster pilasters.

The pavilion-like, octagonal gazebo with wooden bar grids stands in the place of the viewing hill or corner hill at the corner of the property at the intersection. It has a Welsche copper cap with a tip and a weather vane. There is a bowl fountain in the garden. The edging of the property consists partly of syenite quarry stone walls, which have several segment-arched, barred openings just north of the gazebo.

history

Villa Agnes, entrance side in the north
Sculpture “Flora with Putto” by Burkhart Ebe on Hörningplatz in front of the rear of Villa Agnes in the wintry backlight

The Serkowitz master builder Moritz Ziller applied in February 1879 for his own account to build on the corner property at Nizzastraße 13 (today Lößnitzgrundstraße 2) together with the neighboring property at Nizzastraße 11. After approval in March 1879, the plan was changed in November, due to which, in mirror image, an additional single-storey outbuilding as a people's room, laundry room and for the storage of firewood was applied directly on the property boundary together with the neighboring property. The building was completed in 1880.

From April 8, 1891 to December 1895, the writer Karl May rented the house, still at Nizzastraße 13, from Dresden's Friedrich Wilhelm Sauerzapf, before buying the Villa Shatterhand , also built by the Ziller brothers, right behind the recently completed Luther Church . Many of his books were written in the Villa Agnes . In May 1891 the villa was broken into and, among other things, May's notebook was stolen. This could be ensured again when the criminal offender was arrested a little later. However, May barricaded himself on the property. Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld , who visited May later that year to discuss the publication of the collected travel novels, later recalled: “We went to his apartment. Immediately I, who came from cozy southern Germany, was put into a mood of dangers and their encounter. After all, the whole property was enclosed by a wooden shed with iron spikes protruding from the edge. You couldn't see inside from the outside. And the garden door and house were firmly closed and locked again after we entered. "

Around 1900 an octagonal gazebo was erected at the corner of the property at the intersection.

In 1902 and 1903, the owner Richard Barchewitz von Josephi had the main building remodeled in the north as well as the annex to the building.

In 1910, the following owner, director Carl Nauels, added a polygonal porch and a veranda to the garden to the east.

Villas of the same type

literature

Web links

Commons : Villa Agnes  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the address book of Dresden and suburbs. 1915. Part VI, p. 398 (Grundstrasse 2).
  2. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 23 (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.).
  3. ^ Kerstin Dietze: Villa gardens in Radebeul . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2001.
  4. ↑ according to the information board at the entrance to the property
  5. ↑ a b 'Villa Agnes' in the Karl May Wiki
  6. ^ Biographical notes on Karl Friedrich May (The Years 1875–1912): The Villa Agnes is listed at 13 Nizzastraße .
  7. ^ Hans-Dieter Steinmetz: Hikes in Radebeul

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 48 ″  E