Villa Huegel (Vienna)

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Villa Huegel (1867)
The Turkish salon in Villa Hügel, watercolor by Rudolf von Alt
The Japanese Salon, watercolor by Rudolf von Alt (1855)
The Villa Braunschweig (Braunschweigschlössl) built around 1875 as a branch
The hill park on Stoesslgasse in the 13th district with the baron's monument erected in 1901 reminds of Carl von Hügel , the important hortologist

The Villa Hügel was a villa in Vienna's 13th district , Hietzing , at today's address Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 40 / Auhofstrasse 15. It was named after the client, Baron Carl von Hügel . The property included a large private park that stretched on both sides of Hietzinger Hauptstrasse.

history

The imperial officer Carl von Hügel, who came from Regensburg , bought a park-like property in Hietzing in 1824 between today's Braunschweiggasse and Fleschgasse, which also encompassed considerable areas south of today's Hietzinger Hauptstraße (today Fichtnergasse, Larochegasse, Kupelwiesergasse). On the area north of today's Hietzinger Hauptstrasse, there were two buildings, built around 1800, on the site of the later Villa Hügel. It is not known whether Hügel had the buildings torn away or integrated them into his construction.

The villa was planned and built around 1840 by the court architect Johann Julius Romano vonringen . The villa was built at ground level in the Roman style and had no windows facing the alley, which caused an international sensation. The explorer's villa was the meeting place for naturalists. Plants, especially rhododendrons and orchids , which he brought back from his travels, he cultivated in his garden, which extended to the area of ​​today's Polish embassy. Many high aristocrats consulted Hügel before having their gardens laid out.

Von Hügel owned the villa for a longer period of time, but only lived here until 1848, since from 1849, when he was active as ambassador for Austria, he hardly stayed in Vienna. Eventually he sold the property to a Princess Wrede.

In 1854 Duke Wilhelm von Braunschweig bought the villa. The villa is known as an art object, as Rudolf von Alt painted one of his pictures in the villa in 1855 with the title The Turkish Salon, Villa Hügel, Hietzing . From 1866 onwards, it served as the domicile of the dethroned King George V of Hanover , who died in Paris in 1878.

After the death of George V in 1878 and the death of the Duke of Braunschweig six years later, the property passed in 1885 to the previous Crown Prince Ernst August (1845–1923), who is now Duke of Cumberland and Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and lived in Gmunden , Upper Austria , where he had Cumberland Castle built. He sold the villa to Adolf Ehrenfeld , the park was divided and given to several buyers.

Since 1892 the area has been part of the city of Vienna (13th district) after many suburbs were incorporated. In 1893 Ehrenfeld commissioned a number of modifications such as a water reservoir in a 13 m high tower. The construction work was carried out by master builder Josef Kopf , who also built the Braunschweigschlössel , which is still preserved today (at that time Villa Braunschweig ) (this villa was required by the Duke of Braunschweig as a dependance).

After 1890, large parts of the villa's park were parceled out; a southern Hietzinger main street of the area, the 1,894 created by the reality dealer Julius Frankl then Hietzinger Cottage Park and today's Hill Park , handed the City of Vienna. A monument to the baron has been there since 1901. In 1903 Ehrenfeld died. In 1912 the Villa Hügel was demolished. From 1912 to 1914 Robert Oerley built a representative villa (access from Auhofstraße), now a listed building, named after its first owner Villa Wustl; it was later divided into several apartments. (Oerley was President of the Vienna Secession and the Society of Austrian Architects in 1912/1913.) In Hietzinger Hauptstrasse, the iron garden fence that has been preserved shows which green areas belonging to Villa Wustl were later separated and built.

literature

Web links

Commons : Villa Hügel (Vienna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hietzing from the web service of the City of Vienna, accessed on March 26, 2009.
  2. ^ A b Gerd Pichler: The Polish Embassy in Vienna. History and construction history of the houses Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 42c and 42b. Message d. Republic of Poland in Vienna, 2004. Online at austriapol.com (June 2, 2004) , page 11, accessed on May 22, 2019
  3. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt :  Huegel, Karl Alexander Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 308.
  4. ↑ The Turkish Salon, Villa Hügel, Hietzing, Vienna on artnet.de , accessed on May 22, 2019
  5. ↑ Villa Hügel on hietzing.at , accessed on May 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ Villa Braunschweig on hietzing.at , accessed on May 22, 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 14.4 "  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 35.9"  E