Villa Gustav Röder

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The villa of the builder Gustav Röder is located at August-Bebel-Straße 23 in the original district of the Saxon city of Radebeul . In the 20th century it was inhabited by the writer and Karl May publisher Euchar Albrecht Schmid , who used the ground floor for the Karl May publishing house .

Villa Gustav Röder
Listed park

description

The listed villa , including the enclosure, stands on a spacious park plot on the corner of Goethestrasse , which is listed as a work of landscaping and garden design . In this park, a log cabin is still listed as a protected individual monument.

The villa in the style of the German Renaissance is a two-story residential building with an irregular floor plan. It stands on a rubble stone base and is covered by a slate roof with half-hip gables and dormers. There is also a tall pointed tower on the back of the building. The facades are plastered and structured by cornices. The windows are framed by sandstone.

In the park made of old trees there is an artificial ruin in the form of a grotto . The corner property is bordered by a quarry stone wall on which there are parts of quarry stone pillars, between which wooden fence panels with a deck board are suspended.

history

The architect and builder Gustav Röder (1862–1900) built a “residential building” for himself in 1896/97. After 1915, it was inhabited by the writer and Karl May publisher Euchar Albrecht Schmid (1884–1951), who used the ground floor for the Karl May publishing house . In addition, the villa was also the headquarters of Haupt & Hammon Verlagbuchhandlung and Retcliffe Verlag .

The wooden fence was built around 1915.

E. A. Schmid's sons Joachim (born 1922), Wolfgang (born 1924), Lothar (born 1928) and Roland (born 1930) grew up there. In a letter to Fritz Prüfer in January 1944, E. A. Schmid wrote:

“At Christmas we were lucky enough to finally see all of our four boys here together again. At that time Joachim was ordered from Königsberg to Dresden with the help of Lieutenant Colonel Ruckdeschel , where he is now ... doing office work and will presumably remain permanently. - Wolfgang had to go back to Jaroslau / Cracow at the beginning of January for further training as an officer candidate. - The 15½ year old Lothar has to arrive today for the home flak service. He continued to develop into a chess artist and recently won all 15 games at KdF , so that he became the local chess master. - The 13½ year old Roland still populates our house with magic tricks and even more piano and opera rehearsals. "

- Euchar Albrecht Schmid, January 14, 1944

And a year later in a circular to the friends of the Karl-May-Verlag:

“While we have not received any news from Wolfgang since the beginning of January, Joachim, who is to become my successor, was given a few weeks' leave and arrived one day after Ms. May's funeral (January 6th) to relax . [...] Lothar, who will be 17 years old in May, has been working hard for the whole of last year in a nearby flak and has to do his high school duties on the side. [...] By the way, this boy became Saxon Gauschachmeister at the age of 15½. [...] Roland, who will be 15 years old in May, fortunately still populates our house with music and magic tricks and has even performed several times in hospitals . [...] Our almost 21 year old Wolfgang has been on the Eastern Front for two years . "

The publisher interrupted the writing of his circular and finally continued it on February 5th with a shocking message:

“As far as I had announced my report about 10 days ago, we received a telegram on January 10th in the evening, according to which our son Wolfgang had died in a hospital in Sangerhausen / Thuringia. [...] My wife - accompanied by Joachim and Lothar - went to see him immediately [...]. The burial took place on February 2nd at the Heldenfriedhof in Sangerhausen, because it is not possible to transfer it here for the time being "

- Euchar Albrecht Schmid, end of January / 5. February 1945

Lothar Schmid started his chess career from Radebeul, where he won his first championship title during the Second World War and shortly afterwards. While the son moved to Bamberg in 1947 , the father stayed in Radebeul and was buried in the local cemetery in 1951 .

The architect Max Czopka modernized the villa in 1936 in the sense of "stylistic calming". In 1939 he built an additional farm building with an air raid shelter in the rear part of the property and in 1940 a log cabin, also listed as a guest house, as a guest house, just as he had built the Villa Bärenfett in the 1920s .

literature

Web links

Commons : Villa Gustav Röder  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 6th f . (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  2. ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 61–62 and accompanying map .
  3. ↑ Hans-Dieter Steinmetz: The Villa "Shatterhand" in Radebeul . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society, 1981. ( online version )
  4. ^ Address book Radebeul 1939, p. 109.
  5. ↑ Bernhard Schmid, Jürgen Seul (eds.): 100 years of publishing work for Karl May and his work 1913–2013 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 2013, p. 72 f.
  6. ^ Bernhard Schmid, Jürgen Seul (eds.): 100 years of publishing work for Karl May and his work 1913–2013 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 2013, p. 76.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 16.6 ″  N , 13 ° 41 ′ 6.7 ″  E