Villa Festge
The Villa Festge is an upper-class residential building in Erfurt , Cyriakstraße 39. It was built between 1897 and 1899 and is a listed building .
History and architecture
The builder of the villa was Karl Festge (1845–1909), who is said to have acquired a considerable fortune not only as a professional photographer based in Erfurt since around 1870 , but also as a brickyard owner and property speculator .
The Cyriaksburg road in the southwest of Erfurt was one of the best places in town. The castle-like building was designed by the Erfurt architect Eduard Kayser . The house, which is characterized by terraces , open stairs and arbors , was decorated with rich sculptural decorations and crowned with a domed belvedere . The image program at from sandstone built façade has references to Festges life, so one is about camera shown. The villa was surrounded by a large park below the Cyriaksburg, sloping down towards the street . It thus reflected the self-image of the bourgeois upper class in the time of the empire .
The house was permanently occupied until his death. In 1912 the villa became the property of the lamp manufacturer Stübgen. In 1946 it was expropriated by the Soviet military administration and then served, among other things, as a guest house.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
- Steffen Raßloff : Small castle with a tower. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , Erfurt edition, from November 22, 2014. ( online version at www.erfurt-web.de , last accessed on January 26, 2018)
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 3.8 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 36.3 ″ E