Villa Dittmar
The Villa Dittmar is a villa at Dittmarstraße 16 in Heilbronn in the style of historicism. The historic building is a listed building .
history
The historic building was built in 1881 by Hermann Maute for the knife manufacturer Theodor Dittmar. E. Bader painted the villa. It was built as one of the first residential buildings on the Lerchenberg, which was considered the most prominent villa suburb of Heilbronn around 1900.
In 1950 the villa was owned by the city of Heilbronn. It housed the price control point and the traffic department as well as a commissioner of the state police. An apartment was rented on the second floor. In 1961 the statistical office, the electoral office, the address book office and the educational counseling office were in the building. The second floor was still rented.
description
The two-and-a-half-storey building has a rusticated basement level and upper and lower storeys. Cornices, window gables, Doric architraves and friezes have been designed in the style of the German Wilhelminian era . The exceptionally stylish interior has been preserved in the original. The residential tower was in the style of Italian towers of the Renaissance built and shows the upper end twin windows and a pilastergeschmückten construction. It demonstrates "stately, cool design language" and "southern living flair".
Art historical significance
The villa represents "an outstanding document of the Wilhelminian style, stately residential architecture in Heilbronn. It is characteristic of the design language of the Italian country house architecture of the High Renaissance" . The building may have been built on the model of a Berlin villa at Königsberger Strasse 29 in Lichterfelde .
literature
- Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 88 .
- Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Silent contemporary witnesses. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lattner / Hennze, Stille Zeitzeugen ... , p. 32 and p. 33
- ↑ a b Fekete et al., Monument topography , p. 88
- ^ 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.
- ↑ a b c Lattner / Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen ... , p. 37.
- ↑ Lattner / Hennze, Stille Zeitzeugen ... , p. 33
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '3.6 " N , 9 ° 13" 49.8 " E