Villa Carl Knorr
The Villa Knorr , formerly also called Villa Lerchenburg , is located at Gutenbergstrasse 51 in Heilbronn and was built in 1897 for the manufacturer Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr . The raised, castle-like building is an example of the villa construction of late historicism .
history
Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr, head of the Knorr food company , acquired a large hillside property in Heilbronn-Ost on the so-called Lerchenberg. In the period from autumn 1897 to spring 1900 he had a stately villa built according to designs by the Berlin architects Johannes Vollmer and Heinrich Jassoy , who were restoring the old town hall in Heilbronn at the time . The construction costs amounted to 200,000 marks. The paintings inside the villa were carried out by the Charlottenburg decorative painters Paul Gathemann and Marno Kellner. There was a vineyard and an orchard with a summer house on Knorr'schem Grund near the villa.
In 1905 the Knorr family received Prince Rangsit of Chainad , son of King Chulalongkorn of Thailand, at their home . After the death of Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr in 1921, his second wife Antonie Clementine Knorr lived in the building. After her death in 1947, the villa came into the possession of Alexander Knorr , who lived in the neighboring Gutenbergstrasse 39. The employers' association for Heilbronn and the surrounding area and the Heilbronn district group of the Württemberg-Baden Metal Industry Association moved into the Villa Carl Knorr. In addition, director Hanns Renken, the freight forwarder Alfred Rahmer and other apartments lived there. In 1961, director Renken bought the villa. In addition to the offices of the two trade associations, only one apartment was rented. The villa was later acquired by a real estate company, which removed the historicist interior and replaced it with modern office furnishings. The building has been used as a private clinic since the mid-1970s.
description
The elevated villa is deliberately built with a view to the city. The Knorrwerk in Heilbronn-Süd can also be seen from the upper floor. In the art historical building inventory of the Heilbronn City Archives, the villa is described as follows:
“ The two-storey house, located in a large tree garden, has sandstone facades on all sides with ornamentation in Renaissance style. The wide, profiled eaves carry brackets that z. T. are designed as predator heads. The gables to the south, west and north have a curved outline and are decorated with volutes, obelisks and spheres and are each crowned by an animal with a coat of arms (including a lion and an eagle). On the gable facing west there are relief panels with rich leaf ornamentation and tendrils on the first floor above the windows. A large semicircular terrace with baluster parapet adjoins the west side on the ground floor, and a glazed veranda on the south side. "
The historicist garden house, built in wood and located to the east behind the villa, has been preserved, but now belongs to a neighboring property. The building Gutenbergstrasse 39/1, which is adjacent to the north-east, was the car garage that originally belonged to the villa and was later expanded into a stately single-family home. Carl Heinrich Eduard Knorr's son Alexander Knorr , who, like his father before him, had managed the food company for several decades until his death in 1978, lived in this house .
literature
- The Villa Knorr in Heilbronn. In: Berliner Architekturwelt 5 (1901), Fig. 233–239 (pp. 161–164): exterior view, floor plans, interior views; P. 179 ( online as PDF; 14 MB)
- Art historical building inventory of the Heilbronn City Archives 1975
- Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg Volume I.5 City District Heilbronn. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 . P. 95
Individual evidence
- ^ The Villa Knorr in Heilbronn. In: Berliner Architekturwelt 5 (1901) p. 179f.
- ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1950 , Heilbronn 1950.
- ^ City of Heilbronn (ed.): Address book of the city of Heilbronn 1961 , Heilbronn 1961.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 8.7 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 52 ″ E