Villa Eugene
The Villa Eugen is a villa at Weilburgstrasse 103-105 in Baden near Vienna . It was planned on behalf of Archduke Wilhelm von Franz von Neumann and built between 1883 and 1886. It owes its name to Archduke Eugen , who inherited the villa in 1894. The building is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
Archduke Wilhelm (1827–1894) spent his youth on his father's nearby Weilburg and remained connected to the city of Baden (or the community of Weikersdorf ) throughout his life . Most of the time Wilhelm lived in the Weilburg during the summer, in the 1850s he moved to the Stöckl, which his brother, Albrecht (1817–1895) had built . From 1882 Archduke Wilhelm pursued his plan to build his own summer residence in close proximity to Weilburg (300 m), at the foot of the Kleiner Lindkogel . From 1883–1886 the villa was planned by Franz von Neumann (1844–1905) as a hunting lodge ; Under the supervision of the Viennese master builder, architect and stonemason Paul Wasserburger (1824–1903), the use permit was granted in 1886. In 1894 the property came as heir to Archduke Eugen (1863–1954), nephew of the deceased - and to this day the namesake of the large, irregular complex with two-story outbuildings.
Villa Eugen has been available for sale since July 2018.
architecture
The two-storey main building over sloping terrain (partly over a raised base basement ) is crowned by steep hipped roofs; it is characterized by risalites and towers, an open loggia at the southeast corner, light exposed brick wall surfaces and rich late-historical decor as well as, in the gable areas , by half-timbered and wooden elements . - The staircase and foyer on the upper floor have barrel vaults with rich netting ( plastered ridges ), hollow and cloister vaults and mostly stucco-decorated flat ceilings above a high valley .
The adjoining buildings ( location ) to the south, made of exposed bricks and marked 1884, are closed off by detached hipped roofs with numerous dormer windows . On the ground floor there are extensive stables with wide-span wooden coffered ceilings and utility rooms, and on the upper floor there are former service apartments. The entire area is closed off by a surrounding lattice fence with an entrance portal in the east (magnificent neo-baroque wrought iron portal with a crown above the initial “W” of the builder).
After 1945 the property fell into disrepair; In 1976 it was revitalized as a residential building. The generous expansion of the stable wing (accommodating 24 horses) into an event center did not have the desired success.
Web links
- Entry about Villa Eugen on Burgen-Austria
Individual evidence
- ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from February 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 17, 2018.
- ↑ (...) The so-called "Stöckl" is to be regarded as a new building (...). In: Badener Bezirks-Blatt , No. 15/1895 (15th year), February 20, 1895, p. 2, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Hermina Hasenauer: The villa architecture of Franz Ritter von Neumann with special consideration of the villa Archduke Wilhelm in Baden (1883–1886) . Thesis . University of Vienna, Vienna 2004.
- ^ Entry on Archduke Eugen Villa in Burgen-Austria , March 16, 2003, accessed on August 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Burg-Shopping" on the Internet orf.at, July 29, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018.
- ↑ Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 1, A to L . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 224 .
- ^ Bettina Nezval: Villas of the Imperial Era. Summer residences in Baden . 2nd, expanded edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85028-476-9 , pp. 94 .
- ↑ Viktor Wallner: Houses, people and stories - a Baden anecdotal walk . Ed .: Society of Friends of Baden. Baden 2002, p. 157 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 32.2 " N , 16 ° 12 ′ 16.7" E