Villa Freytag
The Villa Freytag (also spelled “ Villa Freitag ”) is a former villa in Wuppertal - Elberfeld .
In the 19th century it was the summer residence on Friedrichsberg of the renowned Elberfeld jeweler August Freytag . The two-storey classicist villa on the then largely undeveloped Küllenhahner Straße 129 (from 1935 Rheinstraße 129 ) had three axes and a tower built on the left side. The house at Küllenhahner Strasse 139 was also owned by Freytag; it was inhabited by a gardener and a clerk .
The villa had a park that Freytag had looked after for a long time. He had stipulated in his will that this facility should be kept in the same condition for as long as possible after his death. He had also stipulated that the city would receive 5,000 marks from his estate. The interest should be used to buy more forest for the benefit of the Beautification Association . Freytag was a patron of the association during his lifetime, to which he has belonged since it was founded. He had made numerous donations to the association in order to purchase forest land.
At the beginning of 1908 the Freytag / Wechmar heirs offered the Villa Freytag, consisting of the residential building, the park and the high forest, with a size of 23 acres (around 4.9 hectares) to the city of Elberfeld to enlarge and round off the Friedrichsberg complex . The price was set by the heirs at 120,000 marks. The city accepted the offer after the beautification association had committed to a donation of 60,000 marks.
The property was handed over on October 31, 1908. On July 29, 1910, the second day of Elberfeld's three-centenary, the park was ceremoniously opened to the public. A crowd gathered and a stone plaque was unveiled on the retaining wall. The panel was designed and executed by the sculptor Louis Heitsch and bears the inscription :
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In May 1913, the painter Heinrich Phieler is mentioned as a resident of the villa. He was a specialist teacher for arts and crafts design at the arts and crafts school in Elberfeld and a member of the Deutscher Werkbund .
According to official information, Villa Freytag was destroyed in the air raid on Elberfeld in 1943 . On the other hand, contemporary witnesses reported at the end of 2018 that they had lived in the only slightly damaged building until the 1970s. Address books and aerial photographs also prove the existence of the building until the post-war period. Another contemporary witness came forward on the basis of this article and reported that the laying down took place in 1971 after the building had been renovated two years earlier.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg: Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal (= contributions to the preservation of monuments and the cityscape of the Wuppertal. Vol. 10). Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-057-8 .
- ↑ Werkbund (kunstnersetzungenlutning, Tyskland): List of members of federal offices, statutes of the German Werkbund . 1913 ( online ).
- ^ Attachments Friedrichsberg City of Wuppertal, accessed August 5, 2013
- ↑ a b Manuel Praest: The riddle about the Villa Freytag on the Fridrichsberg ; Article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung from December 20, 2018
- ↑ Article in the Westdeutsche Zeitung of January 8, 2019
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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 36 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 17.5 ″ E