Villa Haniel (Dresden)
The Villa Haniel is an upper-class residential building in Dresden , Leubnitzer Straße 7 in the Südvorstadt .
The Villa Haniel is one of the few remaining villas belonging to the Semper Nicolai School in Dresden . Particularly important is the high-quality, largely original interior fittings. The building is a listed building as a single monument .
Planning and construction
The Villa Haniel was built in 1868 according to a design by the architect Edmund Hanefeldt as part of the development of the Dresdner Südvorstadt, the so-called Swiss Quarter. Hanefeldt's design shows one of the architects Gottfried Semper and Hermann Nicolai (Semper-Nicolai-Schule) who were influential in the school, with a typical villa floor plan with 5: 3 axes, two full floors above a basement floor and a gently sloping hipped roof . The sequence of rooms is still aligned with the central middle room, which in the Villa Haniel is reduced to a small “antechamber” and is no longer over both main floors. The facade shows a simple, strictly historical design in the forms of the Neo-Renaissance .
In 1901 the villa was rebuilt and expanded for the former court opera singer Anna Sophie Haniel. The new building of a coach house and an opulent interior in the neo-baroque style date from this time . The stairwell was relocated because of its own music hall: the staircase itself consists of an elegantly curved iron supporting structure with white marble steps and a very artistically forged railing. The walls of the stairwell are completely lined with marble and multi-colored stucco lustro , which is supposed to be reminiscent of a staircase in the Semperoper . For this purpose, district heating was installed and a water-powered ventilation system for the kitchen. Anna Sophie Haniel also had a Roman bath built for her.
While the original interior from 1868 was largely reshaped during this renovation, the exterior of the architect Oscar Prüfer closely adhered to the historicist design. Only on the garden side was the facade redesigned with iron winter gardens and a large, now lost canopy.
In 1933 the villa with its two full storeys, the converted attic and the basement was divided into apartments. The villa survived the air raids on Dresden in 1945 relatively unscathed, and courageous residents are said to have disposed of an incendiary bomb that had not been ignited, so the memory.
During the GDR era, the villa deteriorated, much of the interior disappeared behind walls, was painted over or simply destroyed. Nevertheless, a considerable part of the version from 1901 remained - hidden - and could be restored.
The renovation was largely completed in 2004. Large parts of the historical interior, including high-quality work in marble and stucco marble , wall and ceiling stucco with original color, ceiling paintings and high quality wood illusion paintings have been restored or reconstructed. However, visitors still remember tapestries, the presence or whereabouts of which is or was unknown in 2014. In 2014 the villa accommodated four holiday apartments and three guest apartments.
Garden view of the Villa Haniel
Staircase in the Villa Haniel
Salon of the Villa Haniel
Music hall of the Villa Haniel
Ownership
The owner of the villa was CA Ihlenburg, a businessman from Dresden. After changing owners, including structural engineer Christian Otto Mohr , the villa was owned by the Haniel family from 1890 to 1930 . In 1896, however, the buyer Hugo Charles Haniel died and, in addition to his industrial assets, he also left the villa of his widow Anna Sophie Haniel, who was a few years older than him. She had the villa remodeled in 1901 and left it in 1922.
The villa itself was expropriated in 1983, and from 1996 the house was finally empty. In 2001, Peter Renatus Vogel acquired the villa with the associated 2500 m² property. Because of this lengthy restitution process, he was only able to start the renovation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Lars Kühl: Better than the Semperoper - The Villa Haniel showed itself yesterday for the first time since its renovation: The Dresdeners came en masse and were amazed at the magnificent luxury property. In: Sächsische Zeitung of September 15, 2014, p. 15.
- ^ Claudia Posselt: Stately hostel in the Swiss quarter . In: DNN of April 8, 2015, p. 11.
Web links
- History of the Villa Haniel by Peter Renatus Vogel (with excerpts from the building files of the villa), accessed on February 21, 2017.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 22.4 " N , 13 ° 43 ′ 15.6" E