Villa Hammelmann

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Villa Hammelmann

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 23 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 30.9 ″  E The Villa Hammelmann is a listed, former upper-class house in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , on the corner lot Louisenstrasse 120 / Wilhelm Meister-Strasse.

The villa was built together with the associated stable and coach house in 1892-1893 by Louis Jacobi , who as a secret building officer from 1856 to 1910 shaped the townscape of Bad Homburg like no other master builder with important buildings. The building, which is significant in terms of architecture and history, was built, along with the picturesque half-timbered coach house, as a spacious family seat for Heinrich Hammelmann . The villa stands out in the cityscape with its rich facade design and the polygonal corner tower with a bell dome on the street corner. In terms of style, the architecture is based on the Renaissance and Baroque; the well-preserved interior design with a representative hall, elaborate staircases, colored glazed windows and light domes, parquet and paneling is also baroque.

The garden, which consists of several districts, is laid out in a park-like manner with winding paths, lawns, rock gardens, woods and magnificent trees. The garden planning was based on the design of the historic spa gardens of Bad Homburg and was therefore also protected as a cultural monument.

In 1984 the city of Bad Homburg acquired the building, which it had already used as a tenant from 1973. The city housed the city archive, the hat museum and the local history museum there. After the city archives and museum had moved into the Gothic House , the property was acquired in 2002 by Sauerborn Trust AG (merged with UBS Deutschland AG at the end of 2004 ), completely refurbished in close cooperation with the monument protection authority and equipped with modern technical equipment. The Sauerborn Trust and UBS used Villa Hammelmann as a family office in which they managed and looked after the assets of around 100 families or family companies. This use ended with the construction of the new administration building Opernturm for UBS and the property was privately acquired by two Bad Homburg citizens, who moved into the very representative premises with their consulting, management and service group, which was founded in 1988 and based in Bad Homburg, in 2011 .

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