Villa Bosch (Heidelberg)
The Villa Bosch is a converted former upper-class residential building in Heidelberg , Schloß-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, which has long been a listed building and in 1997 it was added to the list of particularly worthy of protection monuments .
history
This prestigious country house and outbuildings was 1921-1922 on behalf of the Ludwigshafen chemical company BASF for its CEO , the chemist and Nobel Prize carrier Carl Bosch built.
After the Second World War , the Villa Bosch initially served the US armed forces as accommodation for high-ranking military personnel. For a short time General Dwight D. Eisenhower resided here as the military governor of the American zone of occupation . It later served as the headquarters of a Heidelberg company for a few years.
In 1967 the Süddeutsche Rundfunk (SDR) took over the villa to set up its studio in Heidelberg-Mannheim . In 1994 the SDR decided to sell the villa. The new owner was Klaus Tschira , who wanted to use the building as the headquarters for his planned foundation and had numerous restoration , renovation and modernization work carried out for this. Ultimately, in the middle of 1997, Villa Bosch was rebuilt in its historical appearance, at the same time with a highly modern infrastructure. Since then it has been the seat of the Klaus Tschira Foundation gGmbH (KTS).
The entire complex also includes extensive gardens and the garage house located a few pieces of land, in which the Carl Bosch Museum Heidelberg is now located. The former studio building of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in the garden of the Villa Bosch was converted into a modern, barrier-free conference center. In the Villa Bosch Studio events of KTS, European Media Laboratory, which now find Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and from external institutions instead.
literature
- Richard Henk: Heidelberg . Neuer Umschau Buchverlag, 1990, ISBN 3-9215-2446-6 .
- Bernd Müller: Architectural Guide Heidelberg. edition quadrat, Mannheim 1998, ISBN 3-923003-78-1 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 57 ″ N , 8 ° 44 ′ 4 ″ E