Villa Haux
The Neue Villa Haux was built in 1908 by Egon Diemer in Ebingen (today a district of Albstadt ) according to the plans of the Stuttgart architects Richard Böklen and Carl Feil .
It is named after Kommerzienrat Friedrich Haux , who built the building on the site of what was then his jersey factory Friedrich Haux & Cie. erected.
Old mansion
When the company was founded in 1885, a functional company building was erected, which still had the character of a larger craft business. In front of the workshop was a three - story half - timbered house with offices on the ground floor, the owner's apartment on the middle floor and storage rooms on the roof.
As early as 1889 a large factory building was erected further east and an additional storey was added in 1897. In 1898 the front building of the old building was covered with bay windows and a neo-baroque stucco decoration and converted into a residential building, making it the first Villa Haux.
In 1901 the area was cut through by the valley railway . A wedge-shaped plot of land remained between the viaduct , the old Lower Suburb and the new, straight garden street. In order to create space for a larger new building on the company's own property, the old villa was relocated to this striking location in a spectacular building . This shift across the street happened in 1907 on railroad tracks.
New villa
In 1908, the New Villa Haux was built from yellowish sandstone on the cleared area in a mixture of historicism and Art Nouveau . “Connoisseurs appreciate the Villa Haux as a wonderful example of Art Nouveau in the transition from the playful Darmstadt to the stricter Viennese variant. It bears witness to a change in art and social history that took place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. ” The interior furnishings included wall paintings by Maria Caspar-Filser and Der Frühling by Christian Landenberger .
In the plans from 1907 that have been preserved, the Neue Villa Haux was still designed as a luxurious family home; the construction that was carried out was given a representative area largely separate from the living rooms through floor plan changes. The special equipment features included the electric passenger elevator and the stationary vacuum cleaner system . The house also had a central low-pressure steam heating system that ran on coal.
post war period
In 1945 the old villa was the Soviet headquarters for the repatriation of soldiers of the "Russian Liberation Army" who had been stationed at the Heuberg military training area since January 1945 . The new villa served as the French local command. The Haux family then lived in both buildings again until 1954. In that year, the old villa and its furniture were sold to tax advisor Hans Maute. In 1964, only the basement was sold to the pharmacist Rudolph Seis. Through wide wall openings, he set up business premises for his “bridge pharmacy” in the basement, which had become a full-fledged ground floor by lowering the streets. In the period that followed, he also renovated the upper floors and refurbished the supporting structures and the facade, in some cases using methods he developed himself, without affecting the external and internal appearance. Since 1991 the “Wirtshaus zum Trödler” has been housed in the old villa.
The Neue Villa was used until 1970 as a meter test center and official residence for the company's power station. After that it was empty and in 1988, after the textile factory was closed, it was for sale. It was acquired by the architect Rainer Malessa, partially renovated and sold as owner-occupied apartments and offices. Since 1994 the tax consultancy company Klaiber GmbH has been acquiring parts of the villa step by step, renovating them further and using them as office and living space. Today the representation rooms can be used for economic or cultural events.
Factory building
Next to the Haux villas is the former factory building (Haux building). Today, the Albstadt-Sigmaringen University of Applied Sciences has its laboratories, lecture and administrative rooms for the courses in technical informatics , textile and clothing technology and technical textiles on the ground floor as well as on the 1st and 3rd floors . On the 2nd and 4th floors there are several apartments funded by the Studentenwerk Tübingen-Hohenheim that are used as student apartments . The student cultural center Albstadt has been located in the basement since the summer semester of 2012, and is made available to the Student Initiative Albstadt eV by the Studentenwerk Tübingen-Hohenheim.
The garden area between the factory, villa, bridge and road was taken up by a parking garage.
literature
- Peter Thaddäus Lang: Albstadt - city between mountains and valleys. P. 7–11, here: P. 10f. In: Leaves of the Swabian Alb Association . 109th year. Issue May / June 3/2003.
- Gerhard Penck: The fantastic history of the mansions of Friedrich Haux. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-80300683-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ architecture. Villa Haux turns 100 . In: Südkurier of October 17, 2008
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 40 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 47 ″ E