Villa Andreae

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Villa Andreae 1899
Villa Andreae seen from the castle

The Villa Andreae is a listed residential and office building, which is characteristic of the townscape of Königstein im Taunus due to its secluded location on the top of the Gaisberg opposite Königstein Castle .

history

The Villa Andreae was built in 1891 for the Frankfurt banker Albert Andreae de Neufville . The architect was the royal building officer Franz von Hoven (1842–1924). The house has 29 rooms and 1520 square meters of living and usable space.

Around the house there was a park with an area of ​​20,000 m², which was laid out by the garden architect Heinrich Siesmayer .

At the foot of the Gaisberg at the eastern end of Theresenstrasse there was a stable building with a coachman's and porter's apartment, at the western end of Theresenstrasse there is still a car garage with an apartment on the upper floor; There was a fish pond in the area between these buildings. A former gardener's house still stands on Herrnwaldstrasse at the same level as the main palace-like building. On the property Fuchstanzstr. 18 there is still a pavilion with what was left of the former enclosure of Villa Andreae.

Albert Andreae de Neufville sold the house in 1927. During the Second World War, a military hospital was set up there from 1942. From 1946 the Protestant Association for Inner Mission was first the leaseholder and then the owner of the building. From 1946 to 1987, Villa Andreae housed a club's student dormitory.

In 2009, the villa served as an outdoor backdrop for the youth film Hanni & Nanni .

Jürgen Schneider

In 1987 the real estate entrepreneur Jürgen Schneider bought the monument for 5 million DM and had it extensively renovated for 30 million DM. He used it from 1989 until his sensational bankruptcy of billions in 1994 as the representative headquarters of his real estate group. After Schneider's bankruptcy and flight, Villa Andreae was sold to the new owner, the software entrepreneur Hartmut Lademacher , in October 1997 . The property escaped a foreclosure auction because the highest bid of DM 9.5 million and the estimated value of DM 15 million were too far apart. After Lademacher relocated his company headquarters to Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , the property was offered for sale at the end of 2009 for 9.8 million euros. In early 2016, Hong Kong businessman Zhu Weiping acquired the property.

photos

  • Postcard (early 20th century)

  • Villa Andreae - driveway 1.jpg
  • Villa Andreae - Entrance.JPG
  • Villa Andreae - Bauplastik.JPG
  • Villa Andreae - detached garage.JPG
  • Villa Andrea hangabwaerts, from the south, close-up.JPG

  • Villa Andreae, seen from the castle (1974)

Web links

Commons : Villa Andreae  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allusion to Römer and Rententurm in FAZ from July 25, 2017, page 38
  2. ↑ Journal “Architektonische Rundschau” No. 15, year 1899, no. 4, 2, plate 27. It was reprinted in 1996 in: Angelika Baeumerth: Taunusvillen der Jahrhundertwende; in: Yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis 1996, p. 71
  3. ↑ Beate Großmann-Hofmann, Hans-Curt Köster: Königstein im Taunus: History and Art ; Königstein ( Langewiesche publishing house ), 2010; ISBN 978-3-7845-0778-1 , pp. 104 f., 114, 117 u. 136 f.
  4. ↑ as in note 2, p. 119 f.
  5. ^ Villa Andreae ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ WORLD: Jürgen Schneider releases funds in Geneva . In: THE WORLD . February 9, 1996 ( welt.de [accessed October 15, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Taunuszeitung from January 2, 2010, p. 19, bild.de
  8. ↑ Torsten Weigelt: In love with the villa of the construction fraudster; in: Frankfurter Rundschau from January 30, 2017, online

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 12.2 "  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 53.7"  E