Villa Bayer (Berchtesgaden)
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The Villa Bayer in the Berchtesgaden market in the southeast of Upper Bavaria is a spacious property that was built in 1874 for the Prague merchant Josef Bayer, mostly with late Renaissance style borrowings . The building in Bayerstraße with house number 7 is registered with the file number D-1-72-116-11 in the Bavarian Monument List .
history
Josef Bayer from Prague had the splendid, stately merchant's villa built by the architect Warschek on the property of the Villa Grüneisengarten, which was then there . The start of construction was preceded by the careful removal and relocation of the previous building in Salzburger Strasse (as Villa Max), and the structure of the site was also changed. The architect was able to draw on a wealth of plastic jewelry and decorative shapes due to the builder's great fortune.
The street was renamed Bayerstraße in honor of the heiress Karoline Bayer (since the marriage Karoline Bosch), who went down in Berchtesgaden history as a benefactor. She sold the villa to her neighbor, the imperial ambassador Wilhelm von Schoen . However, the property did not stay in his possession for long, he sold it to the merchant Wilhelm von Riedemann . In 1938 the exterior of the villa was threatened by the planned expansion plan for the Hotel Berchtesgadener Hof on Reichenhaller Strasse. Immediately before the start of the Second World War , Villa Bayer was sold to the NSDAP for 70,000 marks . Until 1945 it served as a warehouse for party uniforms and pieces of equipment for the Reich Labor Service.
The building was then confiscated by the US armed forces and in 1947 it became the property of the Free State of Bavaria for use as living space . After fourteen years of ownership in the hands of the Steigenberger Hotel Company , it was returned to the Free State in 1971. In 1969 the market town of Berchtesgaden planned to demolish the property in order to be able to build a new tax office or apartments. After the villa was entered in the list of monuments, the project was abandoned. Between 1985 and 1987 the villa was expertly restored by the Traunstein District Building Authority so that it could be handed over to its new purpose as a police station for Berchtesgaden. The building continues to serve this purpose.
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architecture
The former residential building consists of two components joined together to form a T with half-hip roofs . On the east side there is a large polygonal two-storey bay window with a roofed basement at the end. The facades are structured by pilaster strips and cornices , the roofs have hip dormer windows and chimneys . On the slightly protruding west extension there is a loggia across the entire width . The gable fields and the knee stick have a wooden panel. The eastern south facade has balconies on both upper floors . The wooden window frames are designed in the rich late Renaissance style. A Madonna fresco by Severin Benz is attached to the western south wall between four windows, and a figure of Sebastian stands in an artfully framed niche on the north wall (with plant arabesques) .
Interior
The rooms and the staircase of the former merchant's villa are furnished with richly designed doors, inlaid floors and stucco decor as well as decorative stencil painting. The showpiece is the large ground floor level former dining room with its ornate wooden cassette ceiling and the elaborate wall panels, door and window frames and a bowl tile stove .
Outdoor area
In the park-like villa garden, in front of the south side of the building, is the terrace framed with a balustrade , in the middle of which there is a bowl fountain.
The south-west corner of the property is occupied by the former servants' building, a ground-floor flat-gable roof building with a central projecting and plaster structure, as well as a knee-high with ornamental framework .
Trivia
The police station at Villa Bayer has been one of the main locations of the crime series Watzmann since May 8, 2019 (shooting time of the 1st season July 17, 2018 to October 12, 2018)
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Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 36.9 ″ N , 12 ° 59 ′ 32.2 ″ E