Villa Bonte
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| Data | |
| place | Darmstadt |
| Client | Felix Bonte |
| Architectural style | historicism |
| Construction year | 1888 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '42.9 " N , 8 ° 40' 18.2" E |
The Villa Bonte is a building in Darmstadt .
Architecture and history
The villa , named after the client, the Berlin banker Felix Bonte, was moved into in 1888. Bonte himself only moved from Berlin to his retirement home in Darmstadt in 1900 .
The architect of the property is not known. Stylistic details point to the architect Gustav Jacobi . According to tradition, Bonte designed the villa himself and built it with the help of a building contractor .
With the exception of the garden, the villa is quite well preserved.
Among the distinctive details of the villa include the elaborate facade decorated with cornices , consoles and parapet elements made of red sandstone , the distinctive roof landscape with turrets, resting on wooden consoles, as well as several images facade below the eaves .
Stylistically, the massive -looking building with its extended slate-covered roof belongs to the historicism phase . The contrast between the plastered facade and the natural stone that divides the two-story building is striking .
Monument protection
For architectural and city history reasons, Villa Bonte is a cultural monument .
The Villa Bonte today
Today the Villa Bonte belongs to the German Red Cross and serves as accommodation for the DRK local association Darmstadt-Mitte with the readiness , the mountain rescue service Darmstadt-Dieburg and the local branch of the youth red cross .
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 372.
Individual evidence
- ^ German Red Cross eV: Villa Bonte - local association Darmstadt-Mitte. In: cms.drk-darmstadt-mitte.de. Retrieved December 11, 2016 .