Villa Hoffmann

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The villa with a view of the south gable, 2018
North gable, 2016

The Villa Hoffmann is an upper-class residential building in Halle (Saale) , Ernestusstraße 27. It was built between 1910 and 1911 according to a design by the Munich architect Richard Riemerschmid and is a notable example of reform architecture in Halle, which is a listed building . The villa is listed in the monument register of the city of Halle under registration number 094 04634.

location

The villa is on the corner plot of Ernestusstraße 27 / Advokatenweg in the Giebichenstein district of Halle . Ernestusstraße marks the historical border between the city of Halle and the village of Giebichenstein, which was incorporated into the municipality in 1900.

history

Building owner of the villa was the 1868 in Auerbach on the mountain road born royal Bergmeister Dr. Ludwig Hoffmann . After working as a mining foreman and mining area representative in Eisleben from 1906, in 1908 he was appointed General Director of A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke AG in Halle, one of the largest stock corporations in the Central German lignite mining area at the time .

In August 1909 he entered into negotiations with the well-known reform architect Richard Riemerschmid about the construction of a house. In addition, Hoffmann made contact with the architect Hermann Muthesius in Berlin to find out more about modern residential construction. In the end, however, he placed the order with Riemerschmid and gave him largely free rein in the planning, execution and furnishing of the villa. A house with around 10 rooms was to be built on the approx. 1200 m² corner property. In 1911 the house was ready to move into. The garden was also laid out according to Riemerschmid's design.

After Hoffmann's death in 1942, his widow initially continued to live in the villa until, after the war, the US-American and then the Soviet occupation forces occupied the villa. In the 1960s, garages were built in the farm wing and in the garden. Until the 1990s, the villa was used as an apartment building, which also involved numerous renovations. After years of deterioration, the villa has been inhabited again since 2016/2017, and in 2018 it was renovated by the owner .

Architecture and equipment

In contrast to the representative historicist villas in the neighborhood on Advokatenweg, Riemerschmid's architecture is emphatically matter-of-fact and simple. The L-shaped two-storey building with the steep pitched roof consists of the main house and the lower, east-attached side wing. The latter, with its asymmetrical roof landscape and the windows that appear to be scattered, was designed as a utility wing with apartments for the staff.

On the main house, which, on the other hand, gives a symmetrical picture, two dominant and differently designed decorative gables are particularly striking . The south-facing gable has a renaissance-like pilaster structure , while the gable on the north side with its simplified tracery takes up the late Gothic forms of the lower castle Giebichenstein . The steep gable roof is reminiscent of town houses from the Hanseatic era of Halle. Riemerschmid consciously took up local traditions and at the same time expresses the affinity of the owner with his city.

The objectivity of the building is softened by the polygonal roof bay and the balcony with the wrought-iron Art Nouveau grille. Because there is no ornamentation, the “material style” prevails; every building material should only have an effect on the overall picture through its structure and color. Simple folk-craft building traditions should enter into a symbiosis with sophisticated but comfortable living culture. Simplicity thus became a symbol of a modern attitude and a higher morality.

The furnishings and interior furnishings were also designed by Riemerschmid in line with an upscale bourgeois living culture. The rooms on the ground floor were given covings and simple ceiling decorations made of stucco as a transition from the wall to the ceiling , as well as some paneling made of spruce wood. The walls of the salon were covered with fabric wallpaper. The connection and the grouping of the rooms with each other were well thought out in accordance with the bourgeois lifestyle of its owner.

literature

Web links

Commons : Villa Hoffmann (Halle)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , pages 257-258
  2. ^ Hendrik Leonhardt: Hall. (= Country houses and villas in Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 1.) Aschenbeck Verlag, Bremen 2009, page 46.
  3. ^ Susanne Giesecke: Villa Hoffmann. In: Dieter Dolgner (Ed.): Historic villas in the city of Halle / Saale. Friends of the architectural and art monuments Saxony-Anhalt eV, Halle (Saale) 1998, ISBN 3-931919-04-8 , pp. 114–115.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 50.6 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 32.9 ″  E