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The “Villa Bärenfett” is a log cabin “based on the North American model” in the garden of Karl May's former home in Radebeul , Saxony , at Karl-May-Straße 5 (previously Kirchstraße 5). As part of the Karl May Museum , it is now a listed building.
description
Karl May's widow and estate administrator Klara had a log house built for Patty Frank in the garden behind her house in 1926 . According to a design by the architect Max Czopka , winner of the competition against the local architect Otto Rometsch , a single-storey building was erected on a sandstone base with a gable roof and a dwelling . Patty Frank received lifelong right to live in this house, in return the Indian collector donated his collection to the Karl May Museum and became the museum's curator .
In 1927/1928 an extension was made in the same style to accommodate the Karl May Museum, which opened on December 1, 1928. Another extension, necessary because of the large number of visitors, was carried out by Max Czopka in 1935/1936. Patty Frank lived in the house until his death in 1959, and his wife lived for two more years.
Since 1985 the former residence of Karl May, the villa "Shatterhand" , has been used for exhibition purposes by the museum, especially on Karl May himself.
literature
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
- 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 .
- Klaus Hoffmann: On the history of the Karl May Museum, its Indian collection objects and their presentation. ( Online ).
- Wolfgang Seifert: Patty Frank - the circus, the Indians, the Karl May Museum . Karl-May-Verlag, 1998 (contains, among other things, excerpts from the correspondence that preceded the construction of the log house, as well as various ground and floor drawings)
Web links
- Entry in the Karl May Wiki (museum aspects)
- Photo of Villa Bärenfett (date unknown). ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Manfred Richter: Radebeul on historical postcards; from yesteryear.
Individual evidence
- ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Stadtlexikon Radebeul. Historical Guide for Lößnitz , second, slightly modified, edition 2006. p.201
- ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 21 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
- ↑ A Wild West log house is being built , in: On the history of the Karl May Museum ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 12 ″ N , 13 ° 40 ′ 24 ″ E