Villa Denis (Bad Dürkheim)

Villa Denis
South view
Data
place	Bad Dürkheim
architect	possibly Paul Camille von Denis
Client	Paul Camille by Denis
Architectural style	Late classicism
Construction year	1868

Northeast view

The Villa Denis was the retirement home of the engineer and railway pioneer Paul Camille Denis .

history

On August 23, 1866 Denis resigned - at his own request, he was 71 years old - as a civil servant from the active civil service of the Kingdom of Bavaria . A year later he also resigned from the position of director that he held at Bayerische Ostbahnen .

He was now preparing his return to the Palatinate, where he had spent many years and maintained numerous friendships and personal contacts. In Bad Dürkheim he bought a garden plot as early as 1864, and shortly afterwards the neighboring, built-up plot for 12,000 guilders each . He had the building on one of the lots demolished. In 1868 he built today's villa on the combined land , probably based on his own design. Here he spent the summers, while in the winter he lived with relatives in Strasbourg . Paul Camille Denis died in this house on September 3, 1872.

After the death of Paul Camille von Denis, the building was acquired by Kommerzienrat Carl Eiswein from Ludwigshafen am Rhein , and in 1901 it was sold to the Bavarian state , which housed various authorities here, the state building office and later the land registry office .

building

The villa stood in a garden and was one of the largest private houses in Bad Dürkheim. It is a two-storey, plastered, classical building that stands on barrel vaults. The building has 5 × 4 window axes. The structure consists of red sandstone . It is covered with a flat hipped roof from which roof houses protrude on three sides. The stairwell and the original room layout have largely been preserved.

The building is a cultural monument according to the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act . In the justification, particular reference is made to its urban development effect.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• Peter Karn, Rolf Mertzenich: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. District Bad Dürkheim 13.1 = City of Bad Dürkheim, community Hassloch, association communities Deidesheim, Lambrecht, Wachenheim . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995. ISBN 978-3-88462-119-6
• Wolfgang Kunz: Paul Camille von Denis - a picture of life . In: Yearbook for Railway History 21 (1989). ISSN  0340-4250 , pp. 5-14.
• Werner Schreiner: Memories of a railway pioneer - 140 years ago, Paul Camille von Denis , a resident of Dürkheim by choice and civil engineer , died in: Die Rheinpfalz , Bad Dürkheim, from September 1st, 2012; (Article as PDF document, with photo of the villa)

Web links

Commons : Villa Denis in Bad Dürkheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ↑ Today: Kurgartenstrasse 18.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kunz, p. 11.
2. ↑ Kunz, p. 12f.
3. ↑ Werner Schreiner : Paul Camille von Denis - European transport pioneer and builder of the Palatinate railways . Ludwigshafen 2010. ISBN 978-3-934845-49-7 , p. 109.
4. ↑ Kunz, p. 13.
5. ↑ Karn / Mertzenich, p. 62.
6. ↑ Karn / Mertzenich, p. 62.

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '42.9 "  N , 8 ° 10' 9.5"  E