Villa Gemmingen

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representative west view of the Villa Gemmingen
Pleasure garden
South front of the property
View over the farm buildings to the street
East view
Main entrance to the villa on Mörikestrasse

The Villa Gemmingen is a historistisches nobility - Palais at the Villas slope of Karlshöhe in Württemberg Baden- state capital Stuttgart .

The building has the shape of a late baroque pleasure palace . The entire property was built between 1910 and 1911 according to a design by the Stuttgart architects Albert Eitel and Eugen Steigleder , who based the landscaping on Italian terrace gardens of the Renaissance . The builders were Hauptmann a. D. and royal chamberlain Fritz Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1860–1924) and his wife Dora Freifrau von Gemmingen-Hornberg , a daughter of the Stuttgart chemical entrepreneur Gustav Siegle, who died in 1905 . Two older villas were demolished for the new building.

architecture

The villa is in an excellent residential area at the southern foot of the Karlshöhe on the property Mörikestraße 12. A long entrance leads from the street to the property, which is set far back. If the property is entered via the main entrance (driveway), the view soon falls on the southern broad side of the building, which alone already looks imposing. Due to the height difference to the street, the villa is already halfway up the Karlshöhe. Turned 90 ° to the west is the representative garden facade of the villa. The grandeur of the property can be seen here. The two- to three-storey building wearing a Mansard - hipped roof . The building has regularly aligned facades. The inner longitudinal-axial central tract has a spatial oval that is flanked by two side wings of different lengths.

The entrance and garden facade are symmetrically aligned. The central risalit of the garden facade is a semicircular round room, which is accessed via a curved, flat flight of stairs and has a domed roof . The side projections protrude and are supported on pillars . In front of it there is a large, stone-walled terrace with a swimming pool. The north side of the garden offers a walk under bright arcades. Similar to the Villa Bosch on the Gänsheide in Stuttgart , atypical designs were chosen for the style and floor plan of the property. The central risalit has a balustrade and various plastic jewelry. The property is of particular artistic importance due to careful design that penetrates down to the smallest details. Recognized visual artists such as Josef Zeitler , Emil Epple or Jakob Brüllmann completed the villa into a total work of art.

With its western front, the building is reminiscent of the two pleasure palaces Monrepos and Solitude built by Philippe de La Guêpière for Duke Carl Eugen .

Outbuildings and periphery

The villa can be reached by crossing the archway of one of several farm buildings. It is a staggered ensemble of buildings. There is the possibility of reaching the villa via a driveway or a staircase. A winding staircase leads from the driveway to the plateau of the gardens. On the east side you reach a fence that separates the property from one of the public entrances to Karlshöhe.

history

In the 18th century there were only a few small vineyard houses on Karlshöhe. The Oscar-Heiler- Staffel and the Willy-Reichert-Staffel still bear witness to the wine-growing character of the area. Only a few of the many splendid villa complexes built later have survived today. The Villa Gemmingen survived the Second World War unscathed and still has the original furnishings. After 1945 it was the seat of the occupying power, later the chief of police and finally the economic control service. When the property was threatened with demolition, it was preserved in 1982 through the renovation initiative of a community of architects. The Villa Gemmingen was subsequently the seat of the State Monuments Office for two decades (until 2002) and was passed on to authorities by the municipality of Stuttgart. The main focus was on the preservation of the property. Today the building is used privately.

literature

  • Casimir Hermann Baer: The house of Mrs. von Gemmingen in Stuttgart by the architects Eitel & Steigleder, Stuttgart. In: Moderne Baufformen , 12th year 1913, pages 43–64.
  • Christine Breig: The construction of villas and country houses in Stuttgart 1830–1930. An overview of the various implementations and changes in the villa building type in Stuttgart. 4th, revised edition, Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-89850-964-8 , pp. 55–56, p. 306. (= Publications of the Archive of the City of Stuttgart , Volume 84.) (also dissertation , University of Stuttgart 1998) ( limited preview on Google Books )
  • Albert Glück (Red.): State capital Stuttgart, buildings 1970/85. Munich 1984, page 7.
  • Gert Kähler , Erhard Hehl: Villas and country houses of the empire in Baden and Württemberg. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-421-05895-4 , S. #.
  • Wolfgang Kress (Ed.): 50 Years of the Stuttgart City Lapidarium. A garden full of charm and history. Stuttgart 2000, pages 54-58.
  • Harald Schukraft: Karlshöhe, Villa Gemmingen and Lapidarium. In: Elisabeth Szymczyk-Eggert: Gardens and parks in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1993, pages 48-53.
  • Werner Skrentny, Rolf Schwenker, Sybille Weitz, Ulrich Weitz: Stuttgart on foot. Silberburg-Verlag , ISBN 978-3-87407-813-9 .
  • Martin Wörner, Gilbert Lupfer, Ute Scholz: Architectural Guide Stuttgart. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-496-01290-0 , S. #.

Web links

Commons : Villa Gemmingen (Stuttgart)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Breig, p. 378 (see literature )
  2. ↑ Skrentny p. 250 (see literature )
  3. ↑ Architecture Guide Stuttgart, p. 79 (cf. literature )
  4. ^ Villa Gemmingen accessed on May 18, 2012
  5. ↑ criticism

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 2 ″  E