Villa Beck
The Villa Beck in Wiesbaden-Biebrich , Rheingaustraße 138, was designed by the architect Wilhelm Bogler between 1869 and 1872 . The first renovation was carried out in 1926 by Karl Henrici , and a second in 2005 by Hans-Peter Mallon .
history
The builder of the late Classicist villa was the clock manufacturer Hubertus Kreitz , who spent his retirement here. He settled in Saint Petersburg in 1837 , where he achieved world fame for the production of precious calendar watches. After his death , Ludwig Beck, an ironworking specialist and owner of the Nassauische Rheinhütte since 1869, bought this villa. It was here that he completed his major five-volume work, "The History of Iron", which received international acclaim. The eldest of his three sons, Carl Beck, became a doctor; the youngest, Wilhelm Beck , took over the management of his father's company as an engineer in 1908. After his death (1918) he became the new owner of the villa. The middle of the three sons, Ludwig Beck , opted for a military career in 1898, became a colonel general and executed as a resistance fighter in 1944. After Wilhelm Beck's death (1963), his only son, Walter Beck, ran the Rheinhütte until 1988 .
Today, Villa Beck is a stop on the Rhine-Main Industrial Culture Route .
Web links
- Information in the flyer Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main (PDF version; 382 kB)
- Day of the Route of Industrial Culture 2003 ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- 75 years of Mainz-Wiesbaden power plants PDF file (816 kB) ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- The Villa Beck in words and pictures
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 16.4 ″ N , 8 ° 13 ′ 51.5 ″ E