Villa Frowein (Elberfeld)
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The Villa Frowein is a late classicist villa in Wuppertal - Elberfeld , Briller Straße 2, on the edge of the Luisenviertel .
The architect responsible for the design of the building is not known by name, it is said to have been a Berlin architect of French origin.
description
location
The two-storey villa was built in 1870–1871 as a free-standing building with an almost square floor plan in the late classicist style on the west side of the pleasure garden on the Brill , laid out in 1802 by Peter de Weerth . This former private garden is now considered Deweerth'scher garden known and is between Briller street Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and since 1934 extended on the north side of the villa Luis street in the residential district Elberfeld-Mitte of the district Elberfeld . In the further course of Briller Straße, which leads to the north, the villa district Brill joins to the west on the slope of the Nützenberg .
Exterior design
The building was designed with sandstone blocks in the basement and structured sandstone facades with continuous parapet cornices on the floors above. On the ground floor, the window frames have lintel cornices and baluster parapets; on the upper floor, they are more simply cut. Profiled window frames are tapered towards the top.
All four facades were designed with central and side projections , three of which are finished with a flat gable. These three gables have been supplemented with figurative decorations in the tympanum ; the original Central and Eckakroterien are not obtained.
The villa is covered with a flat hipped roof , which was originally enclosed in the higher area with a wrought iron railing. The railing was used for safety when cleaning the outer skylights , which provided central lighting for the stairwell, the vestibule and the attic rooms.
At the eastern corner of the building there is a terrace which was originally partially covered with a glazed iron structure.
The main entrance of the building is on the southwest side on Briller Straße and was changed when the street was widened. At that time, the cobblestone ramp for carriages (the only one of its kind in Elberfeld) was removed. As a result, in the opinion of the Lower Monument Authority, “... the proportions of the formerly more imposing street facade were negatively changed”. The entrance lies in the axis of the central risalit laterally bounded by pillars. Before the street was widened, it was flanked by columns in a Doric order , as they are still present on the upper floor today, which were then replaced by Tuscan pilasters .
Interior
The original interior is largely preserved. The entrance hall is designed in the form of an atrium with pillar templates, fluted pillars and pillars with beams and coffered ceilings in the classical style of the Ionic order . The staircase open to the side with ceramic flooring is equipped with a white marble staircase, which was originally provided with a cast iron banister with wooden handrail. The vestibule on the upper floor, like the staircase, is illuminated by a skylight opening. Fluted columns on a pedestal with a composite capital, which rests on a girder with consoles to support the volute ceiling , dominate the spatial impression in the vestibule. The floor was laid out with parquet , the walls are divided like pilaster strips into rectangular wall and base surfaces.
The representative interior rooms are accessible from the entrance hall. Here, the doors and windows with retractable shutters in the recessed inner window reveals and outer window shutters are largely preserved in their original condition. The parquet floors in the individual rooms are laid in different patterns.
The stucco ceilings are rated by the Lower Monument Authority as “particularly artistically excellent”. The ceiling in the northeast room on the first floor was made with ornamented round arch friezes and stitch caps . Another ceiling was made in Gothic style with beams and coves and the stucco ceiling in the adjoining room with a four-part rose window . Another room had a coffered ceiling with decorated ceiling ribs that rest on the decorated wall brackets of the entablature. The entablature is here decorated with egg rod and meander decoration. On either side of the open, marble-clad fireplace are fluted columns with a decorated column shaft on a square base. These columns have an Ionic capital that corresponds to the entablature in the room. On the wall opposite the chimney, columns, here without a chimney, are set up as a counterpart. The wall panels here were originally hung with mirrors.
On the upper floor, the stucco ceilings are generally kept simpler. An exception is the western corner room on the upper floor, here the ceiling of the room was equipped with a covering plant rosette. Remnants of the former gas lighting are partially preserved as pipe sockets in the rosettes.
history
The builder of the villa was the Elberfeld textile entrepreneur and Prussian councilor Rudolf Frowein (1836–1918) with his wife Elisabeth, née De Weerth (1840–1927). After 1900 they moved to the quieter district of Briller. Frowein was a partner in the silk weaving mill Frowein & Co. GmbH .
After the death of Rudolf Frowein's widow in 1928, the villa was sold to the city of Elberfeld, which housed the city's natural science collections there until 1933 . After that, the NSDAP used the building from 1938 to 1945 as the seat of the district leadership.
After the Second World War, until 1951 it was used jointly by the regional British railway-military administration and by the bridge , a communication center for the British occupying forces. In 1951 Briller Straße was widened, for which the former driveway was dismantled and the entrance area was changed. It was later used with the predecessor of the Volkshochschule Der Bund and the student dormitory.
| year | City expenses |
Grants from the country |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 87,568 DM | 30,000 DM |
| 1975 | 159,483 DM | 50,000 DM |
| 1976 | - | - |
| 1977 | 138,147 DM | 39,000 DM |
| 1978 | 139,013 DM | 41,704 DM |
| total | 524,211 DM | 160,704 DM |
From 1963 to 1996 it served as the main building of the Bergisches Landeskonservatorium , from which the Bergische Musikschule and the Wuppertal Musikhochschule (today a department of the Cologne University of Music and Dance ) emerged. In the 1970s, the interior was renovated, starting in 1974 with the entrance hall, stairwell and vestibule. For financial reasons, the renovation was divided into two phases. For the first time in the Rhineland, restoration methods were used that were previously reserved for buildings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Around 685,000 DM were invested in the four years.
In August 1987, the villa was a monument in the monument list entered. In the mid-1990s, there is a legal and tax consultant was firm down, and later a real estate management company.
Monument protection
According to a “local statute against the defacement of the city of Wuppertal” of January 31, 1931, the house belonged to the “special buildings placed under protection in the urban district of Wuppertal” early on.
The villa is also listed in the first list of monuments drawn up by the State Conservator's Office after the Second World War (1954).
With the Monument Protection Act, the villa was also one of the first buildings to be placed under protection in the second half of the 20th century. On August 5, 1987, the villa was entered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal. The interior design is explicitly included in the monument scope.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Gerd Bauer, Eberhard Grunsky: The former Villa Frowein in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege 36th year, 1978, issue 1/2, ISSN 0012-0375 , p. #.
- ^ Wolfgang Mondorf: Elberfeld district: Villa Frowein. ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
- ^ Michael Magner: Wuppertal-Elberfeld. Briller Viertel and Nordstadt. Sutton, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-89702-533-7 .
- ↑ a b Michael Metschies: Endangered - saved - lost. Fate of Wuppertal buildings. Born, Wuppertal 1982, ISBN 3-87093-031-4 .
- ^ Joachim Dorfmüller: Wuppertal Music History. Wuppertal 1995, ISBN 3-87093-074-8 .
- ↑ dr-liesegang.de/ ( Memento from May 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ladm.com. In: ladm.com. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
- ↑ MeridianusAdmin: | I | m | p | r | e | s | s | u | m | ||| | M | e | r | i | d | i | a | n | u | s | | G | r | u | p | p | e |. In: meridianus.com. Retrieved on February 14, 2019 (German).
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Villa Frowein on architektur-wuppertal.de
- From the residential palace to the work residence of Klaus-Ludwig Thiel (pages 162–163) , PDF file
- Villa Frowein on zimmerei-merten.de and music school sings the lament of decay , PDF file
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '14.6 " N , 7 ° 7' 57.4" E