Villa Clementine
The Villa Clementine is a villa in the style of historicism in Wiesbaden .
It was built from 1878 to 1882 by the architect Georg Friedrich Fürstchen for the Mainz manufacturer Ernst Meyer . The entrepreneur bought the property on the corner of Wilhelmstrasse and Frankfurter Strasse in 1877 for his wife Clementine , who died shortly before the villa named after her was completed. In 1888 the villa was in the spotlight of the world when the Wiesbaden prince robbery took place here. Meyer sold the building with its Roman-Pompeian elements in 1890.
In 1960 it came into the possession of the city of Wiesbaden. A short time later, there were urban planning considerations to sacrifice the construction of a car-friendly city . In 1965 the planning officer at the time, Ernst May , planned to build a subway station in their place . These plans were abandoned and in 1973 the city decided to use the villa for cultural purposes.
In 1978 the Hessischer Rundfunk shot parts of the eleven-part film adaptation of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks there . The villa has been used for events since the beginning of the 21st century, serves as a literary house and is the seat of the Wiesbaden press club. The Villa Clementine café is on the first floor. There are public bookcases both in the blue salon of the café and in the garden .
See also
literature
- Susanne Lewalter, Shirin Sojitrawalla; Kulturamt Wiesbaden (ed.): The literature house Villa Clementine in Wiesbaden. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7954-2310-0 .
- Eva Christina Vollmer: Villa Clementine (= Little Art Guide No. 1925). 2nd Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-7954-5647-9 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 49 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 43 ″ E