Villa Heine
The Villa Heine is a villa built in 1864/1865 in the classicism style in Halle (Saale) , today a listed villa , which is an important testimony to the early Halle villa construction of the Saale city. The villa is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04555.
location
The villa with the address Luisenstrasse 1 is located in the Nördliche Innenstadt district on the western corner of the property at the intersection between Luisenstrasse and Adam-Kuckhoff-Strasse. Luisenstrasse was laid out in the mid-1860s as a purely residential street and runs in the northern part of the former Luckenviertel from west to east. From this point on, the district developed into a residential area that was particularly preferred by university professors. In the immediate vicinity is the city high school built in 1867/68, today's Integrated Comprehensive School (IGS).
Building history
In the 1840s, the banker Ludwig Lehmann - with a foresighted view of future urban development - bought large parts of the area north-east of the gates of the old town on the "Lucke" in order to later sell it for a profit.
When the construction of the so-called Luckenviertel began around 20 years later and roads were built, the Halle master bricklayer and construction speculator Eduard Steinhauf acquired a plot of land in order to build a representative villa on it in 1864/1865 - with the aim of selling it afterwards. to build.
According to the Prussian Trade Act of 1849, building tradesmen were allowed to draw up drafts that were valid under the building inspectorate even without an academic education. In this context one did not shrink from mental theft either. At the time, well-known architects published extensive drafts of their projects in numerous building trade magazines, which were taken up and copied by building tradesmen.
The Halle villa built by Steinhauf is also a replica , namely that of the villa Viktoriastraße 14 of the important Berlin architect Friedrich Hitzig . Hitzig published floor plans and a perspective view of the house in the 1858 year of the “ Zeitschrift für Bauwesen ”. Hitzig's villa design was also intended for a corner plot. This may have moved the master mason Steinhauf to copy this villa - apart from a few rough details - true to the original in Halle according to the published plans. Steinhauf only managed to sell the house three years after it was completed. In 1868, the university professor of mathematics, Eduard Heine , acquired the villa as the first owner .
Architecture and equipment
The villa designed by Friedrich Hitzig is in the style of the so-called "Hellenic Renaissance". This style, a further development of Schinkel's late classicist architectural conception, is characterized by a lively grouping of the buildings, numerous extensions and extensions and a greater wealth of jewelry, which met the need for recognition of its clients.
The replica in Halle's Luisenstrasse is a two-storey plastered building with an original floor plan that seems irregular at first glance, but ingeniously adapted to the corner location. The basic figure is a rhomboid warped square, the sides of which follow the course of the road and the tip of which is directed towards the intersection. This point was cut off and the resulting area was upgraded to the main display side.
Two side wings, bent at an obtuse angle, extend from this central wing. On the street side, a beautifully proportioned semicircular arbor with Corinthian columns emerges from the central projection. A balcony with a cast iron railing is supported by the pillars . Behind it is a remarkable group of three arched windows, separated from each other by pilasters . The crowning gable triangle originally had a lost stucco decoration and an ornament made of acroteria .
The dining room and salon were located in the middle wing; in the wings living and sleeping rooms as well as the kitchen. The corridor and bathroom cabinet were housed in the spandrels. The upper floor was occupied by the master's office, as well as the children's, bedroom and guest rooms. The building was already completely basement; this was where the wash house, utility and storage rooms were located.
Further development
After the death of Eduard Heine in 1881 and his wife in 1896, their daughter Anselma sold the house and moved to Berlin. The new owner was the banker Paul Schauseil, who in 1907 had a small bay window installed on the back front . After his death, his daughter probably took over the house. It is unclear how long it remained in possession of the display rope.
After the Second World War, the villa became the seat of officers of the Soviet occupation forces . Significant maintenance work was not carried out during this and the following period. At times three families lived in the house; Hardly anything has been preserved from the original room layout.
Today the small corner villa is in good condition after a restoration. However, numerous forms of decoration, such as the relief of the gable field, have been lost and the facade design has been reduced.
Hitzig's model-giving Tiergarten villa did not survive the Second World War, but with the Halle Villa Heine an important example of bourgeois villa architecture - at the same time a testimony to the serial speculative architecture of the 19th century, in which copyright held little - has been preserved.
Others
One of Eduard Heine's four daughters, Anselma Heine , who became a well-known writer, also describes everyday life in her father's house in her memoirs "Mein Rundgang" published in 1926 and, because of its layout, compares it to a butterfly:
"The building with its two column balconies and the two wings curved backwards stood out from the green of the garden like a large white butterfly."
literature
- Kerstin Küpperbusch: Villa Heine. In: Dieter Dolgner (Ed.): Historic villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of Building and Art Monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , pp. 43–50.
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verl., Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 79.
- Hendrik Leonhardt: Halle (= country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1). Aschenbeck Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3939401766 , pp. 19-21.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 , p. 302.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 18.4 " N , 11 ° 58 ′ 23.4" E