Villa Hüffer
Villino Hüffer (it. Villa Huffero or villino Huffero ; villino = dt. 'Small villa') is a large villa in Rome . It is located on Via Nazionale near the municipal art gallery.
description
The villa is separated from the street by a fence and a wrought iron gate as well as a forecourt lined with palm trees. It is a neoclassical building with a 24 × 34 meter floor plan . The interior is decorated like a palace with marble columns and paneling.
The Villino is based on a design by the French architect Jules Antoine François Auguste Pelléchet (1829–1903). Pelléchet designed a facade that is more reminiscent of Paris than Rome. The ground floor consists of a series of arched entrance portals ; the first floor is main floor and living area, with typical French high and a tympanum winning windows. The central three windows are highlighted by Corinthian columns. This ensemble is reminiscent of the loggia of the Palazzo Borghese , in which Hüffer lived at the beginning of his stay in Rome. The second floor is less high than the first floor and has rectangular windows. The roof is, typically Italian, flat and without a sloping roof structure. The interior of the building looks like a stage set for the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata . In 1891, the sculptor Wilhelm Haverkamp created the group of boys set up in the entrance of the villa on the Corinthian chapter on behalf of Hüffer .
history
Wilhelm Hüffer (* 1821 in Münster , † 1895 in Rome) had the villa named after his name built between 1880 and 1883. The architectural style was based on the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At that time, Rome had only been the capital of Italy for a few years . Hüffer was offered the title of baron in Italy . He bought the property in 1879 and moved into the villa in 1883.
Hüffer began commercial training in Bremen in 1838 . In the early 1840s he went to Paris and worked there in the Pescatore trading house . From January 1, 1852 he became a partner in this trading house; its founder died in 1855. Hüffer got rich importing Cuban cigars . In the early 1850s he leased the French tobacco monopoly. His only child (Amalie) died in infancy. When the Franco-Prussian War broke out in July 1870 , he moved to Rome. In 1871, at the age of 50, Wilhelm transferred the business to his youngest brother Leopold. He followed his artistic inclinations and sat down u. a. for the restoration of the Trevi Fountain . In 1889 he founded the Hüfferstiftung orthopedic sanatorium in his native Münster. Wilhelm Hüffer was buried in Rome on May 5, 1895.
use
The building is managed by the Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI), a non-governmental, non-profit organization and can be visited by appointment. The owner has been the Banca d'Italia since 2001 , which uses it as its historical archive ( Archivio storico della Banca d'Italia ). The archive holds important documents on the former Italian currency lira and on Italian economic history in general, including an extensive library. In 2009 it was awarded the European prize for the best preserved economic archive.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le bellezze artistiche e architettoniche di Villa Hüffer
- ↑ The foundation idea of Wilhelm Hüffers ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 173 kB)
- ^ Giornata FAI di Primavera
Web links
- Visit to the Cigar King - Villa Hüffer in Rome (report by Thomas Migge on Deutschlandradio from March 28, 2010)
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 56 " N , 12 ° 29 ′ 23.3" E