Villa Boveri
The Villa Boveri is a listed neo-Gothic villa in Baden in the canton of Aargau . It was built between 1895 and 1897 by Karl Moser and Robert Curjel for the family of the industrialist Walter Boveri and is a cultural asset of national importance . The villa is surrounded by gardens, a combination of an English landscape garden and a neo-baroque garden that is rare for Switzerland . The villa is owned by the Asea Brown Boveri Charity Foundation (ABB).
building
The villa is located south of Baden's old town in the vicinity of the Ländli schoolhouse and the district building , on the edge of a slope that slopes down towards the Limmat . The building has a square floor plan and a mighty hipped roof , the facades are strongly designed with central projections , gables and loggias . In the basement the masonry consists of rusticated bosses , the two upper floors of quarry stones . The walls of the asymmetrically arranged windows are profiled with fine sandstone . Further Gothic ornamental forms can be found on the balcony parapets. A stairwell is built onto the south facade.
Building history
Walter Boveri founded the electrical engineering company Brown, Boveri & Cie. Together with Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown in 1891 . (BBC), now Asea Brown Boveri . In 1895 he commissioned the architect Karl Moser to build a villa for himself and his family. For this project, he chose a plot of land south of Baden's old town, i.e. at a relatively large distance from the company premises. This did not correspond to the previous practice of entrepreneurs who had built their director's mansions near the factory. The building, completed in 1897, was the first of four villas that Moser and Robert Curjel built in Baden for the founding and owner families of the BBC (next to Villa Langmatt , Villa Baumann and Villa Römerburg). The well-known garden architect Evariste Mertens laid out the garden .
Between 1900 and 1904, a garden house, an economic building and a covered riding arena were built according to plans by the Curjel & Moser office. Carl Sattler expanded the existing landscape garden in 1908/09 to include a neo-baroque garden, and by 1911 he also built a garden hall and a bathhouse. After the death of Boveri's widow in 1930, the villa stood empty for 13 years. In 1943 it became the property of the BBC and was converted into a clubhouse for social events for company employees. The swimming pool and tennis court were closed in 1955, and in 1982 the garden house, the utility building and the riding arena gave way to a new building. After the villa was placed under monument protection in 1976, an extensive renovation of the villa, garden room and bathing hall took place in 1994/95. The two surviving auxiliary buildings and the park have also been under monument protection since 1994.
Bathhouse
Garden room
Landscaped garden
Baroque garden
literature
- Eeva Ruoff: Two styles, one garden - the garden of Villa Boveri in Baden . In: Die Gartenkunst 3 (2/1991), pp. 293–306.
- Silvia Siegenthaler: The Villa Boveri in Baden . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History. Swiss art guide, volume 658 . Bern 1999, ISBN 3-85782-658-4 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '12.5 " N , 8 ° 18' 28.4" E ; CH1903: 665,534 / 258071