Villa Amicitiae

The Villa Amicitiae is located at Moritzburger Straße 50 in the Niederlößnitz district of the Saxon city of Radebeul . It is one of several buildings that the building contractor Karl Heinrich Claus had built in the vicinity.

Villa Amicitiae

Villa Amicitiae: house name

description

The single-storey villa , now a listed building, is a small, country house-like residential building with a jamb and a saddle roof . In the street view of the plastered building there is a two-storey central projection with a rafter gable . Before the buttress is a massive, polygonal arbor with a balustrade . The inscription AMICITIAE can be found in the gable. (Latin for the dative "friendship"). “Here, too, we find fashion with a period at the end. How the content of the script agrees with the antlers above and the Hubertus symbol remains the client's secret ... ”.

The entrance to the building is at the rear. The house is plastered, the windows are framed by sandstone walls. The enclosure is a picket fence on a concrete pier.

history

Villa Amicitiae (right, 1903). In the middle of the picture on the slope is the rental villa Obere Bergstrasse 82 , above which the water tower, which was built later, cannot yet be seen on the edge of the slope . Top right: the Peace Castle

In August 1898, the fruit trader and building contractor Karl Heinrich Claus applied to have the master builder Hugo Große build a house. The construction work for the villa took place in July 1899.

Further buildings by Karl Heinrich Claus in Niederlößnitz

Shortly beforehand, Claus had a villa built at Moritzburger Strasse 60 . At the same time, the rented villa Moritzburger Strasse 52 was built, and with a delay of about nine months, the rented villa Moritzburger Strasse 54 , all three also by Hugo Große. As early as 1894, Claus had Adolf Neumann build the villa at 45 Hohe Strasse . The rental villa at Humboldtstrasse 3 (master builder Moritz Große ) followed in 1895/1896 and the rental villas at Humboldtstrasse 5 and Humboldtstrasse 7 in 1896/1897 , both by the construction company Gebrüder Große . One of these is the rental villa Robert-Koch-Strasse 3 from 1897/1898.

literature

• Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .

Web links

Commons : Villa Amicitiae  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 27 (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. ↑ Dietrich Lohse: What house names can tell us (part 2). In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, April 2010, accessed on June 16, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Traditional symbol of Saint Hubert : an antler with a crucifix

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 56.8 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 53 ″  E