Villa Heimchen (Hanover)

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"Construction: American balloon framework"; the villa Heimchen, built in 1890, was decorated with glass ornamentation and initially also had "American vertical sliding windows"
Villa Heimchen (2020)

The Heimchen villa is a villa on Alleestraße in the northern part of Hanover from 1890. At the end of the 19th century, it was the first US- style villa built in what is now Lower Saxony .

History and description

In light pressure by Römmler & Jonas duplicated photographs and two floor plans of the Villa

The Heimchen villa was designed by a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase , the architect F. Rudolf Vogel, around 1885, but it was not completed until 1890 for "[...] Captain Milinowski in Herrenhausen near Hanover, Alleestraße", temporarily at number 10 Arthur Milinowski, captain à la suite of the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich II." (3rd East Prussian) No. 4 , worked as a teacher at the Hanover War School and lived in 1892 at the new house number Alleestraße 7 . According to another account, however, it was the captain's wife, the American factory owner's daughter Harriot Ransom Milinowski, who commissioned the first “American House” in the then Prussian province of Hanover - and probably also the money for the property.

The two-storey building with a mansard roof and corner turret was constructed as a timber frame construction. The ground floor up to the parapet of the veranda and up to the top of the tower was made of rough rubble stone . The rest of the masonry was made of red bricks . The upper floor, on the other hand, was executed in natural brown half-timbering and had plastered surfaces with indented glass ornamentation . The verandah and building parapets were hung with red "tongue stones". The daylight originally entered the building through "American vertical sliding windows". The construction costs for the villa were around 30,000 marks at the time , or around 130 marks per square meter.

With reference to the building he erected, the architect and Hase pupil Rudolf Vogel published his book The American House , published in Hanover (see literature).

literature

See also

Web links

Commons : Villa Heimchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Villa "Heimchen" of Captain Milinowski in Herrenhausen near Hanover, Alleestrasse (built in 1890), plate 67 (2 photos, floor plans, elevation) , photomechanical reproduction of plate number 67 in Oswald Haenel's illustrated book Simple Villas and Country Houses ... , Dresden 1902, plate 67
  2. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Alleestraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 11
  3. ↑ a b c Lewis Randolph Hamersly, John William Leonard, William Frederick Mohr, Herman Warren Knox, Frank R. Holmes, Winfield Scott Downs: Milinowski, Harriot Ransom (in English), in: Who's who in New York City and State , Vol. 8, New York: LR Hamersly Company, 1924, p. 883; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b Reinhard Glaß: Vogel, Friedrich Rudolf in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , a research project initiated by the building historians Günther Kokkelink (†) and Monika Lemke-Kokkelink and Reinhard Glaß; on-line
  5. ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden , Department I, Part III: Alphabetical directory of authorities and institutions, residents and trading companies , p. 648; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the German Research Foundation

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 26.5 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 36.5"  E