Villa Berger

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The Villa Berger is a classicist villa in Witten on Ruhrstrasse 69. It is part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

history

The Villa Berger was built in 1839 by the steel entrepreneur Carl Ludwig Berger . In 1879, Louis Constanz Berger , the client's son, added an annex to the rear of the building. An annex built later was removed. The villa remained in the private ownership of the Berger family until it was purchased by the city of Witten in 1961. It has been a listed building since 1984. Until 2005 it housed the Witten local history museum , from 2006 to 2010 the city archive and since then the administration of the Kulturforum Witten .

architecture

The villa with its rectangular floor plan is located with the western main facade directly on Ruhrstraße, the north side borders on Husemannstraße. The 16.5 m wide and 10 m high main facade is symmetrically and clearly structured with two windows on the right and left and the portal in the middle. Above the two main floors there is a mezzanine floor with six smaller, symmetrically arranged windows.

literature

Frank Hagemeister: Villa Berger in Witten a / d Ruhr Ruhrstrasse 69, built in 1839 on behalf of CL Berger, elaboration on the building history of the architecture FH-Dortmund, library of the Märkisches Museum

Web links

Commons : Villa Berger - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
Villa Berger / Museum Park, Ruhrstrasse 69 - City of Witten

Individual evidence

↑ Anna Ernst: Your tip - our topic. Local museum. Not a new house. WAZ , June 26, 2013, accessed December 26, 2016 .

51.43436 7.33762Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 3.7 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 15.4 ″ E

[1] Anna Ernst: Your tip - our topic. Local museum. Not a new house. WAZ , June 26, 2013, accessed December 26, 2016 .