Villa Denis (Diemerstein)

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Villa Denis
View from the southeast

View from the southeast

Data
place Frankenstein (Palatinate)
Client Paul Camille Denis
Architectural style Italian style
Construction year 1845-1849

The Villa Denis was the country residence of the engineer and railway pioneer Paul Camille von Denis .

Geographical location

Wall design in the ballroom
Representation of the villa on a wall painting in its ballroom
Ceiling design in a salon on the upper floor

Paul Camille Denis left the villa at the foot of the ruins of the castle Diemerstein in Diemerstein one, part of Frankenstein in the Palatinate Forest (then Palatinate (Bavaria) , today Rheinland-Pfalz ) building, less than a kilometer from the train station Frankenstein (Pfalz) away, to the Palatine Ludwig Railway, which he built .

history

Paul Camille Denis had received the building plot including the castle ruins from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway. Among other things, he had built the Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth , the first German railway with locomotive operation. From 1845 to 1849 he built the villa on the property, the eastern part of the building that stands today. At the same time, Denis opened up the castle ruins above by means of a staircase carved into the rock and probably also opened it to the public.

As early as 1854 or 1855 he sold the system to the Mannheim banker Ladenburg , because Denis moved to the Bayerische Ostbahn as director . The Ladenburg family also used the property as a country estate and provided it with the amenities that city dwellers expected for their relaxation. This included a small park and a tennis court. On April 21, 1861, the Palatinate Gymnastics Association was founded in Villa Denis .

In 1907 the Ladenburg family added a western wing to the building. In 1925 the family sold the facility to the Evangelical Welfare Association in Kaiserslautern . The building was used as a retirement home under the sponsorship of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate . In 1995/1996 the wall and ceiling paintings were restored. In 2001 the villa was sold to a private person, who in turn sold it to the foundation for the University of Kaiserslautern in 2007 . She uses this as a conference center.

building

The villa built by Paul Camille Denis was kept in the "Italian style" with a late classicist interior. This also included wall and ceiling paintings in the Pompeian style , very similar to those in the Villa Ludwigshöhe , the king's villa in Edenkoben . Paul Camille Denis' successors, the Ladenburg family, also left this decoration untouched.

Today the building is a cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (Rhineland-Palatinate) .

See also

literature

  • Ferdinand Werner : Mannheim villas. Architecture in the squares and the Oststadt = contributions to Mannheim's architecture and building history 6. Wenersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-88462-289-6 , pp. 26, 28.
  • Werner Schreiner : Paul Camille von Denis - European transport pioneer and builder of the Palatinate railways . Ludwigshafen 2010. ISBN 978-3-934845-49-7 , pp. 87-91.

Web links

Commons : Villa Denis  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Was ennobled and the "von" in the name he received in 1852.
  2. ↑ According to § 3 Para. 1 No. 1a of the Monument Protection Act of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, cultural monuments [...] are objects from a bygone era, the evidence, in particular of intellectual or artistic creativity, of craftsmanship or technical activity or historical events or developments, [... ] and in whose preservation and maintenance or scientific research and documentation there is a public interest for historical, scientific, artistic or urban planning reasons - which applies to a villa of this structural quality, which is also a testimony to the early days of the railway.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kunz: Paul Camille von Denis - a picture of life . In: Yearbook for Railway History 21 (1989). ISSN  0340-4250 , pp. 5-14 (12).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Werner, p. 26.
  3. ↑ Palatinate Ludwig Railway Society: The Palatinate Railways and their surroundings. Consisting of twenty-eight picturesque views, text and map . Ludwigshafen 1854, p. 28.
  4. ↑ Schreiner, p. 89.
  5. ↑ Schreiner, p. 89.
  6. ↑ Werner, p. 28.
  7. ↑ Schreiner, p. 89.
  8. ^ Villa Denis - foundation house

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 38.5 "  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 42.4"  E