Villa Gravenreuth

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Villa Gravenreuth on the Klausberg
Oblique aerial view of Klausberg with Villa Gravenreuth (1959)

The Villa Gravenreuth is a listed building in the municipality of Lochau , Vorarlberg , Austria on the Klause .

location

The Villa Gravenreuth is located at about 418  m above sea level. A. on the Klausberg on the western edge of the municipality of Lochau on the east bank of Lake Constance . It is around 1.8 kilometers to the center of Lochau and around 1.3 kilometers as the crow flies to the city of Bregenz . Lake Constance is around 26 meters below Villa Gravenreuth, around 70 meters to the west.

history

The family of the former Bavarian occupation commissioner Carl Ernst Freiherr von Gravenreuth acquired the Klausturm and the land around it in 1852. Instead of a farm next to the Klausturm, the Villa Gravenreuth was built in 1869/1870.

Villa Gravenreuth and the Klausturm, about 170 meters to the south, were owned by the jeweler Franz Halder († November 8, 1927) from Vienna from 1919 to 1928 and have been owned by the Huber-Sannwald family since 1928. The building was renovated in 1928/1929.

building

The building has a polygonal floor plan and is about 15 meters high (with the tower about 20 meters), 30 meters long and 18 meters wide. The main building is a free-standing three-storey, ocher-colored plastered object with a gable roof and there are simple corner pilasters suggested on the edges of the building . The main windows are made with sandstone frames. The tower has a very flat tent roof.

A striking feature of the building is the five-storey tower, based on a historicizing Italian style, as well as the lake-side central projection designed as a balcony . This two-story iron balcony in Art Nouveau style gives the front facade a certain lightness that a normal, fully developed central projection would not have.

The originally charming lattice windows were largely replaced by modern single-pane insulating glass.

The Villa Gravenreuth was planned by the architect Wilhelm Widmann as a summer residence. There was a house chapel in the villa , which was furnished in the Romanesque style by the Schruns painter Jakob Bertle . The chapel was closed in 1928/1929 on the occasion of the renovation and the chapel furnishings were given away.

Web links

Commons : Villa Gravenreuth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ObjectID: 1519, address: Klausberg 3 in Lochau.
  2. ↑ Born in Fluh near Bregenz.
  3. ^ A b Franz Goll: Lochau heute , year 12, 1992, no. 47, p. 182 f.
  4. ↑ Erwin Bennat: Municipal Chronicle Lochau , published by the municipality of Lochau 1986, p 196th

Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '5.5 "  N , 9 ° 45' 14.4"  E